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Job Summary:
The Clinical Trial Manager is responsible for the execution of study-level activities including but not limited to creating and updating trial-specific documents, vendor oversight & delivery, compound training and country and regional oversight of CRO operational delivery. This includes alignment on the feasibility strategy, target setting, risk reviews, and country challenges that could impact overall study delivery.
Key Accountabilities:
- Manage integration of project team activities
- Manage strategic study operations including but not limited to study sites and tracking systems for regulatory submissions, drug supply and use, enrollment of subjects, regulatory document flow, study timelines, budget and financial information, performance metrics, and data flow
- Provide input on trial level operational strategies for clinical trials from protocol design to the final clinical study report for specific studies
- Provide input into global subject/patient recruitment plans
- Manage aspects of CRO/vendor identification and the day-to-day operational management activities of CROs and other vendors including set up, statement of work creation, and budget oversight
- Create and update critical trial-specific documents
- Support development of compound and protocol level training materials
- Review and provide input into budgets, timelines, and forecasts for assigned clinical studies
- Provide support for inspection readiness activities including risk identification and mitigation plans at the trial level
- Participate in process improvement activities at a trial and department level as needed
- Manage relationships between study sites and vendors
- Interface with internal key stakeholders
- Support onboarding of new team members
- Attend stakeholder meetings and provide input and updates on operational activities and progress
Skills:
- Excellent decision-making, analytical, and financial management skills
- Excellent leadership skills, proven ability to foster team productivity and cohesiveness and the ability to operate and execute with limited supervision
- Experience in leading without authority and in multifunctional matrixed and global environments
- Experience mentoring and coaching others
- Exceptional organizational skills and ability to deal with competing priorities
- Strong reasoning and problem-solving abilities
- Strong project planning/management, communications (written and verbal) and presentation skills
- Experience with protocol, informed consent form (ICF), case report form (CRF), and clinical study report (CSR) development and review
- Proficient in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
- Ability to travel approximately 10%
Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum 5+ years of clinical research experience gained with a CRO, biotech or pharmaceutical company working on phase I-IV global clinical trials
- 2-3 years leading aspects of global clinical trials
- Experience working with CROs
Education:
- Bachelor's degree is required
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 5 years of clinical research experience with a CRO, biotechnology, or pharmaceutical company
- Experience working on Phase I-IV global clinical trials
- 2-3 years leading aspects of global clinical trials
- Experience working with CROs
- Experience with protocol, informed consent form, case report form, and clinical study report development and review
- Strong project planning and management skills
- Experience leading without authority in multifunctional, matrixed, and global environments
- Experience mentoring and coaching others
- Financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and analytical skills
- Strong written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Ability to travel approximately 10%
Parexel Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA options, and company-paid disability insurance. Descriptions often portray the package as strong or “top notch,” adding meaningful value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company matching and, in some regions, generous pension contributions. Core financial protections are emphasized as a solid part of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include ample PTO or flexible/unlimited RTO alongside flexible schedules and remote/hybrid options. Work-life balance support from managers is highlighted as a practical advantage.
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What We Do
Parexel is among the world’s largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. Leveraging the breadth of our clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our team of more than 21,000 global professionals collaborates with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind, increasing access and participation to make clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere. Our depth of industry knowledge and strong track record gained over the past 40 years is moving the industry forward and advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas, while our innovation ecosystem offers the best solutions to make every phase of the clinical trial process more efficient. With the people, insight and focus on operational excellence, we work With HeartTM every day to treat patients with dignity and continuously learn from their experiences, so every trial makes a difference. For more information, visit parexel.com. Community Guidelines Because Parexel’s social media channels are open to the general public and employees, we are not responsible for views expressed other than our own. However, we do not tolerate posts that are: • Abusive, harassing or threatening to others. • Defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence. • Hateful targeting by race/ethnicity, age, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual preference or orientation, nationality or political beliefs. • Sexually explicit or pornographic. • Fraudulent, deceptive, libelous, misleading or unlawful. • Referencing criminal or illegal activity. • Spamming. We reserve the right to remove any comments that do not adhere to our guidelines as well as report users who violate the rules of our page.








