Strategy and Management
Project Management
Recruiting experienced talent is a challenge for emerging life science companies. Our experts can serve as an extension of your team, driving the development, regulatory, and commercialization activities of your technology.
Drive performance with a proven process.
CSSi LifeSciences is a global contract research organization (CRO), dedicated to successfully advancing drugs and medical device technologies from discovery to commercialization. We provide fully integrated and customized solutions to help life sciences clients reduce risk, time, and cost, increasing their chances of success.
Integrated Project Management
CSSi LifeSciences provides all the relevant consulting and embedded management capabilities required to support drug and medical device development from discovery to commercialization. We offer partial or fully integrated solutions to meet your needs by blending deep subject matter expertise with decades of scientific, technical, and project management experience. Our approach is based on understanding your unique needs and challenges and crafting an integrated development plan to meet them.
On-Demand Development Team—A Proven, Flexible Model
The development of a novel drug or medical device requires numerous experts from diverse fields working together during product development. Unfortunately, assembling an expert team can be prohibitively expensive for small companies who are forced to bring in individual consultants as the needs arise. This approach typically leads to disjointed tasks not aligned with the product strategy, or a development strategy that does not consider the numerous phases that are appropriate for the stage of development. Therefore, many virtual and emerging growth companies are looking for the help and experience only an accomplished CRO and consulting group can provide.
CSSi LifeSciences has a dedicated team ready to help you accelerate your product to commercialization. Our consultative, problem-solving approach is based on first understanding your unique challenges and then crafting a milestone-based and flexible plan to achieve your goals. We utilize a stepwise approach that is appropriate to each phase of development.
Some of the program management and strategy services we offer include:
Project Management Services
Our experienced project managers oversee and coordinate the various activities involved in advancing a novel drug or medical device from discovery to commercialization. This includes developing project plans, setting timelines and budgets, and monitoring progress to ensure the project stays on track and meets its objectives.
Services include:
- Developing a risked-based strategic road map
- Gap assessment
- Establishing key performance indices (KPI)
- FDA Agent services
- Project plan and Gantt
- Project management and reporting
- Budgeting and vendor contracting
- Staffing and talent acquisition
- Investor management and exit planning
We use a variety of project management tools and techniques to monitor progress and ensure the project stays on track and meets its objectives.
Vendor Sourcing and Management
We offer a range of services to help clients with vendor sourcing and management, including:
- Supplier qualification
- Request for proposal (RFP)
- Contracting
- Quality and supply agreements
- Supplier risk assessment
- Procurement and logistics
Our goal is to help clients build and maintain strong relationships with their vendors and ensure they are working with a diverse group of suppliers who can meet their needs.
