Senior Regional Clinical Study Manager

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Language Requirement: Portuguese and English required. Spanish preferred.

Preferred Experience: Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry, Hematology, Oncology

General Description:

- Accountable for regional study delivery with appropriate inspection readiness quality within agreed timelines and budget
- Acts as regional lead for multiple studies across an indication or across a program as required
- Leads the regional clinical operations team (including external partners working on a regional level) and acts as the point of escalation for the resolution of issues within the region for the assigned study
- Ensures alignment of regional deliverables with overall study goals
- Contributes to the development of regional tools and leads to the development of work instructions and SOPs as required

Essential Functions:
Regional Leadership:

- Leads the regional clinical operations team effectively, ensures effective decision-making making and acts as a point of escalation for the resolution of issues within the region for the assigned study
- Leads external vendors involved in study delivery on a regional level
- Collaborates with key stakeholders in the region and provides regular updates on study progress in the region to senior management and Global Clinical Study Manager as required
- Represents the regional study team at internal meetings and at the cross-functional Clinical Study Team (CST) meetings
- Leads regional operations meetings with all regional study team members
- Displays therapeutic area knowledge and expertise

Timelines, Planning and Execution:

- Leads planning and management of the assigned clinical study(ies) from feasibility through closeout activities for the region, in line with global study timelines
- Generates, manages, and maintains high-quality study start-up and recruitment timelines for region and tracks progress towards these
- Ensures that clinical study is operationally feasible in the region, drives trial feasibility, country allocation and site selection process for assigned region in collaboration with feasibility managers, country heads, medical affairs and any other stakeholders
- Provides regional input on global study plans as required
- Ensures timely availability of local adaptations of global study documents, such as informed consent forms, in close collaboration with other key stakeholders to ensure timely submission to regulatory authorities and ECs/IRBs
- Accountable for submissions of study in countries in assigned regions in close collaboration with regional study start-up team and regulatory affairs
- Ensures regional and country information in study systems and tools is entered and up to date
- Collaborates closely with CRAs in the region to ensure proper study execution at the sites. Reviews and signs-off monitoring reports
- Responsible for working with regional and country teams to ensure that country and site level Trial Master File is created, maintained and QC’d regularly as per the study TMF QC plan
- Provides input to Global Clinical Supplies regarding drug inventories in region and reviews local drug labels for region. Provides input on local regulatory approval and reimbursement status of comparator drugs used in study for countries in the region
- Manages the trial data collection process for the region, drives data entry and query resolution
- As required, supports planning and execution of the Clinical Study Report in collaboration with the Global Clinical Study Manager and Medical Writing

Quality:

- Handles escalated issues or problems with the sites in the region in close collaboration with stakeholders such as country heads
- Monitors study activities in the region to ensure compliance with the study protocol, SOPs, ICH/GCP and all other relevant regulations
- Ensures inspection readiness for study in the region at any point in time throughout the study life cycle
- Informs Global Clinical Study Manager of any issues arising from the study, evaluates the impact and ensures solutions are implemented
- Prepares sites for quality assurance audits and inspections, drives responses to audit and inspection findings as appropriate
- Collaborates with CST members and other colleagues to ensure cross-team, site learnings, and best practices are shared
- Leads improvements and partners with CST members to enhance efficiency and the quality of the work performed on assigned studies
- Leads the development, optimization, and review of work instructions and SOPs as required

Budget and Resources:

- Works with the sourcing team to select and manage regional study vendors
- Manages regional study budgets
- Works closely with Clinical Business Operation on investigator fees, site payment issues and patient travel reimbursement activities
- Identifies and manages regional team resource needs and establishes contingency plans for key resources
- Monitors regional resource utilization over the study life c