Team Manager – EMEA Clinical Trial Start-Up Lead

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🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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📋 Description

• Lead and oversee clinical trial start-up activities across multiple EU countries • Coordinate country teams and cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix environment • Provide regional oversight of site activation activities against timelines, quality expectations, and contractual commitments • Navigate EU-CTR and country-specific regulatory and start-up requirements • Manage country-specific documentation and additional national or local committee approvals • Coordinate information flow among project teams, clients, country teams, functional departments, and site activation stakeholders • Develop and implement start-up plans and guidelines using PPD/Thermo Fisher Scientific tools and processes • Monitor and analyse project and country-level start-up status, metrics, escalations, and recommendations • Identify and mitigate operational, regulatory, contractual, and timeline risks • Manage competing priorities, dependencies, timelines, and critical-path activities across multiple countries • Coordinate feasibility, site contracts, country teams, and related activities • Manage financial and contractual aspects relating to site activation • Control project resources and expenses against agreed budgets • Evaluate complex start-up issues and implement agreed solutions • Build effective relationships with customers and internal stakeholders throughout project delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant academic/vocational qualification • Typically 5+ years of relevant clinical research experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and directly related experience • Demonstrated experience in clinical trial study start-up/site activation • Demonstrated regional EU start-up leadership with direct operational responsibility across multiple EU countries • Direct SSU/Study Start-Up leadership and oversight across multiple EU countries • Practical knowledge of EU-CTR and its application to multi-country clinical trial start-up • Understanding of country-specific EU-CTR implementation and documentation requirements • Knowledge of additional national, local, institutional, or committee approvals outside the EU-CTR process • Experience managing start-up risks and issues • Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple countries • Ability to lead, influence, liaise with, and coordinate cross-functional and geographically dispersed project teams • Strong cross-cultural awareness • Strong organisational, project management, and multitasking capabilities with excellent attention to detail • Ability to identify contractual and operational risks and develop solutions • Comprehensive understanding of clinical research and clinical development, including applicable guidelines, directives, study phases, therapeutic areas, and medical terminology • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage changing priorities, communicate with diverse stakeholder groups, and perform under pressure • Occasional travel availability, including outside normal business hours or at weekends

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Occasional domestic and international travel of up to approximately 20% • Collaborative environment • Opportunity to contribute to successful clinical studies and scientific breakthroughs

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