Clinical Monitoring Unit Lead (Clinical Operations Leads)

Responsible to plan, manage, organize, evaluate, and/or report on the day-to-day delivery of the Clinical Monitoring unit.

The role includes policy and process development and improvement, product quality, site and compliance monitoring, staff resource planning, and staff and contractor performance management.

Provide support, expertise, and represent project and clinical monitoring teams with sponsors/researchers throughout the project life cycle.

Ensure all team members, including third-party providers, deliver high-quality, timely service and maintain service delivery processes in accordance with corporate and industry best practices and regulatory requirements and guidelines.

Project Planning

• Working in conjunction with clinical monitoring and project leadership team members, identify, develop, plan for, monitor, approve, and/or report on project-specific processes and services related to site selection, clinical monitoring, ICH-GCP compliance issue resolution, and global project harmonization, including SOP and QS document maintenance, periodic site visits, and collaborating with IT support to meet sponsor requirements on a timely basis.

Customer Service Delivery

• Represent and support the Clinical Monitoring teams with internal partners and external Sponsors to identify areas of improvement, address sponsor/site concerns, and integrate new technologies and processes.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, industry best practices, and organizational goals and targets are met and/or exceeded.

Team Management and Engagement

• Manage members of the Clinical Monitoring teams, ensuring functional areas are adequately staffed with qualified personnel, providing ongoing support to staff in the areas of work allocation, resource planning, training and development, technology, process development, expense management, employee engagement, and performance management (staff role development, evaluations, performance improvement, and lost time management).

Third Party Contract Management

• Identify, procure, and manage Clinical Monitoring (Clinical Operations Leads) Independent Contractor services, including needs assessment, recruitment, contract negotiations, corporate and sponsor policy compliance, training and development, cost monitoring, and performance management, ensuring corporate, industry, and regulatory service level guidelines and regulations are maintained.

Product/Service Delivery Support

• Provide expertise, developing tools to support project teams and business development in the areas of clinical, site, and compliance monitoring and performance during the project life cycle starting from the bidding process through to reporting project findings to sponsors.

Qualifications

• The successful candidate should have a College Diploma/University Degree in a relevant field (Health Sciences, Life Sciences preferred, or SoCRA and/or ACRP Certification/Designation) and a minimum of 4-6 years of related experience, plus substantial ongoing training.
• Experience in managing CRA staff and ability to provide training and/or mentorship to colleagues on a 1:1 basis or in a meeting setting.
• Ability to work in a remote global capacity.
• Strong knowledge of appropriate regulations and guidelines as they pertain to clinical monitoring and GCP.
• Team player that has a customer service approach and is solution-oriented.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.