Associate Director, Clinical Operations – FSP
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Associate Director leading clinical operations for Thermo Fisher’s PPD FSP CRO services. Managing clinical teams, deliverables, resources, budgets, and global project performance.
Responsibilities:
- Manage, select, train, coach, and performance-manage Clinical Team Managers, Clinical Managers, and/or Clinical Administration for a specified geography
- Functionally manage Clinical Team Managers and/or Clinical Managers to ensure successful execution of clinical deliverables on assigned projects
- Direct clinical project objectives at regional or global level within cost, time, and quality requirements
- Represent Clinical Management in global and/or cross-functional initiatives
- Supervise and coordinate Clinical Management functions and mentor managers in day-to-day clinical deliverables
- Ensure clinical teams have support and resources for study start-up, monitoring, and site management deliverables
- Liaise with other functional departments at country level to deliver projects and contribute to feasibility projects
- Ensure timely, high-quality execution of clinical deliverables
- Develop and drive project or program strategies, annual plans, and targets
- Facilitate risk meetings and develop and communicate contingency plans
- Escalate risks, solutions, and clinical project or program financial issues appropriately
- Manage clinical management resource levels, including hiring and promoting
- Participate in resource calls and ensure adequate qualified resources
- Induct new managers to PPD
- Provide performance appraisals and evaluate and allocate bonuses and merit increases as appropriate
- Develop and motivate staff through goal setting, feedback, evaluation, and delegation
- Ensure staff training and mentoring according to company policies and procedures
- Develop, implement, and review key performance metrics
- Manage annual and long-range budgeting and forecasting for assigned groups
- Participate in global, cross-functional, and process improvement initiatives
- Work in an office environment, occasionally drive to site locations, and travel frequently domestically and internationally
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in a life science related field
- Previous experience in an FSP environment
- 5+ years of project management experience
- Significant clinical research experience comparable to 10+ years, including remote and clinical monitoring and all phases of the study life cycle
- 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
- Excellent oral/presentation and written communication skills in the native language and in English
- Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting and fiscal management
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical development regulatory guidelines and Directives
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization
- In some cases, an equivalency consisting of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may be considered sufficient
Benefits:
- Collaboration and development opportunities
- Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
- Benefits and privileges of employment
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