Jennifer Gruhn
Project Manager / Project Lead at ICON
- Role
- Project Manager Team Lead at Icon Biotech
- Location
- Durham, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jennifer Gruhn
Seasoned clinical trials professional with over 10 years in Clinical Research experience.…
Experience
Project Manager Team Lead
May 2022 — Present
Acts as primary liaison with client. Understands and manages client contractual, organizational and relationship needs/expectations. Chairs and leads customer meetings, acts as lead contact for regional-level matters and/or as primary project manager. Provides regular reporting on project metrics, status of deliverables and risks/issues with the associated management plan to client. Leads and directs cross-functional team and third parties/vendors. Able to conceptualize and articulate dynamic operational strategies, then mobilize project teams to those strategies. Communicates project-specific priorities. Contributes to development, maintenance and approval of project plans. Guides and supports team leads in prioritizing, trouble-shooting and contingency planning. Liaises with functional leads/managers to optimize performance and utilization of project team members. Manages project contractual deliverables. Proactively identifies risks and issues through ongoing review of project progress and metrics and implements adequate follow up actions to ensure mitigation/ resolution is in place and adherence to the contractual agreement. Leads presentation of internal project status reviews and is accountable for action item follow up.Manages project costs. Ensures that project team resource allocations are in line with budget and to achieve deliverables. Proactively identifies, negotiates and executes contract modifications ensuring out of scope activities are approved upfront via a contract modification. In cooperation with the project analyst, applies efficient management of project pass-through costs and investigators payments. Assumes project leadership role in compliance to PRA processes and systems including escalation to relevant functional and operational management. Participation and attendance in bid defense process. Mentoring of other members of the project management team or functional leads, as required
Education
Bowling Green State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2006 — 2010
Bowling Green State University Bowling
Master of Science (M.S.)
2010 — 2012
Bowling Green State University
Master of Science - MS
2010 — 2012
University of Colorado at Denver
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
2012 — 2014
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