Research Manager - ISM, Surgery

Mount Sinai; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai is seeking a Research Manager to lead the Department of Surgery's research portfolio, overseeing administration, regulatory compliance, financial management, and trial operations.

The role partners with Principal Investigators, staff, institutional offices, and sponsors to ensure compliant, efficient, and financially sustainable management of investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored research throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in sciences or related field required.
• Minimum 5 years in hospital/medical environment with 1 year supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversees day-to-day research operations across clinical and translational studies.
• Manages research finance including budgeting, invoicing, and sponsor payments.
• Ensures regulatory compliance and manages IRB submissions and amendments.
• Acts as Clinical Trial Manager for start-up, activation, enrollment, and closeout.
• Collaborates with investigators, staff, sponsors, CROs, and external partners.
• Develops and improves SOPs, workflows, and QA processes.
• Monitors timelines, milestones, enrollment, regulatory deadlines, and finances.
• Coordinates staffing, onboarding, training, and performance management.
• Provides guidance on policies, grant administration, and best practices.
• Generates reports to support leadership decisions.

Skills

Research management

Regulatory compliance

Clinical trials

Budgeting

Staff supervision

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Masters preferred

Job description

The Research Manager provides operational leadership for the Department of Surgery's research portfolio, overseeing research administration, regulatory compliance, financial management, and clinical trial operations. This individual partners closely with Principal Investigators, research staff, institutional offices, and external sponsors to ensure compliant, efficient, and financially sustainable management of investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored research. The Research Manager is responsible for supporting the full research lifecycle, including study start-up, grant administration, regulatory oversight, financial management, study execution, and closeout.

• Oversees day-to-day research operations across a portfolio of clinical and translational research studies, ensuring projects are completed in accordance with institutional policies, sponsor requirements, GCP, FDA, NIH, and other applicable regulations.
• Serves as the department's subject matter expert for research finance, including clinical trial budgeting, coverage analysis, invoicing, sponsor payments, participant reimbursement, account reconciliation, payroll allocations, effort reporting, financial projections, and deficit mitigation.
• Oversees regulatory compliance for clinical research, including IRB submissions, continuing reviews, amendments, reportable events, reliance agreements, informed consent documentation, protocol deviations, and regulatory file maintenance.
• Functions as an experienced Clinical Trial Manager (CTM), overseeing study start-up, activation, enrollment, recruitment strategies, monitoring visits, sponsor communication, data quality, protocol compliance, and study closeout.
• Collaborates with Principal Investigators, research coordinators, institutional offices, sponsors, CROs, and external collaborators to proactively identify operational challenges and implement effective solutions.
• Develops, implements, and continuously improves departmental standard operating procedures (SOPs), workflows, quality assurance initiatives, and research management processes.
• Monitors study timelines, milestones, enrollment targets, regulatory deadlines, and financial performance, proactively identifying risks and implementing corrective action plans when needed.
• Coordinates study staffing needs and may supervise research personnel, including recruitment, onboarding, training, performance management, professional development, and workload allocation.
• Ensures appropriate utilization of departmental resources while maintaining high standards of regulatory compliance, fiscal stewardship, and operational efficiency.
• Provides guidance to investigators regarding institutional policies, sponsor requirements, grant administration, and clinical research best practices.
• Generates operational, regulatory, enrollment, and financial reports for departmental leadership to support strategic planning and decision-making.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
  

• Bachelors degree (Masters preferred) in sciences or related degree
• 5 years experience in a hospital/medical environment and 1 year supervisory

Non-Bargaining Unit, 862 - Surgery - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine