Senior Manager, Capabilities and Deployment Lead

Purpose

The Sr. Manager, Capabilities & Deployment Lead is responsible for the successful deployment and adoption of value-added capabilities/initiatives that expertly deliver the portfolio, in collaboration with appropriate stakeholders. This individual will play a key leadership role in ensuring the Delivery Unit's ability to nimbly intake, globally translate, and execute trials with novel aspects, and in harmonization and global standardization within the Delivery Unit in partnership with the Business, Growth, Innovation & Advocacy organization.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Business, Growth, Innovation & Advocacy (BGI&A), other Delivery Units and other functions within and outside of GD to be the bi-directional catalyst for the Delivery Unit to drive and deploy value-added capabilities/initiatives.
• Identify, pilot and communicate Therapeutic Area / Disease Area initiative to broader DU and BGI&A organizations.
• Understand strategies/initiatives to globally translate to the Delivery Unit enabling readiness and excellence in deployment.
• Ensure impactful Delivery Unit representation on global capabilities/initiatives.
• Pro-actively communicate with GCO leadership and draw in expertise to advance deployment and adoption.
• Ensure robust change management and communication plan with input from local and global to ensure readiness to adapt to the future requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required, preferably in Life Sciences (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Nursing, Pharmacy).
• Advanced degree in a scientific discipline and/or Master's degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of clinical research experience acquired in pharmaceutical industry, CRO or investigational site.
• Expertise or experience working in novel clinical research methods, particularly in digital and decentralized clinical trials.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Proven ability to foster team productivity and cohesiveness.
• Ability to manage complexity under pressure.
• Proven track record of project management.
• Strong in strategy development, project execution, stakeholder management, training and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong decision-making and financial management skills.
• Flexibility to work in a rapidly changing environment with the appropriate sense of urgency.
• Experience in transforming organizations in response to business needs.
• Effective issue resolution and ability to generate and implement contingency plans for both productivity and quality issues when required.
• Excellent knowledge of drug development, clinical research operations and regulatory requirements including ICH-GCP, HCC and applicable regulations.
• Ability to synthesize and evaluate data generated from various reports and sources.
• Demonstrated skills in effective communication with various internal and external stakeholders (e.g. investigational sites, ethics committees, health authorities, etc.).
• Operates with limited supervision.
• Proficiency in English.
• Computer literate.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to collaborate and handle multiple priorities within a matrix environment.
• Perform activities in a timely and accurate manner.
• Can travel internationally up to 10% of the time.