About the role
Primary Location: Canada, Ontario, Remote
Additional Locations: Canada, Alberta, Remote; Canada, Quebec, Remote
Job ID R0000034870
Category Clinical Trials
ABOUT THIS ROLE
The Start Up Project Manager is responsible for defining, developing and delivering the global start up project strategy by partnering with roles across GSSO, CD&O, Global Regulatory Submissions and others as required. The SUPM will be assigned to one or more interventional studies in one or more therapy areas such as oncology, vaccines, internal medicine, rare disease or inflammation and immunology. The responsibility of the SUPM typically ends when all investigative sites are activated and ready to enroll participants, however this can extend further into the participant recruitment period to specifically deliver the implementation of protocol amendments across active sites for selected studies. The SUPM will have a comprehensive knowledge of managing and coordinating study start up activities globally. The SUPM will typically take full responsibility for small to medium size studies located in a single country or region, or for selected countries or region(s) within a larger global study where another SUPM is responsible for the site activations of the entire study. The SUPM is the leader of the start up sub team for the study, region(s) or countries assigned.
Project Management:
- Partner with country/site feasibility specialists to incorporate up to date intelligence for the planned countries and sites into the overall start up strategy and site activation plan
- Partner and co-ordinate across teams responsible for regulatory submissions (local and country) and start up functions (e.g. site essential document collection, site contracts and budgets) to align country and site activities to form a robust start-up strategy and site activation plan
- Continually assess current and future workload (with other SUPMs on study if applicable) in order to proactively anticipate, problem solve and request appropriate changes to the SUPM team assigned to deliver site activations to plan
- As part of the responsibility of delivering site activations to plan the SUPM will co-ordinate with many different roles working at the study and country level to oversee progress of the study specific (e.g. Vendor set-up, investigational product supply etc.) or country specific tasks (e.g. Regulatory submissions, importer of record for supplies etc.) that need to be completed in order for site activations in turn to complete
- Provide project management of activities directly required to complete all site activations for an assigned study as part of a study management led team to complete all start up activities for a study
- Lead start up meetings that facilitate alignment of site selection to activation activities performed by country level start up roles with the endorsed trial optimization plan (by senior leadership). Start up meetings use the ongoing risk assessment of site activation delivery to form a focused agenda according to risk level, the overall goal is the delivery of major study milestones to plan (e.g. first subject first visit) as well as the overall delivery of major site activations to plan (25%, 50% and 90% of planned site activations)
- The SUPM will work with country level start up roles to seek opportunities to accelerate site activations for their study, they will do so while considering the relative priority of their study compared to all concurrent studies in start up that country level start up roles are working on
Plan Delivery:
- Accountable for quality and completeness of start up timeline plans at study, country and site level within an enterprise project management (EPM) system, either directly responsible for setting and maintaining timelines (study level) or oversight of other roles setting and maintaining timelines (country and site level)
- Responsible for creating and overseeing the initial baseline and subsequent snapshots of timeline planning within the EPM system which build the overall targets for site activation over time
- In conjunction with study management roles is responsible for ensuring consistent participant compensation for sites and institutions taking part in multiple studies concurrently to eliminate knock-on impact across studies
- Expertly integrate the requirements of a protocol amendment(s) to deliver site activations to plan, on request manage the green lighting of sites to implement a protocol amendment after sites are activated for assigned study, region(s) or countries
- The SUPM is responsible for delivering site activations to plan, for the SUPM this can be for all sites for an entire study or a portion of sites in specific countries in one or more regions
