Clinical Trial Manager I

Come discover what our 25,000+ employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We're a growing and evolving biopharmaceutical industry leader, which means you'll have endless opportunities to work with experts around the world and build the career you've dreamed of.
As a part of the Syneos Health team, you'll help us deliver results for a rewarding reason - we improve patients' lives around the world. Because to us, a patient isn't just a number, they're our family, friends, and neighbors.

Why Syneos Health
• #SyneosHealthLife means we're committed to our Total Self culture - where everyone can authentically be themselves. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we know every person's unique contributions make a difference.
• We believe our success is a direct result of the people who are driving it - you! We value your dedication to care for our customers and patients, so we want to focus on taking care of you. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits program encompassing your total health - physical, mental and financial.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job responsibilities

• Participates in the development of innovative solutions for site and patient participation to ensure the delivery of assigned studies on time
• Supports study feasibility and country patient commitments in collaboration with Country/Cluster Trial Monitoring and Medical. Collects and manages input to the study protocol, and operational aspects of the study
• Ensures that study start-up activities are conducted and completed on time, including preparation of IRB/EC submission packages, review of Informed Consent Forms, engaging Regulatory Affairs for Health Authorities submissions, as required.
• Oversees local vendor selection and performance as needed. Serves as main contact for quality/compliance issues, escalating as necessary
• Ensures sites are prepared for "Ready to Initiate Site" (checkpoint), inclusive of written confirmation, and ensures all documentation is in place for initial and subsequent drug release in collaboration with the local Qualified Person(s)
• Maintains a strong knowledge of the study protocol to answer standard operational questions from CRAs, sites, and internal Country/Cluster personnel
• Drives the conduct of the study, (tracks status, maintains study level reporting systems, oversees forecasts, progress, and mitigation plans), to ensure all study operational aspects are on track
• Ensures recruitment targets are met and reviews enrolment at the site level including responsibility for approval of enrolling above site targets. Is responsible to set up contingency plan to ensure recruitment targets are achieved in accordance with trial execution plan
• Maintains oversight of country level or assigned site level data management activities, including timely understanding of screen failure reasons and discontinuation rates, review of patient profiles, and proactively identifies data entry issues
• Conducts or coordinates training, as needed, for CRAs to support site readiness to recruit and study execution ensuring adherence to clinical data standards, prevailing legislation, GCP, Ethical Committee and SOP requirements
• Conducts or coordinates local investigator meetings as needed
• Monitors the status of site budget and contract negotiations as well as the collection and review of essential documents throughout study start up under the direction of their manages
• Processes invoice able items for site level clinical study activities to allow timely payments

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree or RN in a related field or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• Demonstrates ability to lead and align teams in the achievement of project milestones, demonstrates capability of working in an international environment.
• Demonstrates learning of basic clinical project financial principles
• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice/ICH Guidelines and other applicable regulatory requirements
• Must demonstrate good computer skills
• Good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills among project team and with sites
• Ability to apply problem solving techniques to resolve complex issues, and apply a risk management approach to identifying and mitigating potential threats to the successful conduct of a clinical research project.
• Demonstrates critical thinking to determine the cause and appropriate solution in the identification of issues
• Moderate travel may be required, approximately 20%

Get to know Syneos Health
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