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Homebased within the US or Canada.\nWHAT YOU WILL DOYou will utilize your skills, knowledge, and clinical judgement to provide a high standard of care for participants in clinical trials and respond to emergency situations based upon clinical research standards.\nJob Overview:Clinical Team Leads (CTL) own the clinical delivery of clinical research trials. CTLs function as the Clinical Project Manager (CPM) within the core project team. CTLs partner with the Project Manager and other functional leads to ensure successful delivery of the clinical aspects of a trial within contractual and budgetary requirements. The CTL oversees the clinical and site management aspects of the trial. The CTL represents clinical delivery with the given customer.\nResponsibilities:\n\nTake accountability for proactively driving clinical project performance toward contracted deliverables while meeting customer needs and maintaining operational excellence.\n\nDrive communication and collaboration with the client and project team across a matrixed, multicultural, environment.\n\nLead the development of the clinical project strategy and ensures prioritization with the clinical project team and key stakeholders in the creation of clear, data driven strategies and proactive management of project scope, timelines, quality and budget. In collaboration with relevant departments, prepare and deliver presentations for new business as required.\n\nManage the operational aspects of projects to support subject recruitment and retention, clinical vendor delivery and oversee the monitoring visit strategy.\n\nIdentify clinical project, financial and quality risks leveraging end to end risk management practices and quality by design principles.\n\nAppropriately utilize data sources, dashboards and risk management strategies to drive innovation and proactive problem solving with the project and client teams.\n\nAdhere to project governance and issue escalation pathways, ensuring that clinical project plans are in place to address identified risk while adhering to professional standards, SOPs, client and regulatory requirements\n\nPartner with project team members and key stakeholders to oversee and manage clinical project budgets, resources and scope.\n\nEnsure adherence to established budget and financial milestones. Accountable for accurately forecasting clinical project revenue and managing project costs in adherence to the budget.\n\nLeading the timely management of changes to scope and the change order process. Ensures project team awareness and tracking of KPIs for any client specific metrics.\n\nProvide inspiring leadership and play a key role in the creation of high performing clinical project teams. Facilitating communication and teamwork while driving delivery, ensuring that clinical team members understand contracted scope, timelines and budget.\n\nEnsures that clinical resource projections are accurate and visible to resourcing teams, proactively escalating resource constraints and challenges.\n\nDevelops and mentors team members in multiple areas of expertise and provide feedback as needed to respective line managers\n\nAs required by the project roles participate and oversee the regulatory/ethics committee submissions, tracking, and documentation.\n\nSupport new business with active participation in Bid Defense preparation and meetings, as required.\n\nAnd all other duties as needed or assigned\n\nQualifications (Minimum Required):\nUniversity/college degree (life science preferred) or certification in a related allied health profession (i.e. nursing, medical or laboratory technology) from an appropriately accredited institution\n\nFortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.\n\nFluent in English, both written and verbal.\n\nExperience (Minimum Required):\n2+ years of Clinical Team Lead experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform key responsibilities of the job.\n\nWorking knowledge of ICH Guidelines and GCP including international regulatory requirements for the conduct of clinical development programs.\n\nAdvanced computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, Access and Power Point).\n\nExperience managing projects in a matrix and virtual environment.\n\nExcellent communication, planning and organizational skills.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead by example and to encourage team members to seek solutions independently Demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing priorities and to utilize resources effectively.\n\nDemonstrated ability to inspire effective teamwork and motivate staff within a matrix system.\n\nFinancial awareness and ability to actively and effectively utilize financial tracking systems.\n\nAbility to work independently and mentor junior project team members.\n\nAbility to negotiate and liaise with clients in a professional manner.\n\nAbility to present to staff at all levels.\n\nPreferred Qualifications Include:\nMaster or other advanced degree\n\nPMP certification 2+ years CRA experience, on-site or in-house\n\nPhase I/FIH experience\n\nIn lieu of the above minimum requirement, candidates with three or more years of relevance clinical research experience in pharmaceutical, CRO or health care setting will be considered\n\nThe important thing for us is you are comfortable working in an environment that is:\n\nFast paced: where no deviations from the study protocol are allowed, and not meeting a timeline for even few minutes will create a quality issue.\n\nChanging priorities constantly asking you to prioritize and adapt on the spot.\n\nTeamwork and people skills are essential for the study to run smoothly.\n\nTechnology based. We collect our data directly into an electronic environment.\n\nWhat do you get?Regular, full-time or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:\n\nMedical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD (multiple insurance carriers)\n\n401(K)\n\nPaid time off (PTO) – Flex Plan\n\nEmployee recognition awards\n\nMultiple ERG’s (employee resource groups)\n\nTarget Pay Range (based on title): $135-145K\n\nWork Environment:\nWork is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.\n\nFrequent travel to clients/ site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.\n\nPhysical Demands/Work Environment:\nStandard Office Environment or remote based work required\n\nWeekend and off-hour work as required\n\nTravel Requirements: up to 30% (Global – primary domestic and international)\n\n#LI - RemoteApplications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.\nLearn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here.\n\nThis job is curated by Lifelancer.Lifelancer is a talent-hiring platform in Life Sciences, Pharma and IT. 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