Senior Clinical Trial Manager - FSP

Parexel; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Parexel seeks a Senior Clinical Trial Manager to lead end-to-end clinical trial delivery, directing cross-functional teams to build and execute the trial operational plan. You will identify and mitigate risks to ensure on-time, on-budget, and compliant trial delivery across global studies.

The role requires substantial CRO/pharma experience, strong leadership, and budget/quality oversight. Travel up to 10% is possible depending on project needs.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree required.
• 7+ years of clinical research experience leading end-to-end trials.
• 3-5 years direct experience leading global clinical trials.
• Experience managing CRO/vendor outsourced trials and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional trial team to deliver the operational plan.
• Oversee trial delivery, budget, timelines, quality, and milestones.
• Manage CRO/vendor identification, SOW, budget oversight and KPIs.
• Monitor risks and implement mitigations.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and readiness for inspections.
• Mentor and onboard new team members in Study Management.
• Coordinate with Finance, Quality, Data Management, and other stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Project planning

Communication skills

MS Office

Problem solving

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/ BA degree

Tools

MS Office Suite

MS Project

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Clinical Trial Manager is accountable for the end-to-end clinical trial delivery, providing operational leadership and oversight of cross-functional deliverables and leading a cross functional trial team to build and deliver the trial operational plan. This role is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks to effectively deliver assigned trials on time, within budget, and in a compliant manner.

Job Summary

The Senior Clinical Trial Manager is accountable for the end-to-end clinical trial delivery, providing operational leadership and oversight of cross-functional deliverables and leading a cross functional trial team to build and deliver the trial operational plan. This role is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks to effectively deliver assigned trials on time, within budget, and in a compliant manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the Cross functional trial team to influence and execute delivery of the operational plan and for end-to-end trial execution.
• Accountable for overall trial delivery, budget, timelines, quality, and milestones (e.g., support DBL/ CSR/ TLR planning and scope, define protocol deviations and resolution pathways).
• Oversight of all aspects of CRO/vendor identification, set up, statement of work creation, budget oversight and performance (KPI’s and metrics)
• Proactively ensure that trial deliverables and milestones are met according to corporate and study-level goals
• Identify risks and ensure mitigations and contingencies are being initiated and followed through
• Ensure trial Is operationalized in compliance with global health authority regulations and guidelines and internal operating procedures and processes
• Participate in preparation for, and conduct of, Health Authority Inspections and internal QA audits
• Ensure that the trial team operates in a constant state of inspection-readiness, collaborating with R&D Quality to ensure quality oversight
• Participate in process improvement activities at a trial and department level as needed
• Mentor & support onboarding of new team members, particularly those in Study Management.
• Interface with internal key stakeholders including, but not limited to; Finance, Program Management, Vendor Management, Safety, Accounting, Supply, Quality Assurance, Data Management, Statistics, Clinical Research, Commercial, Regulatory, Bio Analytical, Medical Affairs; which may include acting as a liaison between groups.
• Provide a variance analysis of budget to actual and notify finance of projected cost over/under expenditure.
• Support and provide input into internal governance presentations & updates
• Ability to travel approximately 10% but flexibility to go over or below as per business need.

Qualifications

• BS/ BA degree is required.
• Minimum 7+ years of clinical research experience gained directly with a CRO, Biotech or Pharmaceutical Company leading on Phase 1-4 global clinical trials end to end.
• 3-5 years direct experience leading end to end global clinical trials
• Experience overseeing/leading global trials outsourced to a CRO vendor and ability to manage all aspects of execution of a clinical trial
• Excellent decision-making, analytical and financial management skills are essential to this position
• Excellent leadership skills, proven ability to foster team productivity and cohesiveness and the ability to operate and execute with limited supervision
• Experience in leading without authority and in multifunctional matrixed and global environments
• Experience mentoring/ coaching others
• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to deal with competing priorities, also strong reasoning and problem-solving ability.
• Strong project planning/ management, communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and MS Project.