Senior Trial Vendor Manager

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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Parexel

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 1990-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Parexel is one of the world's largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing comprehensive services for the clinical development process from Phase I to IV. The company specializes in portfolio management, clinical trial management, regulatory strategy, market access, and lifecycle management for biopharmaceuticals. Parexel aims to speed life-changing medicines to market by leveraging its clinical, regulatory, and therapeutic expertise. With a global team of over 21,000 professionals, Parexel works to integrate patient insights and innovative trial designs to develop treatments across therapeutic areas such as oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and more. It focuses on delivering patient-centric and efficient clinical trials.

📋 Description

• Accountable for all vendor related operational trial deliverables, according to timelines, budget, operational procedures, quality/compliance and performance standards. • Collaborates with the VSM for the category specific responsibilities. • Responsible for all activities for which no VSM is assigned with, and for all of the service deliveries after Study Start-up when the VSM is no longer assigned to the study. • Assigned responsibilities can include but are not limited to: Close interaction and collaboration with study team lead and study team members during study lifetime. • Review of vendor related protocol sections during protocol development. • Collaborate with Vendor Startup Manager to the development of Study Specification Worksheet (SSW) to facilitate bid process. • Manages interface with vendors in cooperation with vendor partner functions. • Quote/proposal review in collaboration with procurement, support contract negotiations, if required. • Contributes to the development of vendor contract amendments. • Accountable for vendor cost control, budget review, invoice reconciliation and PO close-out. • Vendor service excellence at study level, ensures vendors meet quality and service level standards in their service delivery for the trial. • Covers all vendor activities after study start-up and all categories not covered by VSMs during start-up. • Initiates/co-ordinates vendor kick-off meeting for categories not covered by VSMs. • Attends vendor kick-off meeting for VSM supported categories. • Optimizing a frontloaded and timely study-start-up process, manages vendor-related activities for DB go live. • Performs user-acceptance testing (UAT) for eCOA and IRT. • Drives and monitors central vendor-related activities for site activation, compiles Final Protocol Package (FPP) required documents centrally, monitors site activation progress and addresses related issues and risk. • Creates and maintains vendor-related risk maps with contingency plan for documentation in FIRST. • Manages system and portal user access for vendor, sponsor and site staff, maintain access logs. • Uses Unified Vendor Portal (UVP) to manage vendor. • Uses Clinical Insights to manage vendors and to achieve site readiness timelines. • Plans and tracks supply delivery to sites and return of equipment from sites. • Interacts and collaborates with Data Ops, reviews vendor-related cycle times (e.g. DTS finalization, data transfers, DBL). • Acts as escalation point for vendor-related query management. • Follow-up with countries and hubs for their vendor-related risks and issues. • Document issues identified with vendor oversight/performance in FIRST tool and implements and monitors corrective action.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor degree or equivalent degree is required, with advanced degree preferred • 3+ years working experience and excellent knowledge of the clinical operation processes and vendor management • Excellent knowledge of GxP and ICH regulations • Very good knowledge of clinical trial design and mapping to supplier requirements • Thorough and technical understanding of client specifications for supplier provided services • User Acceptance testing for eCOA and IRT • Site collaboration and site activation • Vendor management; outsourcing, contracting, sourcing, of clinical services • Results-driven: demonstrated ability of completing projects on time • Ability to work in cross-functional teams and a matrixed environment • Strong influencing and negotiation skills • Good written and oral communications skills • Very good problem-solving skills • Demonstrated willingness to make decisions and to take responsibility for such • Excellent interpersonal skills (team player)

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities