Associate Director, Clinical Operations Program Lead, Study Start-up & Feasibility

Sarepta is on an urgent mission: engineer precision genetic medicine for rare diseases that devastate lives and cut futures short. We hold a leadership position in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and are building a robust portfolio of programs across muscle, central nervous system, and cardiac diseases. Our next-generation siRNA platform is focused on chronically administered therapies for neurodegenerative and pulmonary diseases. We’re looking for people who see unlimited potential in themselves and who are motivated by an unwavering commitment to patients.

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We are seeking an associate director-level candidate with clinical operations experience, with specific expertise in feasibility and study start-up, who is interested in applying their experience to develop, build out, and implement innovative feasibility and study start-up activities within Sarepta that positively impacts our clinical programs. The Associate Director, Clinical Operations Program Lead, Study Start-up and Feasibility will report to the Director, Patient Recruitment and Start-Up Strategy and lead a team to drive the strategy and implementation of country and site feasibility for our studies and support the internalization of country and site feasibility.

Additionally, the candidate will work with early research and other stakeholders to build out the oversight model for Feasibility & Study Start-up. The candidate will drive the study start-up activities and be responsible for oversight of timelines and goals with respect to our clinical studies. The candidate will be responsible for
1) directing and overseeing the success of Sarepta’s clinical trial feasibility process,
2) leading the development of feasibility and start-up strategies including study-specific plans,
3) directing and overseeing the success of the Sarepta’s clinical trial start-up activities, and
4) working with both internal and external vendors. This is a highly cross-functional position, collaborating with internal teams, CROs, and vendors. The candidate must be comfortable working directly with clinical trial sites. The contribution of the candidate directly supports the goals of the Development Operations organization under R&D. This is a great opportunity for an individual with an operational background and innovative mindset to help us accelerate study execution to support Sarepta’s goal of Patient’s First.

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Responsibilities Include:

• Develop and implement the feasibility and start-up strategies to support the success of Sarepta clinical studies.
• Gather cross-functional, country-level input to inform robust feasibility strategies.
• Develop and manage integrated feasibility and site start-up timelines, and report on progress, including plans to address potential timing risks or gaps.
• Establish study specific meeting series to review clinical trial feasibility data and start-up activities with study leads, MSLs, and the CRO.
• The candidate will report metrics to larger teams including senior management.
• Lead calls with Sarepta and the CRO to…