Associate - Trial Capabilities

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The Trial Capabilities Senior Associate provides clinical trial capabilities in support of clinical development. The Sr Associate is accountable to ensure the investigator sites meet requirements to enroll study participants into clinical trials and support ongoing activities during site maintenance and close-out. The Sr Associate is responsible for obtaining clinical trial authorizations and ethical approvals, execution of the budget and contract, records management and site training. The Sr Associate will ensure inspection readiness at all time following GCP and any local/regional requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Initiate investigator site activities, including collection and submission of regulatory documents to Ethics Review Board and Competent Authority, communicate and negotiate budgets and contracts with site, track and ensure site compliance to required training and effectively drive timelines aligned with company priority.
• Communicate with sites, Lilly functions, clinical research organization to enable start-up and maintain an active collaboration with sites during maintenance and close-out
• Act as subject matter expert on Trial Capabilities topics and provide oversight, coaching and technical support to Associates in managing high priority and complex clinical trials.
• Ensure country specific regulatory and data privacy requirements are incorporated into submission documents and any other documents/systems
• Coordinate the management and delivery of clinical trial material to ensure support of site initiation
• Strategic use of internal clinical trial systems (e.g. IMPACT, Vault Clinical, TrialForce) to allow tracking, performance metrics reporting and to meet regulatory compliance requirements
• Ensure complete, accurate and readily available Trial Master File

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in a scientific or health related field
• Three (3) years clinical research experience or relevant experience preferred
• Understanding of the overall clinical development paradigm and the importance of efficient site activation
• Applied knowledge of project management processes and skills
• Appreciation of / experience in compliance-driven environment
• Effective communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
• Self-management and organizational skills
• Language capabilities – English (read, write, conversation)

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