Clinical Study Team Lead

Key Accountabilities:

• Leverages expertise to the design and conduct of clinical studies in alignment with the program and portfolio strategies for the specific category(ies) and Therapeutic Areas
• Partners and collaborates with functional line leadership to ensure optimal resourcing of the study team  Leads the study team and associated deliverables across all functions; accountable for developing, managing, and driving overall study timelines, budgets, and quality targets to meet or exceed business needs
• Ensures effective study team scheduling, records, and communications in partnership with the Clinical Trial Application (CTA)
• Ensures strategic planning, decision making, and issue resolution at the study level in line with program objectives
• Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management, and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional study team performance and accountable for effective study team operations
• Leads study team chartering and team health check process
• Partners and collaborate with functional line leadership to ensure optimal resourcing of the study team
• Represents the study team at appropriate medicine team and sub-team discussions
• Escalates issues to Clinical Operations Head when study team has been unable to resolve or adequately manage/mitigate
• May lead the delivery of Client deliverables to support market authorizations.
• May work at the program level, accountable for developing the execution strategy and managing the timelines, budgets, and quality across multiple studies in the program

Quality Oversight and Study Metrics

• Drives the monitoring and remediation of quality metrics and completion of the remediation tracker
• Drives functional lines to ensure inspection readiness
• Ensures maintenance and accuracy of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) log
• Maintains active awareness and appropriate escalation of all Significant Quality Events (SQEs) reported for study and ensures appropriate prioritization and management of events through to resolution
• Acts as a single, authoritative source of study information and leads study level status reporting per organizational norms and expectations
• Ensures systems are maintained with up-to-date program status, risks, and issues
• Oversees operational metrics across study and partners with functional lines to manage trends

Governance and Decision Points

• Drives the proactive planning to navigate the team through governance and decision point milestones to support on-time delivery of study deliverable on[1]time to maintain development timelines
• Leads preparations for and presents the study to relevant governance per organizational norms and expectations
• Ensures Client Quality Gate timing, planning, and team readiness

Risk Management

• Leads the study team in the management and communication of risk management plans including risk assessment and mitigation strategies
• Proactively identifies operational issues and leads the team in identifying options to de-risk and capitalize on opportunities
• Ensures study risk planning is ongoing throughout the study
• Leads the study team in proactive problem solving and risk management
• Is responsible for inspection readiness for their clinical study(ies)

Other Responsibilities

In some instances, may support the following activities:

Business Development

• A member of the Global Product Development (GPD) due diligence team for business development opportunities. Partner with GPD leaders to assess development program timelines and budgets to inform the assessment of opportunities for the category

Submissions

• Leads cross functional Client submission sub- teams with accountability for delivery and an overall operational strategy
• Develops and leads execution of the data and document delivery plans at key milestones such as Proof of Concept (POC), Client Decision Points, submissions, and rapid response. Manages other submissions activities, as necessary.
• Accountable for managing overall submission Clinical Development and Operations (CD&O) sub-team timelines, budgets, and quality targets
• Accountable for building, forecasting, and managing the CD&O submission budget
• Oversees operational metrics across submission sub-teams and manages trends and escalations
• Ensures comprehensive operational input to submission plan

Compliance with Parexel Standards

• Complies with required training curriculum
• Completes timesheets accurately as required
• Submits expense reports as required
• Updates CV as required
• Maintains a working knowledge of and complies with Parexel processes, ICH-GCPs and other applicable requirements

Skills:

• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Strategic thinking and targeted problem-solving skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, identify, resolve, and escalate issues
• Project management expertise
• Ability to leverage negotiation and conflict resolution skills to enhance team performance and delivery
• Ability to represent and communicate clearly to senior leaders and governance bodies
• Ability to understand and assimilate high-level data from all functions
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Knowledge and Experience:

• Preferred 10 or more years of relevant experience
• Extensive clinical trial conduct, global clinical trial operations, and a thorough understanding of the processes associated with project and study management, knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), monitoring, clinical, and regulatory operations
• Broad experience in a Clinical Trial Execution discipline (e.g., senior study management expertise, lead data management expertise, clinical leadership expertise)
• Demonstrated project management and cross-functional leadership experience
• Experience in understanding of key drivers impacting budgets and experience building a Clinical Trial Budget and managing project to budget

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required in one of the disciplines related to drug development or business preferred
• Advanced degree desirable