Executive Director, Global Site Management

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• Establish and advance the global strategy for country key opinion leader, investigator, and site relationships
• Set direction and governance for global study execution, clinical site monitoring, and issue escalation across the portfolio
• Sponsor risk-based, study-specific monitoring strategies and ensure their consistent implementation and effectiveness
• Define enterprise performance, quality, compliance, and productivity expectations for site management and monitoring activities
• Champion standardization, digital enablement, innovation, and measurable value creation across the global operating model
• Own the global workforce and capability strategy for site management, including multi-year FTE and external-capacity forecasts, headcount planning, allocation, utilization, leadership development, and succession across CTL and CRA organizations
• Hold executive accountability for the global vendor strategy, CRO/FSP contracting worth $10M for CRAs and $10M for CTLs, associated investment, capacity, and performance
• Lead senior-level vendor governance, commercial and operational decisions, and corrective interventions when performance or quality is at risk
• Oversee management of data and quality issues at the country/site level, partnering with study management, data management, Quality Management Leads and other stakeholders
• Partner with Global Monitoring Oversight, Central Monitoring, Vendor Relationship Management and counterparts at CROs to ensure alignment on risk-based monitoring strategies, standards and training requirements
• Serve as the enterprise thought leader and senior subject matter authority for global site management
• Establish the global CTL capability model, accountabilities, standards, and measures that support study feasibility, site identification and selection, patient recruitment and retention, and resolution of complex investigator-site issues

This role requires

• Minimum Bachelors Degree (Advanced Degree preferred) with 17+ years of experience including 10+ years of functional leadership and people management
• Expert knowledge of drug development, global clinical operations, clinical monitoring, site management, GCP, and applicable regulations
• Extensive experience leading global clinical trial operations and enterprise transformation across multiple therapeutic areas, regions, and development stages
• Experience working with/establishing global clinical site relationships; cross cultural awareness and fluent in Business English
• Proven executive leadership in setting vision, leading through ambiguity, building high-performing global organizations, developing senior talent, shaping culture, and delivering sustained change at scale
• Demonstrated success leading leaders and managing performance across global, matrixed, and partner-based organizations
• Executive presence and exceptional communication, influence, negotiation, and decision-making skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated collaborative as well as independent working style
• Proactive and self-motivated, ability to align activities with the clinical development plans (CDPs)
• Strong organizational skills with effective use of time and prioritization