Clinical Regional Project Lead.

Psi; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Psi is seeking a Regional Project Lead who will oversee clinical operations across designated regions, ensuring milestones are met and ICH-GCP standards are followed.

The ideal candidate has a life sciences degree, US monitoring experience, oncology expertise, and proven leadership with strong communication, training, and budgeting skills.

You will coordinate site initiation, monitoring visits, regulatory submissions, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver studies on time and within scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in Life Sciences or equivalent
• Clinical research and on-site monitoring experience required
• Experience monitoring within the US
• Experience as Study Manager/Clinical Trial Manager with regional lead supervision
• Oncology experience required
• GI experience preferred
• Full working proficiency in English
• Proficient with MS Office, including MS Project
• Strong communication, presentation, and customer-service skills
• Ability to negotiate and build relationships at all levels
• Team building, leadership, and organizational skills

Responsibilities

• Oversees project team activities across designated regions
• Monitors site initiation, monitoring, and closeout visits
• Manages budgets, site payments, and regulatory submissions
• Leads risk assessment, issue escalation, and KPIs
• Coordinates training for Investigators and study staff
• Ensures compliance with ICH-GCP and Sponsor QMS documents
• Prepares and reviews study planning documents and manuals
• Maintains communication within project team and support services
• Reviews site visit reports and ensures data and query resolution

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Leadership

Team building

Organizational skills

English proficiency

Education

Life Sciences degree

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

Job description

Job Description

The Regional Project Lead is a senior level clinical trial manager who oversees, manages, and coordinates activities of project teams in designated countries and ensures consistency of Clinical Operations processes across regions. They ensure meeting study milestones are met by the project team on a country and regional level.

• Ensures planning, implementation, and management of projects in compliance with industry regulations, ICH-GCP, essential study documents, and applicable controlled documents (e.g., PSI QSDs or Sponsor QMS documents)
• Acts as primary or secondary project management contact for the project team and PSI support services in designated countries
• Performs study status review and progress reporting (if delegated by the Project Manager)
• Collects and reports project status updates for designated regions, both internally and externally
• Develops and updates project planning documents, essential study documents and project manuals/ instructions
• Manages and reports on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for designated countries and clinical project team members
• Ensures that the project timelines and subject enrollment targets are met in designated countries
• Coordinates maintenance of study-specific and corporate tracking systems
• Coordinates site contractual startup and budget negotiations
• Establishes communication lines within the project team and supervises clinical project team members’ performance
• Identifies, escalates and resolves resourcing and performance issues
• Conducts and supervises therapeutic area training of the project team (if delegated by the Project Manager)
• Prepares presentations and conducts training of Investigators
• Ensures team compliance with project-specific training matrix
• Performs field training of Monitors tailored to the project needs
• Supervises preparation, conduct and reporting of site selection, site initiation, routine monitoring and closeout visits
• Oversees investigator and site payments, as well as CRF data retrieval/ upload and monitoring and the query resolution process
• Supervises project team preparation for study audits/ inspections and resolution of audit/ inspection findings
• Coordinates conduct of supervised monitoring visits
• Reviews site visit reports and ensures monitoring and reporting standards are met
• Coordinates preparation of initial and follow-up Regulatory and Ethics Committee submissions and notifications
• Oversees the safety information flow and participates in feasibility research
• Reviews/approves project related expenses and timesheets (if delegated by the Project Manager)

Qualifications

• College/University degree in Life Sciences or an equivalent combination of education, training & experience is required
• Prior experience in Clinical Research and on-site monitoring is required
• Prior experience monitoring within the US
• Experience as a Study Manager/Clinical Trial Manager with the ability to supervise project activities as a Regional Lead or equivalent is required
• Experience in Oncology is required
• Experience in GI is preferred
• Full working proficiency in English
• Proficiency in MS Office applications, including MS Project
• Communication, presentation and customer-service skills
• Ability to negotiate and build relationships at all levels
• Team building, leadership and organizational skills

Additional Information

Advance your career in clinical research, coordinating a variety of tasks and learning new things while growing with a rapid growing company that puts its people first.