Key skills
Stakeholder Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Responsible for the Governance of our key third parties delivering services across multiple functions.
- Lead end-to-end operational and strategic governance, ensuring appropriate oversight activities and measures in place.
- Provide guidance and support to others involved to ensure optimal execution.
- Serve as the primary contact within Development Operations and affiliated clinical development functions, if applicable, for Third Party (TP) level strategic relationships.
- Responsible for cross-Therapeutic Area Full-Service-Provider (FSO) third party oversight.
- Drive efficient and effective governance forums where clear outputs and decisions are made and reviews focused on improving and accelerating performance, optimizing opportunities, and mitigating risks.
- Collaborate with and across functions and business areas to translate information into key insights, proactively identify major risks and opportunities, and drive strategies and actions accordingly.
- Conduct internal and external operational cross-portfolio reviews, providing partnership updates, gathering team feedback on performance and resources, and assessing risks.
- Accountable for the full portfolio of services delivered by assigned Third Parties for clinical studies, ensuring timely execution and adherence to Master Service Agreements (MSA), Service Level Agreements (SLA), and Quality Agreements (QAg).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
- Prior Management and oversight of cross-functional FSO or FSP providers delivering a range of services (must include clinical operations).
- Experience of late phase Global Clinical Trial Management or Study Management gained in a pharmaceutical company or CRO.
- Proven experience in third-party management, vendor management, procurement or contracting.
- Experience working in a regulated environment within pharmaceuticals, biotech, or healthcare.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across functions and senior levels.
- Demonstrable track record of leading matrix teams and delivering operational improvements.
- Good analytical skills and experience using data to drive decisions and monitor supplier performance.
Benefits
- health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits
- paid holidays
- vacation
- paid caregiver/parental and medical leave