Senior Clinical Trial Manager (Office Based - South SF 3X/wk)

Senior Clinical Trial Manager

The Senior Clinical Trial Manager will lead, manage and co-ordinate the operational strategy, risk management, and overall execution of clinical trials from study start-up to close out at a global level in accordance with ICH-GCP and applicable local regulations. Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to ensure deliverables are met in terms of quality, compliance, budget, and timing. This role may work collaboratively on one trial or across several trials to support clinical operations activities. This position is based in our South San Francisco, CA office.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead and coordinate a cross-functional study team to ensure the clinical trial progresses as planned.
• Accountable for the overall operational strategy and delivery of assigned clinical trials; ensuring that study-level deliverables are met according to timeline, budget, and quality requirements.
• Participates in developing and finalizing cross-functional activities to ensure delivery of critical clinical trial documents.
• Drafts and implements study plans including; vendor oversight, risk, quality, safety, communication, trial monitoring, and TMF.
• Ensures TMF creation and QC completion.
• Supports EDC, IxRS, and CTMS systems and data maintenance.
• Tracks budget, timelines, milestones, and critical study activities, identifies issues and proposes potential resolutions.
• Accountable for the study budget and manages assigned vendor budget(s); communicates variances in actual versus forecasted spend in vendor budgets and presents an action plan for resolution.
• Drives the selection of vendors (participates in the Request for Proposal (RFP) process) on a global scale.
• Oversees delegated outsourced activities to ensure CRO and vendor delivery against the contracted scope of work.
• Leads the Investigator Meeting preparation and execution with the support from cross-functional team members
• Stays current on relevant therapeutic area knowledge and clinical research best practices.
• Ensures study adherence to ICH/GCP and company SOPs.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• Undergraduate degree in a scientific or health-related discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years relevant experience of which 5 years are clinical experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including 3 years in study management or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Ability to work across several time zones.

PREFERRED:

• Prior people management experience.
• Demonstrated ability in clinical study management processes and clinical/drug development.
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills; effectively deliver key messages; aptitude to independently communicate with teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively lead projects and persuade and influence peers; ability to build trusting and collaborative relationships globally.
• Experience with effective vendor management.
• Strong customer focus with investigators, functional peers, vendors, etc.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Working knowledge of international regulatory and ICH Good Clinical Practice guidelines.
• Maintains the highest standards of integrity and ethics.