Feasibility and Strategy Leader -Pre-Award- Home Based

Essential Function

The Senior Feasibility & Strategy Leader (Sr. FSL) acts as a key contributor to the proposal team to support PAREXEL in winning new business. Working independently, the Sr. FSL is responsible to deliver, in collaboration with other SMEs (e.g. Medic, Integrated Solution Strategist, etc.), an optimized integrated strategic approach to deliver the right countries, right sites, and right patients for Request for Proposals (RFPs) on all types and phases of studies including programs. The Sr. FSL must demonstrate excellent communication and time management skills resulting in the completion of all deliverables within required timelines meeting proposal team needs and departmental quality standards. Strong analytical and writing skills are a pre-requisite to the job to allow Sr. FSL to fully adopt a consistent data-driven approach to feasibility and deliver clear, concise, selling proposal texts.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage collaboration with the virtual RFP team to take active role in creating and presenting integrated strategy for strategic scenario planning for each study or program. Through in-depth review of the RFP documents and ad-hoc follow-up questions, ensure a full understanding of customer requirements for the proposal as well as key drivers for CRO selection decision.

• Conduct detailed recruitment benchmark data analysis to estimate the foundations for the enrollment scenario building, namely range of countries and sites as well as months of recruitment required to enroll the target patients including efficiencies across studies and programs. Identify potential challenges/risks associated with Sponsor specifications, if any.

• Understand the patient profile and where these patients are found in the healthcare section, recognizing the global nature of the study. Identify site and patient barriers and motivators to participate in studies. This should be discussed with the study assigned MD for confirmation or questions.

• Determine and operationalize relevant pre-award feasibility services required to support PAREXEL strategic delivery plan to conduct the trial in order to positively influence Sponsor award decision. For mega studies or partnership programs, this may include leading pilots for innovative feasibility approaches and/or leading feasibility team to deliver multiple services in parallel.

• Conduct country selection analysis via available country selection tool/platform and deliver protocol-specific country recommendations including solid data-driven rationale.

• Define optimal strategy for site identification that would allow maximizing number of patients per site as well as number of sites per country.

• Lead the development of an integrated operational strategy to successfully recruit patients for clinical trials and deliver enrollment scenarios aligned to the agreed strategy utilizing available modeling tools and techniques.

• Articulate and defend the proposed strategy and enrollment scenario models in PAREXEL internal meetings.

• Develop strong selling proposal text to deliver the agreed compelling strategic approach to meet PAREXELs optimum delivery plan, taking into account Sponsor specific requirements.

• Prepare compelling slides to present the strategy for study delivery, country and site selection, and optimized scenario plan.

• Attend Bid Defense Meetings to present the integrated strategy to support the winning of new business as well as attend General Capabilities Meetings.

• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for systems, tools, processes, and/or partnerships.

• Mentor new FSL hires during their onboarding and support development.

• Lead initiatives and contribute to developing and updating tools, template, and processes.

QualificationsSkills

• Strong analytical skills applied to business needs;

• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, verbal and written communication;

• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities, and ability to influence others;

• Problem-solving skills allowing Client focused approach to work;

• Creative skills and ability to think outside the box

• Ability to multitask to tight timelines prioritizing workload and maintaining high quality standards

• Willingness to work in a matrix environment, work independently and part of a dynamic team and in a decentralized reporting model (as applicable)

Education

• Scientific degree, Registered Nursing degree or comparable life skill experience, Master’s degree, MD, or PhD preferred.

Language Skills

• Fluent in written and spoken English

Minimum Work Experience

• Relevant clinical research experience in management of international clinical trials.

• Demonstrated expertise of feasibility requirements.

• Previous exposure to development of clinical trial strategy, modeling of enrollment scenarios, and selection of country/sites.

Employment is contingent on disclosure of your COVID-19 vaccination status and, if relevant, proof of vaccination.

EEO DisclaimerParexel is an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected status, which in the US includes race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.