Associate Director - Clinical Delivery Capabilities

Position: Associate Director - Clinical Delivery (CD) & Clinical Delivery Capabilities (CDC), Exploratory Medicine and Pharmacology (EMP)

Contract Length: 12 month fixed term

Position Overview

Provides supervision, leadership and technical/process expertise for associates and managers within EMP, while leading cross therapeutic area (TA) strategic projects.

Primary Responsibilities

• Coach and lead associate team members to ensure study start up, planning and execution are delivered on time, within budget and to quality standards.
• Maintain accurate planning databases and ensure inspection readiness for all study teams.
• Escalate portfolio issues and coordinate with TA pillars and compliance teams for timely resolution.
• Manage resource needs, trade offs and priorities across therapeutic areas.
• Facilitate clinical function discussions to manage priorities and address unplanned demands.
• Maintain curriculum maps and training programmes, identify new learning opportunities and lead training on study start up processes.
• Promote consistent use of GCP, SOPs and best practices across clinical research activities.
• Lead cross TA standardization and efficiency projects and apply innovative solutions in real time.

Process Improvements

• Generate and implement new processes to enhance productivity, quality and site/participant experience.
• Support team members in sharing new learning opportunities or technologies.
• Encourage use of metrics data for portfolio status monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Partner with other supervisors to clarify process steps and handoffs.

People Management and Development

• Recruit, develop and retain a diverse and highly capable workforce.
• Ensure individual training plans are robust and completed on time.
• Support talent identification, career development and succession planning.
• Recognise and reward high performance and innovation.
• Manage workload based on portfolio prioritisation, regional requirements and individual expertise.
• Coach and mentor department personnel and cross functional members to foster development.

Leadership

• Collaborate effectively with colleagues at all levels and lead through others.
• Employ problem solving, persuasion, influence and negotiation skills within a matrix environment.
• Champion learning agility, strategic thinking and the incorporation of new insights.
• Provide constructive coaching and feedback to co workers.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• 5+ years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry with direct experience managing clinical studies, ideally in exploratory and biopharmaceutics clinical development.
• Strong knowledge of regulations, guidelines and GCP.
• Effective cross cultural and virtual work environment experience.
• Influencing, problem solving and root cause diagnosis skills.
• Strong organisational, interpersonal and self management skills.
• Leadership and networking abilities.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Travel up to 10% expected.

Additional Preferences

• Post graduate degree or advanced knowledge in exploratory biopharmaceutics clinical development preferred.
• High level end user computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations).
• Science or health related bachelor's degree a plus.

Benefits

• Hybrid working options.
• Healthcare, pension and life assurance.
• Subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies and on site parking.
• In house People Development services and educational assistance.
• Well being initiatives such as 'Live Your BEST Life'.

EEO and Accommodation

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