The Manager is mainly responsible for managing a defined group of locally/centrally/regionally or globally based Site Readiness employees to ensure consistent, timely and high quality delivery of regulatory, start-up and maintenance activities.

Essential Job Duties:
• Partners and collaborates with peers across the organization in order to achieve client-centric delivery in a matrix organization. In particular, collaboration across all stakeholders within Site Readiness.
• Mentors and advises staff in their day to day work
• Assesses staffing and resourcing needs to ensure maximum staff utilization
• Allocate team members to projects as required, based on experience and availability.
• Interviews, evaluates and recruits new staff as required while providing recruitment and retention initiatives for existing staff
• Identifies staff training and development needs and ensures requirements are met.
• Manages employee performance and employee development in a proactive manner.
•... Responsible for detailed performance review and management of assigned direct reports, including Annual Performance Management and Development (PMD) and Individual Development Plan (IDP).
• Promotes, reviews and evaluates quality and performance metrics (individual and/or project specific) and ensures these are adequately documented and communicated. If needed the Manager puts adequate actions/mitigation plans in place
• Contribute to the development of the group through participating in and/or leading process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed within agreed project specific timelines and in accordance with sponsor expectations and in compliance with SOPs and/or other quality and regulatory requirements
• Serve as an issue escalation point for concerns either from the external/internal project team members or other staff.
• Participate in client-hosted audits (for completed/active project(s)) and audit responses, attending project specific audits and pre-qualification audits.

As applicable and assigned by management:
• Provide support to Business Development, including providing information for RFI and RFP responses, and bid defense meetings. Attend bid defense meetings if required.
• Review financial performance of allocated employees (which may include but is not limited to: resource assignment, revenue forecast and recognition, pricing, budgets, change orders and profit margins).
• May provide oversight of transactional clients
• Coordinate and Lead Project/Country Reviews
• Perform any other duties as required by the department.
• Where applicable, maintain awareness of current regulatory legislation, guidance and practice related to country delivery. Evaluate the impact of clinical/regulatory changes on business operations and oversee internal regulatory intelligence database updates. May advise on country strategy for project delivery and regulatory strategy.

Minimum Required:
• Five (5) or more years of drug development and clinical research experience (pharmaceutical, biotech or CRO), preferably including three (3) or more years project management/line management responsibility / preferably in Study Start-up.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
• Ability to utilize resources effectively.
• Financial awareness
• Demonstrated ability to inspire effective teamwork and motivate staff within a matrix system.
• Demonstrated ability to lead by example and to encourage team members to seek solutions.
• Experience mentoring junior level staff.
• Good communication, planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to negotiate and liaise with clients in a professional manner.
• Ability to present to staff at all levels.

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