Associate Director

Associate Director - Clinical Central Services and Innovation

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The Clinical Central Services and Innovation (CCSI) organization orchestrates solutions that strategically enhance clinical research awareness and accessibility while increasing diversity, reducing burden, and speeding trial execution. This group partners across functions within Clinical Design, Delivery and Analytics (CDDA) and Product Research and Development (PRD) to influence trial design and operationalize innovation solutions to support the execution of clinical trials globally for all business units across all phases of development.

The Associate Director (P4), Clinical Central Services, and Innovation (CCSI) ensures operational excellence in the design and delivery of clinical capabilities including but not limited to mobile health care, clinical emerging technology & digital solutions, telemedicine, virtual trial orchestration, new site models, central services and/or digital device management. This role is responsible for coordination of third-party relationship management in support of these capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Understand business strategies, processes, technology, and device management as it relates to clinical services and capabilities.
• Serve as domain expert to ensure data, process and/or technology capabilities are optimized across the CDDA.
• Maintain strategic alignment for clinical services across functional and therapeutic areas.
• Develop and implement strategies to expand and/or evolve capabilities to accelerate and/or increase accessibility within clinical research.
• Continuously maintain a state of inspection readiness. Participate and perform duties required for internal and external inspections as well as supporting institutions/investigators and alternative site locations in inspection readiness initiatives.

Project Management

• Drive adoption, improvement, shared learning, and process expertise across global business partners.
• Develop critical success factors for pilots/projects and monitor progress to ensure clear criteria exists to enable decision making.
• Identify, monitor, and communicate global customer (internal and external) needs/requirements related to process and/or technology performance and improvements.
• Lead organizational change, communication planning and training initiatives.
• Provide guidance and consulting into forecasting and expense management.
• Identify project implementation risks and raise issues appropriately.
• Facilitates issue management.
• Lead progress reporting activities and metrics.

Partnership

• Foster inclusion, innovation, and promote diversity.
• Partner closely within teams to effectively plan, forecast, and manage the portfolio and project work.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (i.e., Quality, Privacy, Legal, , Procurement, Clinical Trial Foundations) in support of the portfolio.
• Manage relationships with third party organizations (TPOs), contribute to oversight of TPO performance and establishment of associated metrics across the portfolio.
• Partner with TPOs to improve customer experience and monitor performance.
• Provide coaching within the organization that fosters inclusion and innovation, continual improvement, and an external awareness and understanding.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience in project management, clinical drug development or a health care related field.
• Knowledge of emerging health care related services and capabilities for clinical research.
• Knowledge of country regulatory guidelines/requirements for clinical research conduct.
• Demonstrated ability to implement strategies to improve processes and capabilities.

Other Information / Additional Preferences

• Strong networking, interpersonal and relationship skills with demonstrated ability to work in teams, across organizational boundaries and achieve results through others.
• Flexibility to adjust quickly to changing business priorities.
• Good interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong business insight.

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