Senior Clinical Trial Manager

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Senior Clinical Trial Manager to lead study delivery with cross-functional teams, ensuring compliant, on-time execution and risk mitigation across trials in Madrid. You will partner with CROs, vendors, and internal functions, oversee site evaluations, initiations, and close-outs, and contribute to CAPA processes in a dynamic, purpose-driven environment.

This role emphasizes collaboration and regulatory adherence in patient-centered outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Oversees and collaborates with study team members and cross-functional stakeholders, to proactively identify opportunities and manage and mitigate risks and to ensure timely and on-budget execution of clinical trial deliverables.
• Supports internal audit and inspection activities and contributes to corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), including leading the resolution of issues when appropriate.
• Monitors updates throughout a study’s lifecycle for compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures (SOPs), including contract research associate (CRA) compliance with study parameters and tracks escalation and closure of action items noted in monitoring visit reports during late phase studies including registration of protocols.
• Monitors progress of clinical trials and identifies and resolves any issues or risks that may impact timelines or study outcomes.
• Serves as the key operational contact for clinical studies, providing oversight for the site evaluation, initiation and close-out visits in addition to routine monitoring visits.
• Participates in contract research organization (CRO) and vendor selection and manages all interactions and deliverables from relevant CROs and vendors under the guidance of leadership.

Job description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, "Who are you working for?" - a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Key Responsibilities: Oversees and collaborates with study team members and cross-functional stakeholders, to proactively identify opportunities and manage and mitigate risks and to ensure timely and on-budget execution of clinical trial deliverables. Supports internal audit and inspection activities and contributes to corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), including leading the resolution of issues when appropriate. Monitors updates throughout a study’s lifecycle for compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures (SOPs), including contract research associate (CRA) compliance with study parameters and tracks escalation and closure of action items noted in monitoring visit reports during late phase studies including registration of protocols. Monitors progress of clinical trials and identifies and resolves any issues or risks that may impact timelines or study outcomes. Serves as the key operational contact for clinical studies, providing oversight for the site evaluation, initiation and close-out visits in addition to routine monitoring visits. Participates in contract research organization (CRO) and vendor selection and manages all interactions and deliverables from relevant CROs and vendors under the guidance of leadership.

How We Work Where you work matters - because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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