[Hiring] Clinical Lead II - Rare Diseases / Oncology @Premier Research

Role Description

Premier Research is looking for a Clinical Lead II - Rare Diseases / Oncology to join our Clinical Management team. You will help biotech, medtech, and specialty pharma companies transform life-changing ideas and breakthrough science into new medicines, devices, and diagnostics. What we do is profoundly connected to saving and improving lives, and we recognize our team members are the most valuable asset in delivering success.

We are here to help you grow, to give you the skills and opportunities to excel at work with the flexibility and balance your life requires. Your ideas influence the way we work, and your voice matters here. As an essential part of our team, you help us deliver the medical innovation that patients are desperate for. Join us and build your future here.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Serves as initial point of contact for all site management and monitoring quality concerns, including initiation and oversight of site performance improvement plans (sPIP).
  • Plans, presents and participates in sponsor calls, representing Clinical and SSU function by providing status updates on clinical deliverables.
  • Oversees the quality of clinical monitoring, central monitoring and site management deliverables through the use of dashboards/reporting tools. Strong contributor to the central monitoring plan.
  • Monitors clinical operations metrics, activities and timelines on a regular basis; Tracks data entry timelines, open actions, protocol deviations, queries aging reports, SDR/SDV backlog and monitoring visit report turnaround timelines.
  • Ensures a state of audit readiness for both Premier and sites. Reviews/responds to audit findings and support sites in remediation/responses to any site audit findings.
  • Escalates through the established channels CRA/CM/SSU performance concerns, quality events, data breaches, serious breaches, scientific misconduct or any other event that requires prompt assessment and reporting.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree, or its international equivalent from an accredited institution, in a clinical, biological, scientific, or health-related field; or equivalent work experience.
  • At least 2 years of experience as a Clinical Lead (ideally global) gained in a CRO setting.
  • Prior onsite monitoring experience, ideally to include Risk-Based Monitoring.
  • Prior experience in both Rare Diseases and Oncology, ideally as a Clinical Lead managing trials vs solely in a CRA capacity.
  • Biliary liver disease therapeutic experience, Oncology experience in CAR-T and/or Cell Gene Therapy, and experience working on pediatric trials will be the optimum.
  • Working knowledge of clinical financials including understanding of budgets, pass-through and resource management.
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