Associate Director, Clinical Operations Regional Head, Central Europe

Associate Director Clinical Operations

Associate Director Clinical Operations is the leadership position for country/region Clinical Operations under Clinical Services division in Novotech. This role is responsible for managing the day-to-day clinical operations from planning to implementing strategic clinical goals and objectives in their country/region clinical operations. This role leads strategic initiatives work with other functional management to develop clinical implementation process. It involves having functional responsibility over the operations performance, dealing with external issues relating to meeting client deliverables, project revenues, resource management, staff development and training.

Responsibilities:

Associate Director Clinical Operations

• Lead the Clinical Operations Management team by oversight of day-to-day operations for a clinical function.
• Set and drive the team’s annual performance review, development goals and KPIs.
• Oversight and resourcing to projects of clinical operations teams to ensure billable utilisation, realisation targets and individual metric targets per roles are met.
• Ensuring project delivery outcomes and high and first-time quality oversight on project delivery outcomes.
• Represent / advocate for clinical operations needs / resources at upper-level management.
• Implement best practices and standards for trial management in collaboration with other members of the clinical operations and services.
• Ensure clinical trials are conducted in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and are inspection ready.
• Identify and implement learning and development requirements of 1-2 layers of line reports in clinical operations for high standard performance.
• Contribute to the delivery and training of 1-2 layers of line reports in clinical operations.
• Work with HR & L&D to ensure training needs are met for all clinical operations staff.
• Ensure that all clinical operations staff have a safe and comfortable work environment.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience:

• Graduate in a clinical, pharmacy or life sciences related field.
• Experience and knowledge of end-to-end management of clinical trial conduct, knowledge of the clinical trial operations.
• Excellent organisation skills, ability to manage multiple tasks.

Associate Director Clinical Operations

• At least 10 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or CRO industry.
• At least 3 years in a management role.

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