Clinical Operations Manager

Clinical Operations Manager (Pittsburgh, PA local preferred)

The Clinical Operations Manager for our Sleep & Respiratory Care team will lead a talented team in planning and executing clinical studies, ensuring regulatory compliance, process improvement, and impactful reporting to drive product success. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic outcomes, collaborate with diverse stakeholders, and champion best practices in clinical research within a supportive and innovative environment.

Your role:

• Leads and develops a high-performing clinical operations team through talent management, mentoring, setting clear expectations, and fostering a positive, engaging work environment.
• Provides strategic direction and oversight for the planning, execution, and resource allocation of clinical studies, ensuring data quality, adherence to budgets, timelines, and regulatory standards.
• Acts as a subject matter expert on GCP, ISO, FDA, and global regulatory requirements, guiding best practices in clinical research, audits, and compliance.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders—including Regulatory, R&D, Quality, Biostatistics, and suppliers—to align clinical activities with organizational and business objectives.
• Drives continuous improvement and innovation in clinical operations processes, proactively identifying opportunities to streamline operations, manage complex challenges, and enhance organizational capabilities.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 7+ years of experience in clinical operations management with experience working directly with research studies in a healthcare setting and/or supporting clinical research and monitoring medical device trials with a sponsor or CRO. You have people leadership experience. Proven ability to drive strategy for study implementation of ongoing trials is required.
• Your skills include profound knowledge of clinical research process legislation and ICH-GCP guidelines. Medical device, pharma industry or other regulated environment experience is strongly preferred.
• You have a MD/PhD/PharmD or equivalent preferred; master’s degree required.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
• You’re an excellent communicator with an ability to work well cross functionally, and in a complex global working environment.This role requires up to 15% travel to clinical trial sites based on business needs.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office-based role.

About Philips

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Murrysville, PA is $129,375 to $207,000.

The pay range for this position in Bothell, WA and Cambridge, MA is $144,900 to $231,840.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.   

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here. 

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.