Manager, Clinical Trial Safety
Job Summary
Responsible for line management of a group of individuals and has shared accountabilities for service resulting in high quality medical data review.
He/she may have also responsibilities associated directly with the clinical data review (will work in close collaboration with the Study Physicians and Clinical/Project Scientists providing them consolidated data supporting high quality medical/ safety evaluation).
Accountabilities:
- Has regular meetings with employees to discuss with employee any important business topics workload supportneeded to provide and collect feedforward support performance development including goal setting andperforming regular check-ins during the year (as per applicable process); supports and motivates employeesprovides required help and removes barriers
- Performs work allocation/ resource management duties
- Works according to agreed functional and regional SHE strategy by ensuring proper management of SHE risksincidents reporting follow-up and improvements
- Undertakes the full range of duties relevant to mentoring/coaching and development of the individual to ensurecontinuous professional development of the employee and development planning
- Participates in formal staff review process (e.g. performance and salary review)
- Ensures that employees adhere to corporate policies procedures and guidelines
- Ensures that employees comply with training requirements
- Ensures that employees comply with all rules and duties including but not limited to reporting in MyTimefinancial reporting QI reporting
- Recruits new individuals
- Supports employees in the process of onboarding induction and offboarding
- Maintains a positive result-oriented work environment building partnership with other functions andcommunicates in an open balanced and objective manner
- Has personal responsibility for creating a culture of courageous leadership creativity speak-up culturefeedforward sharing
- Provides strategic assessment with an enterprise mindset and accountability for the proactive development andexecution of Strategy
- Proposes and leads/supports the implementation of strategic initiatives innovation and best practices
- Collaborates with Study Physician and/or Clinical/Project Scientist and other study team members if applicable providing scientific and operational input as well as oversight of team dedicated to study start-upmaintenance and closure activities and give consistent program/molecule/indication level input into generation ofthe relevant documents and tools configurations
- Oversees the process implementation and ongoing review and querying of critical clinical/ safety data to ensurescientific quality and standardization on a program/ molecule/ indication level
- Ensures seamless and complete clinical data review
- May support scientists in day-to-day handling and querying of clinical/ safety data within assignedprojects and will review the data for medical completeness scientific accuracy and coding consistency
- Ensures effective cross-functional collaboration between staff and all stakeholders engaged in clinical/safety data review on a program/ molecule/ indication level
- Ensures feedforward collection lessons learned sharing and transfer of learnings between studies to support highscientific and operational quality and standardization within program/molecule/indication
- Acts as a trailblazer in the clinical projects from the therapeutic area/ indication/ moleculeperspective as well as the new scope and new tools & associated processes perspective
- Acts as role model of project leader/ project expert either as the project Primary Point of Contact (POC)and/or clinical/ safety data reviewer in the studies of high complexity and importance
- Project subject matter expert for any topic related to handling of medical/ safety data such as review for medicalcompleteness medical accuracy and coding consistency
- Mentor and trainer for more junior staff to ensure consistent processes and efficient review of critical medical/safety data across studies within the same molecule/program/indication contributing to development ofonboarding and mentoring processes in the department
- Leads quality of own deliverables and oversees quality of more junior staff by performing regular quality checks onstudy level
Education Qualifications Skills and Experience
- Essential:
- Advanced university degree in a medical/life science field
- Minimum 3 years of experience working in clinical research pharmacovigilance and/or safety and clinical data reviewmethodology or equivalent combination of scientific research activities
- In-depth understanding of the clinical study and drug development process and GCP/ICH guidelines; extensiveknowledge of applicable regulations and guidelines including SAE reporting requirements; understanding of clinicaldata flow demonstrated current understanding of organisation scope challenges and opportunities
- Proven project management capabilities; ability to manage change risks priorities and performance targets; showingexcellent time management skills and ability to multi-task in a high-volume environment with shifting and/orcompeting priorities
- Solving complex diverse multifactorial problems; managing change and uncertainty - for self and teams; supervisingothers work and providing support; setting own and team objectives aligning with business objectives/strategy
- Managing/negotiating diverse/conflicting stakeholder interests; multidisciplinary communications and two-wayinfluencing; presenting and collaborating securing buy-in on complex problems with diverse audiences; proven abilityto interact effectively with all levels of management demonstrated leadership ability in a team environment; provenability to facilitate team building and teamwork
- Excellent knowledge of spoken and written English - communication in a scientific environment; computer proficiency
- Positive approach to individual team and business changes perceived as opportunity to improve performance and addvalue to the business
- Experience in cross-functional pharmaceutical development proven leadership experiences (people and project)including team facilitation skills and strong collaborative communications ability to diverse client base
- Line management experience
- Ability to effectively lead complex non-drug projects in a world-wide environment demonstrated ability to set andmanage priorities resources performance targets and project initiatives in a global and regional environment
- Conceptual and strategic thinking; concern for standards and willingness to learn from others
- Has knowledge on Procedural documents as they pertain to study delivery systems and processes
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Manager
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