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The PositionAre you passionate about strengthening healthcare partnerships to accelerate clinical innovation? As the Clinical Research Engagement Lead (CREL), you will play a pivotal role in driving strategic site engagement, optimizing clinical trial operations, and delivering an exceptional, streamlined experience for clinical trial sites.
In this role, you will champion a "One Roche" approach, acting as the primary point of contact for strategic sites and bringing together internal medical and operational teams to anticipate and support site needs. By establishing a collaborative local community and managing key relationships with Contract Research Organizations (CROs), you will ensure the successful, high-quality delivery of our portfolio from early to late-stage clinical development.
Key Responsibilities:
Drive Strategic Site Engagement: Develop and execute tailored country-level site engagement strategies across disease areas, fostering trust, operational excellence, and accelerated trial progression.
Optimize Early Landscaping & Feasibility: Engage strategically with investigators during early trial setup, landscaping, and protocol review phases to identify the most suitable sites and optimize recruitment speed.
Lead Relationship Management & Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact for strategic clinical sites, building deep connections with investigators, pharmacists, and clinic administrations to align cross-study priorities and capture feedback trends.
Coordinate Internal Communities: Convene and lead a local site engagement community (integrating Local Medical Affairs, field medical teams, and clinical operations) to streamline communications and enhance the site experience.
Provide Global & Local Study Oversight: Oversee the planning, risk mitigation, and compliance of assigned clinical studies, tracking monitoring performance, risk-based monitoring plans, and trial master file completeness.
Manage Partner Relationships: Collaborate closely with CRO partners throughout the clinical trial lifecycle to ensure unified delivery goals, high site satisfaction, and swift resolution of operational challenges.
Ensure Inspection Readiness: Lead local quality reviews, internal audits, and regulatory inspections for allocated studies, ensuring absolute compliance with global quality standards and regulatory guidelines.
Who You Are
You are a strategic, relationship-driven clinical operations professional who excels in dynamic environments, leads cross-functional alignment through ambiguity, and holds a strong commitment to customer-centric delivery.
Qualifications & Skills:
Education: Degree (MD, PhD, Master’s, or Bachelor’s) in life sciences or an equivalent discipline.
Experience: Significant experience in the pharmaceutical or clinical research industry, with essential expertise in end-to-end product development and clinical trial processes.
Relationship Management: A proven track record of managing site relationships, overseeing complex clinical trials, and effectively collaborating with CROs.
Strategic & Analytical Mindset: Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities, proactively identify operational challenges, and develop effective, data-backed compliance and mitigation strategies.
Communication & Influencing: Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with the ability to bridge communication gaps between global teams and local external stakeholders.
Languages: Mandatory fluency in written and spoken English, as well as the local language(s) of the host country.
Mobility: Willingness and flexibility to travel to trial sites on an ongoing basis to establish and maintain strong relationships (frequent domestic and occasional international travel required).
Let’s thrive together in a culture built on trust, collaboration, respect, and high performance. Apply today!
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Degree (MD, PhD, Master's, or Bachelor's) in life sciences or equivalent.
- Significant experience in the pharmaceutical or clinical research industry with end-to-end product development and clinical trial processes.
- Proven track record managing site relationships and overseeing complex clinical trials, including collaboration with CROs.
- Experience with inspection readiness, local quality reviews, internal audits, and regulatory compliance.
- Demonstrated strategic and analytical abilities to identify operational challenges and implement mitigation strategies.
- Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Fluency in written and spoken English and the local language(s) of the host country.
- Willingness and flexibility to travel frequently domestically and occasionally internationally.
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
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What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
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