Temp Global Site Start Up Lead

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is seeking a Manager, Global Site Start-Up Lead to drive global site activation for clinical trials. You will partner with CROs and cross-functional teams, manage fast-track initiation, and ensure timely regulatory submissions while maintaining high-quality TMF documentation.

The role requires strategic leadership, risk mitigation, and collaboration across functions. Location options include Armonk or Warren with a hybrid in-office schedule (3–4 days/week) and up

Responsibilities

• Lead global site start-up execution for clinical trials, ensuring efficient, compliant processes aligned with SOPs and ICH-GCP.
• Coordinate with CROs and cross-functional teams to address challenges and meet study objectives.
• Develop and monitor site activation projections, milestones, and TMF documentation for inspection readiness.
• ProvideRegulatory and country-startup inputs, risk mitigation, and training to teams and sites.

Job description

Build our future together:

Within Regeneron, there are a growing number of diverse collaborations and alliances with external entities. This individual will help to build productive external partnerships across several key areas. The Director will support the identification, execution and management of overarching strategic relationships with various organizations and institutions to support the Global Clinical Development organization’s efforts to more effectively develop Regeneron’s product candidates and advance the company’s broader R&D objectives. The individual will function as a strategic and critical thinker, identifying and developing key external relationships and coordinating across a matrix of teams with the purposes of finding opportunities and streamlining external partnership initiation and maintenance. They will be focused on further building an internal capability on behalf of Regeneron that is highly-regarded by external partners and internal leaders. The individual will partner closely with other internal leaders embedded in the company who work with external partners to ensure collaboration, continuity and alignment. This role will be highly collaborative with other functions and will require thoughtful and inclusive leadership. This role will be tasked with not only identifying strategic partnerships, but facilitating the drafting and execution of contracts, as well as remaining connected to the overarching relationships, while helping to facilitate the components that live in specific areas throughout the life of the agreements.

When & where:

Location: Armonk, or Warren

Work model/flexibility: in office 3-4 days per week

May require up to 25% travel

Discover your role:

The Manager, Global Site Start-Up Lead (SSU Lead) is responsible for driving the global execution of site activation for clinical trials, performing the role with moderate oversight to ensure efficient and compliant processes aligned with Regeneron SOPs, ICH-GCP guidelines, and industry standards. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams and Clinical Research Organizations (CROs), this role balances strategic oversight with hands‑on leadership to address challenges and deliver study objectives. The SSU Lead develops site activation projections, mitigates risks impacting site activation, and monitors CRO performance by analyzing metrics. Additionally, they lead all aspects of site start-up activities, including fast‑track initiation, milestone tracking, and document collection, while ensuring timely submissions and leveraging country intelligence for informed decision‑making.

Site Start-up Strategy

• Develop the site start up strategy for each study, outlining all dependencies impacting site activation and actively mitigating and escalating risks. Oversee the tracking and analysis of study metrics, including risks and mitigation strategies and to evaluate CRO performance and implement corrective actions.
  • Advocate for optimized site selection strategies, leveraging data-driven insights to guide cross-functional teams toward effective decision-making.
• Lead the development, assessment, and alignment of site activation projections, ensuring cross-functional and CRO collaboration to meet strategic objectives.
  • Ensure comprehensive and compliant documentation of site start-up materials in the Trial Master File (TMF) to maintain inspection readiness.

Country Start-up

• Partner with cross functional and CRO partners (where applicable) to develop a comprehensive global country start up strategy, outlining all dependencies impacting country start up and actively mitigating and escalating risks cross functionally.
  • Monitor and maintain country intelligence data to support informed decision-making and develop accurate startup projections and strategic plans.
  • Support regulatory submissions as needed, including activities such as: providing required site documentation, coordinating submissions to Central Institutional Review Boards (CIRBs), supporting sites with Local Institutional Review Board (LIRB) submissions, and handling or supervising Clinical Research Organization (CRO) insurance requests, etc.
• Ensure timely country submission deliverables (ensure task completion; all roles clarity, identification of critical path items, effective communication pathway).

Site Start up Management

• Lead and oversee all aspects of site start-up activities, including fast-track site initiation, site calls, document collection, and milestone tracking, ensuring timely and efficient completion of processes.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for essential site documents, providing training, guidance, and support to teams and sites on regulatory requirements, document management, and TMF filing.
• Oversee CRO site start up management or in house site facing regional SSU team, where applicable
  • Lead the collection and analysis of site intelligence to support strategic site selection and site start-up.
  • Oversee the preparation and approval of site regulatory package, ensuring compliance with country-specific requirements, TMF standards, and ICH-GCP guidelines, while supporting inspection readiness and maintaining high-quality site documentation.

Team Interactions

• Represent SSU on cross-functional teams, providing updates, escalating challenges, and proposing mitigation strategies for site start-up issues.
• Act as the escalation point for CRO and internal team to ensure timely SSU issue resolution

Process Improvement

• Recommends and participates in cross functional and department process improvements.

Does this sound like you?

We are committed to building a workplace with an inclusive culture. Regeneron is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief (or lack thereof), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, civil status, pregnancy or parental status, age, disability, nationality, citizenship status, ethnic or national origin, membership of the Traveler community, familial status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Where required, we will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with known disabilities or chronic illnesses during the recruitment process, unless such accommodation would impose undue hardship.

Where necessary, we disclose salary ranges for roles in all countries in which we operate. The final offer will be determined within the relevant range based on the country of employment, specific role level, and your skills and experience. In some countries, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) may apply and influence certain elements of pay or benefits. Regeneron offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package which may include, depending on country and role: annual bonuses or other incentive plans, equity awards, pension or retirement benefits, 401(k) company match, health and wellness programs, fitness centers, insurance benefits (e.g. medical, dental, vision, life and disability), paid time off, and family support benefits. For additional information about Regeneron benefits in the U.S., please visit https://careers.regeneron.com/en/working-at-regeneron/total-rewards/. For other locations, additional information will be provided during the recruitment process.

As part of the recruitment process, certain background checks may be conducted in accordance with the laws of the country where the position is based. The purpose of such checks is to verify certain information prior to the commencement of employment such as identity, right to work and educational qualifications.

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