Updated: Yesterday
Location: South Africa-Europe - ZAF-Home-Based
Job ID: 24006913
Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.
Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for site management oversight, clinical monitoring and central monitoring deliverables with a focus on patient safety, protocol/GCP/regulatory compliance and data integrity.
- Oversees site interactions post activation through site closeout, including patient recruitment, investigator payments, or other related activities.
- May be responsible for identification of critical data and process, protocol execution risks and risk mitigations related to the completion of the Risk Assessment and Categorization Tool (RACT).
- Reviews the study scope of work, budget and protocol content and ensures the clinical project team (CRAs/CeMs) is aware of the contractual obligations and parameters.
- Uses prior clinical experience, operational data, metrics and reports to identify risks to clinical trial management deliverables.
- Escalates to the project manager any risks to clinical trial management deliverables (timeline, quality and budget) and any activities and requests which are out of contracted scope.
- Employs strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to propose and implement risk mitigations.
- Participates and presents in key meetings such as Kick Off Meeting.
- Serves as an escalation point for communications with investigator site staff and may be required to interact on the phone or in person with principal investigators or other site staff members.
- Collaborates with other functional leaders such as Study Start Up, Patient Recruitment and Data Management to coordinate delivery handoffs and meet expected study milestones.
- Responsible for development and ongoing maintenance of clinical study tools and templates, including the Clinical Monitoring Plan.
- Coordinates initial and ongoing training to the study team regarding protocol specificities, Case Report Form (CRF) completion, dashboards, Sponsor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), clinical plans and guidelines, data plans and timelines for the study.
- Oversees resourcing allocations for CRAs and Central Monitors, site assignments and study team members' conduct, and identifies risks to delivery or quality.
- Ensures quality of the clinical monitoring, central monitoring and site management deliverables within a project.
- Reviews the project oversight dashboards and other clinical trial systems to oversee site and patient activities, study team conduct and to ensure the data has been updated to reflect timely execution of all operational aspects.
- Understands the monitoring strategy required for the study and participates in the development of the study risk assessment plan.
- Reviews the content and quality of site and central monitoring documentation to ensure they represent site management activities and conduct.
- Interacts with the client and other functional departments related to clinical monitoring, central monitoring and site management activities and deliverables.
- Demonstrates understanding of other functions' roles in achieving compliance and delivery according to protocol, SOPs, ICH GCP and country regulations.
- Oversees CRAs and Central Monitors assigned to the study and routinely assesses study-specific process and training compliance.
- Provides feedback to line managers on staff performance including strengths as well as areas for development.
- May be assigned to larger, more complex trials.
Qualifications
What we’re looking for
• Bachelor’s degree or RN in a related field or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead and align teams in the achievement of project milestones
• Demonstrated capability of working in an international environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in site management and monitoring (clinical or central)
• Preferred experience with risk-based monitoring
• Demonstrates understanding of clinical trial management financial principles and budget management
• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice/ICH Guidelines and other applicable regulatory requirements
• Must demonstrate good computer skills
• Good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills among project team and with sites
• Strong conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated ability to apply problem solving techniques to resolve complex issues
• Demonstrates critical thinking to determine the cause and appropriate solution in the identification of issues
• Moderate travel may be required, approximately 20%
Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered. The Company will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.
At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.
Syneos Health is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We
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