Global Study Manager – FSP

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About the role

  • Global Study Manager leading operational delivery of Parexel’s clinical trials, from study startup through database release and inspection readiness. Overseeing CROs, vendors, budgets, sites, and cross-functional study teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate global clinical trial execution from sourcing strategy and study specification through database release and inspection readiness
  • Oversee study management, site management, CRO, and vendor deliverables throughout the study lifecycle
  • Coordinate regional and country operations and CRO activities
  • Set recruitment targets, delivery milestones, study startup, monitoring, and study-level plans
  • Serve as a core team member and operational sub-team representative
  • Drive operational decision-making and partner with the Clinical Study Team Lead on strategy
  • Supervise and mentor Study Operational Managers and potentially other Global Study Managers
  • Develop, review, and approve startup, monitoring, recruitment, training, and other study plans
  • Oversee drug supply management and interactive randomization system setup
  • Manage vendor oversight, escalations, feasibility outputs, site approvals, and site activation plans
  • Ensure Trial Master File setup and contribute to risk planning
  • Coordinate study and protocol training and global investigator meetings
  • Provide clinical trial budget inputs and monitor vendor budgets, contracts, invoices, purchase orders, and spend
  • Resolve or triage site-level issues and lead inspection readiness and site readiness activities
  • Support decentralized capabilities at investigator sites
  • Ensure timely study closure and resource release
  • Review study metrics, analytics, data reports, and dashboards; mitigate risks and resolve issues
  • Interface with CRO feasibility, startup, monitoring, management, and site contracting groups
  • Coordinate with data management to ensure data flow and timely delivery
  • Assess enrollment and discontinuations for financial forecasting
  • Provide operational input into protocol design and lead protocol deviation trend reviews
  • Facilitate routine study management vendor calls
  • Serve as a technical expert for study management systems and processes
  • Champion harmonized processes and high-quality, timely clinical trial data deliverables
  • Provide technical oversight, continuous improvement, issue escalation and resolution, inspection readiness, quality assurance, performance feedback, and metrics review
  • Identify and resolve study operations staff performance issues
  • Support project-specific audits and inspections

Requirements

  • Experience in clinical research and/or study management
  • Study management and leadership experience
  • Experience overseeing CROs and vendors
  • Experience managing per-subject costs, vendor and ancillary costs, monitoring cost projections, and spend
  • Fluency in written and spoken English required
  • Ability to work outside core business hours as required to support global trials or initiatives
  • Ability to travel as required, including investigator meetings, vendor kick-off and re-set meetings, and client internal global or department-level meetings
  • Exceptional knowledge of study management processes and deliverables
  • Knowledge of responsibilities beyond one's function to ensure study goals are met
  • Expertise within the assigned therapeutic area and study
  • Working knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), monitoring, clinical operations, and regulatory operations
  • Bachelor's of Science or Bachelor's of Arts degree with a minimum 7 years of relevant operational clinical trial experience required
  • Master's of Science or Master's of Business Administration degree with a minimum 6 years of relevant operational clinical trial experience required
  • Scientific or technical degree preferred
  • Exceptional knowledge of own discipline and advanced knowledge of others
  • Ability to lead complex projects and develop innovative solutions to complex problems

Benefits

  • Global remote work arrangement
  • Opportunities to participate in global investigator meetings, vendor kick-off and re-set meetings, and client internal global or department-level meetings
  • Professional mentorship and supervision opportunities

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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