- Responsible for the completeness and quality of site activation timeline plans for every site from investigator initiation package sent for first site in study, to site activation complete for last site in study. Will work with and drive all timeline plan owners (e.g. country start up roles) to actively manage the site activation timeline plans for their assigned sites. The SUPM will have a detailed understanding of the timeline for every site:
Risk Mitigation:
- Coordinates across the study team and extended partners to deliver site activations to plan for the study or regions/countries assigned, assesses the ongoing site activation readiness status as well as proactively identifying and mitigating risks
- Act as a key point of escalations for site activation related issues raised by country level start up roles, seeking to firstly resolve issues directly or triage appropriately to other SUPMs on the study or the study management team, will always follow through to resolution
Skills:
- Country or Regional start up exposure/experience in the countries under responsibility across at least two major therapeutic areas
- Technical expertise in use of software (off the shelf and custom) for the management of clinical studies with prowess in using reporting systems (dashboards and associated basic data analysis) to comprehend and communicate status
- Ability to use basic generative artificial intelligence techniques in daily work
- Will use standard risk management methodology to identify and mitigate key risks
- Fluency in English is required
Knowledge and Experience:
- Extensive global start up clinical trial/study management experience
- Comprehensive working knowledge of Good Clinical Practices, monitoring, clinical and regulatory operations
- Extensive knowledge of clinical trial methodology
- Demonstrated start up experience
- Demonstrated project management experience
Education:
- A scientific or technical degree is preferred
- Must have a BS/BA – 5 years relevant experience
- MS/PhD – 3 years relevant experience
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About Parexel
Parexel is among the world’s largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. Leveraging the breadth of our clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our team of more than 21,000 global professionals collaborates with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind, increasing access and participation to make clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere. Our depth of industry knowledge and strong track record gained over the past 40 years is moving the industry forward and advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas, while our innovation ecosystem offers the best solutions to make every phase of the clinical trial process more efficient. With the people, insight and focus on operational excellence, we work With HeartTM every day to treat patients with dignity and continuously learn from their experiences, so every trial makes a difference. For more information, visit parexel.com.
Community Guidelines Because Parexel’s social media channels are open to the general public and employees, we are not responsible for views expressed other than our own. However, we do not tolerate posts that are:
• Abusive, harassing or threatening to others. • Defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence. • Hateful targeting by race/ethnicity, age, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual preference or orientation, nationality or political beliefs. • Sexually explicit or pornographic. • Fraudulent, deceptive, libelous, misleading or unlawful. • Referencing criminal or illegal activity. • Spamming.
We reserve the right to remove any comments that do not adhere to our guidelines as well as report users who violate the rules of our page.
About the role
Primary Location: Canada, Ontario, Remote
Additional Locations: Canada, Alberta, Remote; Canada, Quebec, Remote
Job ID R0000034870
Category Clinical Trials
ABOUT THIS ROLE
The Start Up Project Manager is responsible for defining, developing and delivering the global start up project strategy by partnering with roles across GSSO, CD&O, Global Regulatory Submissions and others as required. The SUPM will be assigned to one or more interventional studies in one or more therapy areas such as oncology, vaccines, internal medicine, rare disease or inflammation and immunology. The responsibility of the SUPM typically ends when all investigative sites are activated and ready to enroll participants, however this can extend further into the participant recruitment period to specifically deliver the implementation of protocol amendments across active sites for selected studies. The SUPM will have a comprehensive knowledge of managing and coordinating study start up activities globally. The SUPM will typically take full responsibility for small to medium size studies located in a single country or region, or for selected countries or region(s) within a larger global study where another SUPM is responsible for the site activations of the entire study. The SUPM is the leader of the start up sub team for the study, region(s) or countries assigned.
