Summary
About the Role
- Responsible for key account network within the country and tailored engagement model with assigned sites according to local and structural needs of these sites
- Prepares and implements Site Partnership Strategy Plans in cooperation with assigned accounts
- Defines measures of success for each site in scope (e.g., % increase in portfolio volume, patient density, start-up, and contracting timelines)
- Single point of contact for all relevant stakeholders (e.g., departments heads, investigators, pharmacists, clinic administration) across all therapeutic areas at assigned sites regarding all study overarching topics
- Supports feasibility process in close cooperation with Feasibility Manager
- Supports and optimizes early site engagement, speed of site initiation readiness as well as achievement of committed patient numbers in the assigned sites
- Support sites in developing network with other departments to improve study start-up, patient management and recruitment
- Support negotiation of study fees, contracts, contract templates and master templates as applicable.
- Optimizes Novartis processes to simplify and speed up study start-up with focus on site set-up
- Communicates knowledge regarding sites and the overarching topics to the organization and informs and advises relevant functions actively (e. g. site selections)
Minimum Requirements:
- Strong experience in clinical research in the UK
- Capable of leading in a matrix environment, without direct reports
- Understanding of all aspects of clinical drug development with particular emphasis on study execution.
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Excellent influencing and presentation skills
- Demonstrated negotiation and conflict resolution skills both internal and external (site relationships)
Nice to have:
- A strategic mindset
Benefits and rewards:
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Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve
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Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
