Associate Director Clinical Operations - Central Europe

Novotech; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Novotech is seeking an Associate Director, Clinical Operations to lead day-to-day country/region clinical operations, aligning planning with strategic goals and ensuring compliant trial delivery. You will oversee a management team, drive KPIs, resource allocation, and training across clinical operations, partnering with HR and L&D to develop staff.

This role requires extensive experience in pharma/biotech/CRO and a strong track record in leadership.

Qualifications

• Graduate in a clinical, pharmacy or life sciences related field.
• Experience in end-to-end management of clinical trial conduct.
• Excellent organisation skills; able to manage multiple tasks.
• At least 10 years' experience in pharma, biotech, or CRO.
• At least 3 years in a management role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Clinical Operations Management team by oversight of day-to-day operations for a clinical function.
• Set and drive the team's annual performance review, development goals and KPIs.
• Oversight and resourcing to projects of clinical operations teams to ensure billable utilisation, realisation targets and individual metric targets per roles are met.
• Ensuring project delivery outcomes and high and first-time quality oversight on project delivery outcomes.
• Represent / advocate for clinical operations needs / resources at upper-level management.
• Implement best practices and standards for trial management in collaboration with other members of the clinical operations and services.
• Ensure clinical trials are conducted in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and are inspection ready.
• Identify and implement learning and development requirements of 1-2 layers of line reports in clinical operations for high standard performance.
• Contribute to the delivery and training of 1-2 layers of line reports in clinical operations.
• Work with HR & L&D to ensure training needs are met for all clinical operations staff.
• Ensure that all clinical operations staff have a safe and comfortable work environment.

Skills

Clinical operations management

Leadership

Project management

Regulatory compliance

Strategic planning

Education

Graduate in clinical, pharmacy or life sciences

Job description

Associate Director Clinical Operations is the leadership position for country/region Clinical Operations under Clinical Services division in Novotech. This role is responsible for managing the day-to-day clinical operations from planning to implementing strategic clinical goals and objectives in their country/region clinical operations. This role leads strategic initiatives work with other functional management to develop clinical implementation process. It involves having functional responsibility over the operations performance, dealing with external issues relating to meeting client deliverables, project revenues, resource management, staff development and training.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Clinical Operations Management team by oversight of day-to-day operations for a clinical function.
• Set and drive the team's annual performance review, development goals and KPIs.
• Oversight and resourcing to projects of clinical operations teams to ensure billable utilisation, realisation targets and individual metric targets per roles are met.
• Ensuring project delivery outcomes and high and first-time quality oversight on project delivery outcomes.
• Represent / advocate for clinical operations needs / resources at upper-level management.
• Implement best practices and standards for trial management in collaboration with other members of the clinical operations and services.
• Ensure clinical trials are conducted in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and are inspection ready.
• Identify and implement learning and development requirements of 1-2 layers of line reports in clinical operations for high standard performance.
• Contribute to the delivery and training of 1-2 layers of line reports in clinical operations.
• Work with HR & L&D to ensure training needs are met for all clinical operations staff.
• Ensure that all clinical operations staff have a safe and comfortable work environment.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• Graduate in a clinical, pharmacy or life sciences related field.
• Experience and knowledge of end-to-end management of clinical trial conduct, knowledge of the clinical trial operations.
• Excellent organisation skills, ability to manage multiple tasks.
• At least 10 years' experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or CRO industry.
• At least 3 years in a management role.

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