Product Expert - Clinical Operations

Socket.dev; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Veeva Systems in Europe seeks a senior professional with life sciences Clinical Operations experience to drive customer success across our Clinical Operations products family.

In this role you will build engaged user communities, represent the product in meetings and events, capture customer needs, and translate them into actionable product work.

You will collaborate with field teams, educate customers, and contribute to release planning, while traveling up to 25% and operating across time zones.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Clinical Operations domain, with product management or consulting experience.
• Translating business requirements into product requirements.
• Experience with customers from business users to execs, in-person or remote.
• Strong English communication.
• Interest in AI and its application to clinical ops.

Responsibilities

• Be the product evangelist and SME for Veeva Clinical Operations products.
• Champion enhancements and stay updated on features, strategy and roadmap.
• Contribute to best practices and process recommendations.
• Engage with customer stakeholders to communicate roadmap.
• Provide product education in meetings and online communities.
• Gather, analyze, and prioritize customer feedback.
• Collaborate with Product teams to deliver content and release communication.
• Provide cross-functional product expertise to internal teams.

Skills

Clinical Operations

Product Management

Client/Stakeholder Engagement

AI / Digital Transformation awareness

Requirements Elicitation

Tools

CTMS

eTMF

Study Start-up

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva is looking for a highly motivated individual with life science industry experience within the Clinical Operations (Clinical Trials) domain to drive customer success with our Veeva Clinical Operations products family in Europe.

1. Build and foster highly engaged Users Communities; regularly communicating with them in a range of forums to provide clear and impactful communication that drives shared understanding & education, promotes product adoption, and delivers customer value
2. Represent the Product organization in customer meetings, online communities, with internal team education and at industry events – driving increased customer value through release education and product capability promotion
3. As a Voice for the Customers, capture and relay their needs (and industry-specific learnings) to our Product Management team based across the US, helping them to inform product decisions and improve designs that ultimately create better Clinical Operations products that enable:
   • AI & Digital transformation
   • Risk-based decision making
   • Regulatory compliance
   • A culture of continuous improvement
   • Operational excellence across the pharmaceutical industry
4. Develop rich relationships with key product users / influencers
5. Collaborate effectively with Veeva field teams to drive customer success, product excellence, best practices (Good Vault Practice) and Veeva success!

This role is ideal for someone passionate about Clinical Operations and associated processes, eager to collaborate with customers, and excited to drive their success.

What You'll Do

• Be the product evangelist and provide subject matter expertise for the Veeva Clinical Operations products
• Act as a champion for Veeva's key product enhancements (for example, learning the overarching Veeva AI vision to effectively guide customers through their AI transformation journeys together with Veeva colleagues). Stay up to date with the latest features, strategy and roadmap
• Contribute to best practices and process recommendations within the Veeva Clinical Operations product area
• Engage with customer stakeholders to communicate product roadmap and vision
• Provide product education to Veeva Clinical Operations customers in meetings (in a range of forums) and our online communities (Veeva Connect); Ensuring we are communicating the problems we are solving, value delivered and product functionality
• Be the customer advocate internally. Gather, analyze, and prioritize customer feedback. Feed these insights into release planning, contributing to future product innovations
• Collaborate with Product teams to deliver valuable content and resources for product and release communication
• Provide cross-functional product expertise to internal teams, including Services, Strategy, Sales, and Product Support

Requirements

• 5+ years working in the Clinical Operations (Clinical Trials) space, usually in Product Management, Consulting or Professional Services/Implementation roles and with hands‑on experience of associated software tools (e.g. CTMS, eTMF or Study Start-up) and associated operational processes
• Ability to understand customer business requirements and to translate them to technical product requirements, preferences, and limitations – communicated to both business and technical stakeholders
• Ability to understand Product Vision, Technical Specifications and Software Development Documentation, and translate them into language and content relevant for end users and business teams
• Experience in interacting with customers from business users, IT departments, and executive suite, as well as internal teams, both in‑person and remote (including software demonstrations and presentations)
• Strong analytical skills and English skills (written, verbal, and formal presentations)
• A strong passion for emerging technologies (specifically AI) and the ability to quickly grasp, articulate, and conceptualize how AI-driven features solve real‑world clinical operations problems (including some exposure to AI in driving efficiencies in your existing role and/ or optimizing workflows)
• Self‑directed team player with a positive attitude
• Willingness to travel up to 25%
• Based in Europe (with ability to work across time-zones)

Nice to Have

• Veeva Clinical Operations Products experience
• Fluency in another European language
• Creating engaging videos with familiarity with Video Recording software (e.g. Camtasia)
• Experience with Risk Management in the Life Sciences domain

Note: Veeva will consider applicants from European countries where Veeva has representatives.

Interviewing with Veeva

We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect.

• If moving to the interview stage, the process is as follows:
  1. A conversation with the hiring manager
  2. A practical case exercise
  3. A final conversation with our group's Senior Leader.
• Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.

Compensation

• Total compensation: 80,000 - 160,000 EUR
• The total compensation range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential total compensation range for this role. Please note that actual total compensation may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position's total compensation may be composed of other types of compensation, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].