Clinical Project Manager (f/m/d)

Schwabe Group

Job Description

Über Dr. Willmar Schwabe

From Nature. For Health. Dr. Willmar Schwabe ist der weltweit führende Hersteller pflanzlicher Arzneimittel. Als Familienunternehmen mit über 150-jähriger Geschichte und weltweit rund 4.000 Mitarbeitenden stehen wir für Produkte von außergewöhnlich hoher Qualität. Um die Gesundheit von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt zu fördern, setzen wir auf moderne Forschung, Kundenorientierung sowie kompetente und motivierte Mitarbeitende.

Department Clinical Research
The Clinical Research team is responsible for the implementation of all clinical research projects, from planning to reporting. Projects comprise clinical trials as well as all types of non-interventional healthcare research.

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Clinical Project Manager (f/m/d)

Location: Karlsruhe, Baden
Company: Dr. Willmar Schwabe
Division: Research & Development
Start: 01.01.2026
Type of employment: Full time
Time limit: Fixed-term employment relationship


  • Clinical Study Project Management: Take full responsibility for clinical trials in the role as sponsor and of non-interventional healthcare studies in fully outsourced model, steering scope, timelines and budget while safeguarding patient safety and data integrity.
  • Completed Study Documentation: Consolidate, finalize and archive the documentation of a recently closed trial, ensuring inspection-readiness.
  • SOP Development & Governance: Create, revise and harmonize study-related SOPs, translate regulations into practical guidance and roll out targeted training to all involved functions.
  • Cross-functional Leadership & Compliance: Align research, quality, regulatory, legal and commercial stakeholders, consider interests and inputs from patients, investigators, and clinical experts, ensure compliance with all legal requirements, and resolve issues proactively to keep every project milestone on track.

  • Professional qualifications: You hold a degree in a scientific or health care discipline, such as medicine, pharmacy, biology, biochemistry or equivalent. Alternatively, you are qualified through relevant experience.
  • Experience: Professional experience in clinical research project management (pharmaceutical industry or contract research organization) are an asset, but we are also open for structured and well-organized graduates.
  • Skills and competencies: Strong project management abilities and skills in MS Office. Knowledge of ICH GCP, other relevant ICH guidelines and the European laws and guidelines regarding clinical research are an asset.
  • Personal strengths: As a clear communicator, team player, organized multitasker with a proactive mindset and the confidence to lead in complex environments you dispose of a structured, flexible, and solution-oriented working style.
  • Language Proficiency: Fluent in English and German – both are essential for internal and external coordination.
  • Willingness to relocate to the South-West of Germany.

  • Compensation: competitive compensation including bonus payments, occupational disability and retirement insurance.
  • Work-Life-Balance: 40-hour week with flexible working hours, 30 days vacation plus four additional days off.
  • Health and well-being: Occupational health services, sports activities (e.g., yoga), and fresh meals in our cafeteria.
  • Learning and development: Access to our academy and external training providers.
  • Additional perks: Free parking, fitness and leisure discounts, and a welcoming family-business atmosphere.
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