Team Manager – Clinical Trial Start-Up Lead

🔥 12 hours ago

🌐 Spain, France, +2 more countries – Remote

🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇫🇷 France – Remote 🇮🇹 Italy – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧪 Clinical Research

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee start-up activities across multiple EU countries • Coordinate country teams and cross-functional stakeholders within a matrix environment • Provide regional oversight of site activation activities against project timelines, quality expectations, and contractual commitments • Navigate EU-CTR and country-specific regulatory and start-up requirements • Manage country-specific documentation requirements 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 for senior management • Identify operational, regulatory, contractual, and timeline risks and develop mitigation and contingency plans • Manage priorities, dependencies, timelines, and critical-path activities across multiple countries • Coordinate feasibility, site contracts, country teams, and other assigned activities • Collaborate on financial and contractual aspects related to site activation • Establish controls to align project resources and expenses with agreed budgets and Global Project Management expectations • Evaluate complex start-up issues, make business decisions, and implement agreed solutions • Build effective customer and internal stakeholder relationships throughout project delivery

🎯 Requirements

• 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 and experience managing additional national, local, institutional, or committee approvals outside the EU-CTR process • Structured approach to identifying, assessing, escalating, mitigating, and monitoring 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 appropriate solutions • Comprehensive understanding of clinical research and clinical development, including applicable guidelines, directives, study phases, therapeutic areas, and medical terminology • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant academic/vocational qualification • Typically 5+ years of relevant clinical research experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, and directly related experience • Demonstrated clinical trial study start-up/site activation experience • Demonstrated regional EU start-up leadership with direct operational responsibility across multiple EU countries • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage changing priorities, communicate with diverse stakeholder groups, and perform under pressure • Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to approximately 20%

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Standard Monday–Friday work schedule • Appropriate personal protective equipment where applicable • Collaborative work environment • Up to approximately 20% domestic and international travel