Associate Director, Registry Operations Management

🔥 12 hours ago

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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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

• Provide senior operational leadership for a portfolio of CorEvitas registries and real-world evidence programs • Lead assigned registries across start-up, site activation, enrollment, ongoing data collection, maintenance, and closeout • Convert protocols, contracts, client commitments, and program objectives into integrated plans, milestones, staffing assumptions, and risk controls • Monitor portfolio health and intervene on risks, dependencies, delays, quality issues, and scope changes • Ensure program records, governance, and operational decisions are documented according to company procedures and applicable requirements • Coordinate delivery with Clinical Operations, Data Management, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Quality, Technology, Finance, Contracts, and client-facing teams • Clarify accountability, handoffs, decision rights, and dependencies across functions • Lead operational reviews and governance discussions for assigned programs • Communicate status updates, options, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and clients • Oversee site activation, enrollment, retention, data collection, and participation trends • Guide targeted plans for underperforming sites and improve site engagement and registry performance • Represent Registry Operations in client meetings and planning forums • Assess operational, timeline, resource, and financial impacts of proposed changes • Promote quality, compliance, inspection readiness, patient-centered research, and timely issue escalation • Partner on audits, inspections, investigations, corrective and preventive actions, and remediation • Lead process improvements that strengthen consistency, cycle time, stakeholder experience, and operational scalability • Develop practical standards, tools, and metrics • Coach and develop Registry Operations colleagues, manage workloads, and support talent development and succession planning • Contribute to feasibility assessments, proposals, budgets, resource estimates, portfolio capacity planning, annual planning, and strategic initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, healthcare, public health, clinical research, business, or a related field is required • Typically, 8 or more years of experience in clinical research operations, registry operations, observational research, real-world evidence, clinical operations, or a related area • Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional programs and working with sites or site networks in a regulated research environment • Experience with people-management or significant team leadership equivalent to 5 years is required • Experience with longitudinal registries, observational studies, or post-marketing research and with biopharmaceutical or biotechnology clients is preferred • Strong program leadership, planning, risk management, issue resolution, and performance management skills • Ability to interpret operational data and turn findings into clear actions and recommendations • Sound judgment in balancing scientific, operational, client, financial, and organizational needs • Effective written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and influencing skills • Ability to lead through ambiguity, solve root causes, and implement lasting improvements • Must be able to work East Coast hours • Must be legally authorized to work in the US without sponsorship • Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, including a drug screening

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Standard Monday–Friday work schedule • Relocation assistance is NOT provided • Reasonable accommodation for disabilities during the application, interview, and employment process • Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections