Project Analyst

We offer integrated, comprehensive solutions that address complex technical, clinical development, and safety and regulatory challenges, leveraging our deep scientific, medical, and regulatory expertise and real-world experience. Our goal is to help you complete projects efficiently and with less risk, leading to solutions for a healthier and safer world.

With a broad range of renowned scientific, medical, regulatory, and engineering specialists under one roof, we streamline your project and reduce your workload, so you can make sound, science-based decisions about human and environmental health issues.

BlueRidge Life Sciences is a growing family of companies providing a comprehensive suite of life sciences services, spanning toxicology, regulatory science, risk assessment, epidemiology, biostatistics, engineering, clinical research, health economics, pharmaceutical commercialization, and environmental consulting. Across these specialized areas, we collaborate to deliver science-driven solutions that support industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, chemicals, foods and consumer products. Our collective expertise helps clients navigate regulatory requirements, assess safety and efficacy, manage risks, and optimize pharmaceutical commercialization strategies.

If you’re ready to achieve your life science goals, there’s no better partner than BlueRidge Life Sciences.  

Job Description:

SOME OF THE THINGS YOU'LL DO:

The Project Analyst reports directly to the Director Program Management and will develop, lead, and participate in the activities and duties noted below. This is a fantastic remote-based opportunity to help us establish Project Management across Blue Ridge Life Sciences - you will work together with the Director and other internal stakeholders to implement best practices and systems for our business and help lead us into an exciting future full of opportunity! This role serves as the organization’s subject matter expert for the professional services automation (PSA) platform, ensuring that programs are accurately set up, billed, and tracked, and that program data remains accurate and complete throughout the project lifecycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serve as the organization’s subject matter expert for the professional services automation (PSA) platform. Troubleshoot system-related questions and issues raised by users. 
• This role requires discretion and independent judgment on matters of significance, including resolving billing issues and scheduling dependencies, ensuring accurate revenue recognition, and recommending corrective action without direct, continuous supervision.
• Manage team member access to the PSA platform, including which team members are assigned to specific projects within the system. Provide training for new system users.
• Review and translate Statements of Work (SOWs) provided in Word format by the sales and execution teams into the PSA system, ensuring all tasks are accurately represented, resolving ambiguities in scope or billing terms in consultation with sales and technical leadership.
• Assess custom data fields and structure to ensure accurate transfer to Finance, ensuring configurations produce accurate downstream reporting.
• Obtain, update, and verify project percent complete in collaboration with project leads. Create program reports from system data to assess overall program health by reviewing time entries, descriptions, schedules, and task status. Review program health and progress with leads and escalate issues.
• Track resource utilization metrics and update program resources throughout the life of the program as changes occur.
• Design and automate recurring performance reporting for leadership, proactively identifying trends, risks, and anomalies, including configuration for automation.
• Analyze invoices prior to distribution, checking for accuracy, and identifying and resolving issues with project leads. Investigate time entry and billing discrepancies, and decide on appropriate corrective action in consultation with project leads. 
• Close out completed projects within the system and provide relevant data to the business unit to support lessons-learned reviews. 
• Identify and evaluate new PSA system features as the platform matures and trains the team on their use. 

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• 2+ years of experience in project management in the field of consulting utilizing professional services automation (PSA) system. Experience using Mavenlink / Kantata preferred.  
• BA/BS degree required, preferably in a technical field.  
• Direct experience administering a PSA platform (e.g., project setup, task configuration, time entry, and billing management). 
• Understanding of milestone-based and time-and-materials billing structures. 
• Strong conflict resolution and change management skills, with the ability to navigate competing stakeholder priorities and lead teams through evolving processes, systems, and program requirements.
• Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, and work as a dedicated member of a team.
• Exceptional writing skills, extremely well organized and strong attention to detail.
• Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with project leads, and project team members, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with absolute discretion.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel; familiarity with professional services automation software required. 

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Office Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.