Clinical Operations Manager

AbbVie Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in Sydney is seeking a Clinical Operations Manager on a 12-month max-term contract. You will lead a team of clinical research professionals across Australia, guiding delivery of priority programs with quality, pace and impact.

Responsibilities include people leadership, resource planning, site engagement, and collaboration with investigators and cross-functional stakeholders to advance AbbVie's pipeline.

Qualifications

• Minimum experience leading clinical research teams.
• Experience coordinating with investigators and sites.
• Ability to manage resources and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the clinical research team to drive priority programs across Australia.
• Provide leadership and oversight to the team, including site visits and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Proactively identify training needs and opportunities to improve performance and KPIs.
• Utilize systems to address performance, mitigate risks, and ensure on-time delivery of studies.
• Ensure audit and inspection readiness and support site/country audits and CAPA implementation.

Skills

People leadership

Clinical operations

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Lead people. Strengthen site partnerships. Help accelerate clinical research.

AbbVie is looking for a Clinical Operations Manager to join our Sydney team on a 12-month max-term contract.

You’ll lead and develop a team of clinical research professionals while helping drive the delivery of priority clinical programs across Australia. Working closely with investigators, research sites and cross-functional stakeholders, you’ll remove barriers to execution, strengthen capability and help ensure studies are delivered with quality, pace and impact.

With exposure across people leadership, study delivery, resource planning, site engagement, feasibility and operational improvement, this is an opportunity to make a visible contribution to both our clinical research team and AbbVie’s pipeline.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the hiring, retention, performance management, mentoring, task assignment, growth, and development of their clinical research team.
• Provide leadership and oversight to the clinical research team including, but not limited to:
  • performs accompanied site visits (on-site and off-site)
  • accelerates AbbVie's priority programs through close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
  • conducts trend analysis and gap assessments to proactively identify training and developmental opportunities for assigned personnel and broader team
  • addresses gaps effectively to help assigned personnel achieve country and site level KPIs and metrics.
• Utilizes AbbVie systems and tools to proactively address performance and mitigate risks and issues. Proactively identifies individual needs of their team members, removes obstacles, proposes solutions, and tailors support to enable successful, on-time monitoring and / or delivery of their assigned study activities of their assigned studies.
• Supports, trains and oversees assigned personnel to ensure that they maintain audit and inspection readiness at assigned sites/studies. Prepare and follow up on site and country audits, CAPA preparation and implementation.
• Accountable for resource management for assigned team. Provide ongoing assessment and input towards resource needs and in allocating resources in alignment with AbbVie's research goals, priorities, and specific study timelines. Proactively identify and communicate issues impacting resource allocation and provides solutions.
• Accountable for the budget management and payments of the assigned studies conducted by their assigned team, as applicable.
• Leads and supports the team to understand the business strategy and vision. Supports team to connect strategy to execution and promote collaboration with stakeholders to effectively deliver pipeline.
• Drives and implements change through effective communication and management.
• Creates an inclusive environment to enable team members to reach their full potential. Helps team connect strategy to execution and promotes collaboration with stakeholders to effectively deliver pipeline.
• Partners with research sites with high levels of coordinated and impactful site engagement with KOLs, National Leads, Principal Investigators and site staff positioning AbbVie as the partner