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Senior Director, Study Start Up (Home or Office Based)

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"At ICON, it's our People that set us Apart"
 
Are you interested in improving your knowledge of Clinical Trials and contributing to our culture of process improvement and helping to grow and drive our SSU and Site Activation team?
 
This is an opportunity for a Sr Director, Study Start Up to implement effective structure and procedures to achieve rapid site activation comprising of regulatory and ethical submissions, site contacts, and drug release process.  The role requires effectively managing the activities of a portfolio of studies in study start up to ensure qualify timelines and targets are met. 
 
The successful candidate would oversee the budget to ensure that costs are appropriately expensed, serve as a senior level liaison with clients, provide input and advice to business development activities, and provide leadership in managing the study start up group. 
  • Take on staff manager duties including direction of staff, salary, interviewing, terminations, career development and goals, training, and performance appraisals. 
  • Oversee study start up activities are conducted according to sponsor timelines and in accordance to internal operating procedures and adhering to quality standards.
  • Drive department deliverables, set priorities, and create strategic plans. 
  • Provide financial oversight of financial activities to ensure profitability including managing the annual budget and revenue/expenses.
  • Function as senior level liaison with clients.
  • Liaise for business development activities.
  • Identify process improvement initiatives and be an agent of change within the organization.
  • Keep senior leadership information of status in relation to both quality and timelines.
  • Travel approximately 25%.
We are a company of 13,500 employees in forty countries globally.  We differentiate ourselves by developing innovative solutions to bring life-saving drugs to market faster and in a more cost-effective way to foster better patient outcomes.  We are a top five clinical research organization with solid earnings and growth potential.  Our belief in excellence is our core value in all that we do for our sponsor partners and the patients that we serve.  As a company we strive to exceed our customers’ expectations in drug development solutions.
 
Other than working with a great team of smart and energetic people, we also offer a very competitive salary and benefits package that includes an excellent retirement plan, health coverage, paid time off, income protection insurance programs, and staff recognition schemes.  We care about our people, since they are the key to our success. We provide an open and friendly work environment where we empower people and provide them with opportunities to develop their long term career.  Caring for patients while enjoying what we do and delivering great results is something we can achieve if we know we can count on each other and have a clear vision of where we want to go.
 
We provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees by prohibiting discrimination in employment decisions because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status or disability.
 

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