Director, Centralized Monitoring

Company: Ipsen Biopharm Ltd

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The Centralized Monitoring Director is a leadership role responsible for defining, implementing, and governing Centralized and risk-based monitoring (RBM) strategies across the company’s clinical development portfolio. This role ensures high-quality oversight of clinical trials by leveraging advanced analytics, Centralized data review, and innovative technologies to proactively identify and mitigate risks, safeguard patient safety, and ensure data integrity and regulatory compliance. As a sponsor-side leader, this role provides strategic direction and oversight of internal teams and external partners, ensuring alignment with global regulatory expectations and corporate quality standards.

• Define and implement the Centralized monitoring and RBM strategy across the assigned region, ensuring alignment with the global CDO strategy.
• Establish policies, SOPs, and governance frameworks aligned with global regulations.
• Ensure consistent implementation across clinical programs within the assigned region and alignment with global standards.
• Provide input into protocol and study design.
• Interacts with and influences all levels of management and cross-functional team members in Clinical Development Operations to achieve high standards in Centralized Monitoring.
• Partner with Clinical Operations, Data Management, Biostatistics, Quality, and Technology teams to drive integrated data surveillance.

• Provides strategic direction, leadership, and oversight to the assigned CM team, ensuring the successful delivery of CM activities and study deliverables across assigned projects.
• Leads the development, training, mentoring, and performance of departmental staff while fostering effective collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Provides strategic oversight of Centralized monitoring activities to ensure quality, timely risk identification and data-driven decision making throughout study execution. Drive RBM adoption at study design stage.
• Determine and oversee Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and Quality Tolerance Limits (QTLs) to enhance study success.
• Identify cross-study and portfolio-level risks.
• Monitor portfolio-level trends and recommend proactive mitigation strategies to senior leadership.

• Oversee Centralized monitoring activities performed internally and by Service Providers.
• Ensure adherence to RBM standards and KPIs.
• Review monitoring outputs and risk signals.
• Serve as escalation point for critical risks.

• Lead analytics and dashboard development.
• Enable real-time data-driven decision making.
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