Associate Director, Clinical Operations – FSP

Role Overview

• Supervises and coordinates Clinical Management functions, including mentoring managers in day-to-day activities and responsibilities related to the clinical deliverables.
• Ensures the clinical teams are provided with the necessary support and resources to successfully deliver clinical deliverables, e.g., oversees study start-up, monitoring and site management deliverables.
• At a country level, may liaise with other functional departments to ensure delivery of projects to clients and contribute to feasibility projects.
• Ensures the timely execution of clinical deliverables with a focus on quality deliverables.
• Develops and drives project or program strategies to ensure optimum performance and achievement of annual plans and targets.
• Facilitates meetings to identify potential risks and work with the clinical team to develop and communicate contingency plans.
• Ensures risks to clinical deliverables and potential solutions are communicated through appropriate escalation pathways.
• Reviews and assesses clinical project or program finances and ensures risks are escalated appropriately with any information necessary for a contract modification.
• Manages clinical management resource levels including hiring and promoting, as appropriate.
• Participates in resource calls and ensure teams are provided with adequate levels of appropriately qualified resources.
• Inducts new managers to PPD.
• Provides performance appraisals, evaluate and allocate bonuses and merit increases, as appropriate.
• Develops and motivates through goal setting, ongoing feedback, formal evaluation, and effective delegation of decision making.
• Ensures staff is trained and mentored according to company policies and procedures.
• Develops, implements and reviews key performance metrics.
• Manages the overall budgeting activity of the assigned group(s)
• annual and long range forecast.
• May participate in global and/or cross-functional initiatives and process improvement projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a life science related field.
• Previous experience in an FSP environment
• Project management experience 5+ years
• Significant clinical research experience (comparable to 10+ years) including remote and clinical monitoring and experience in all phases of study life cycle, including start up, interim and close out.
• Line management experience appropriate to the size and complexity of the clinical management group in the designated country/region.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Valid Driver's License.
• Valid Passport.
• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Professional development budget
• Home office setup allowance
• Global team events