Project Management:
- Partner with country/site feasibility specialists to incorporate up to date intelligence for the planned countries and sites into the overall start up strategy and site activation plan
- Partner and co-ordinate across teams responsible for regulatory submissions (local and country) and start up functions (e.g. site essential document collection, site contracts and budgets) to align country and site activities to form a robust start-up strategy and site activation plan
- Continually assess current and future workload (with other SUPMs on study if applicable) in order to proactively anticipate, problem solve and request appropriate changes to the SUPM team assigned to deliver site activations to plan
- As part of the responsibility of delivering site activations to plan the SUPM will co-ordinate with many different roles working at the study and country level to oversee progress of the study specific (e.g. Vendor set-up, investigational product supply etc.) or country specific tasks (e.g. Regulatory submissions, importer of record for supplies etc.) that need to be completed in order for site activations in turn to complete
- Provide project management of activities directly required to complete all site activations for an assigned study as part of a study management led team to complete all start up activities for a study
- Lead start up meetings that facilitate alignment of site selection to activation activities performed by country level start up roles with the endorsed trial optimization plan (by senior leadership). Start up meetings use the ongoing risk assessment of site activation delivery to form a focused agenda according to risk level, the overall goal is the delivery of major study milestones to plan (e.g. first subject first visit) as well as the overall delivery of major site activations to plan (25%, 50% and 90% of planned site activations)
- The SUPM will work with country level start up roles to seek opportunities to accelerate site activations for their study, they will do so while considering the relative priority of their study compared to all concurrent studies in start up that country level start up roles are working on
Plan Delivery:
- Accountable for quality and completeness of start up timeline plans at study, country and site level within an enterprise project management (EPM) system, either directly responsible for setting and maintaining timelines (study level) or oversight of other roles setting and maintaining timelines (country and site level)
- Responsible for creating and overseeing the initial baseline and subsequent snapshots of timeline planning within the EPM system which build the overall targets for site activation over time
- In conjunction with study management roles is responsible for ensuring consistent participant compensation for sites and institutions taking part in multiple studies concurrently to eliminate knock-on impact across studies
- Expertly integrate the requirements of a protocol amendment(s) to deliver site activations to plan, on request manage the green lighting of sites to implement a protocol amendment after sites are activated for assigned study, region(s) or countries
- The SUPM is responsible for delivering site activations to plan, for the SUPM this can be for all sites for an entire study or a portion of sites in specific countries in one or more regions
- Responsible for the completeness and quality of site activation timeline plans for every site from investigator initiation package sent for first site in study, to site activation complete for last site in study. Will work with and drive all timeline plan owners (e.g. country start up roles) to actively manage the site activation timeline plans for their assigned sites. The SUPM will have a detailed understanding of the timeline for every site:
Risk Mitigation:
- Coordinates across the study team and extended partners to deliver site activations to plan for the study or regions/countries assigned, assesses the ongoing site activation readiness status as well as proactively identifying and mitigating risks
- Act as a key point of escalations for site activation related issues raised by country level start up roles, seeking to firstly resolve issues directly or triage appropriately to other SUPMs on the study or the study management team, will always follow through to resolution
Skills:
- Country or Regional start up exposure/experience in the countries under responsibility across at least two major therapeutic areas
- Technical expertise in use of software (off the shelf and custom) for the management of clinical studies with prowess in using reporting systems (dashboards and associated basic data analysis) to comprehend and communicate status
- Ability to use basic generative artificial intelligence techniques in daily work
- Will use standard risk management methodology to identify and mitigate key risks
- Fluency in English is required
Knowledge and Experience:
- Extensive global start up clinical trial/study management experience
- Comprehensive working knowledge of Good Clinical Practices, monitoring, clinical and regulatory operations
- Extensive knowledge of clinical trial methodology
- Demonstrated start up experience
- Demonstrated project management experience
Education:
- A scientific or technical degree is preferred
- Must have a BS/BA – 5 years relevant experience
- MS/PhD – 3 years relevant experience
#LI-LO1
#LI-REMOTE
About Parexel
Parexel is among the world’s largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. Leveraging the breadth of our clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our team of more than 21,000 global professionals collaborates with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind, increasing access and participation to make clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere. Our depth of industry knowledge and strong track record gained over the past 40 years is moving the industry forward and advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas, while our innovation ecosystem offers the best solutions to make every phase of the clinical trial process more efficient. With the people, insight and focus on operational excellence, we work With HeartTM every day to treat patients with dignity and continuously learn from their experiences, so every trial makes a difference. For more information, visit parexel.com.
Community Guidelines Because Parexel’s social media channels are open to the general public and employees, we are not responsible for views expressed other than our own. However, we do not tolerate posts that are:
• Abusive, harassing or threatening to others. • Defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence. • Hateful targeting by race/ethnicity, age, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual preference or orientation, nationality or political beliefs. • Sexually explicit or pornographic. • Fraudulent, deceptive, libelous, misleading or unlawful. • Referencing criminal or illegal activity. • Spamming.
We reserve the right to remove any comments that do not adhere to our guidelines as well as report users who violate the rules of our page.