Clinical Operations Lead ; Oncology

Everest Clinical Research (“Everest”) is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today.

Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence. Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO. Everest’s Corporate headquarters are located in Ontario, Canada and US headquarters in New Jersey, USA, with additional physical offices in Asia and Europe.

Everest is known in the industry for its high-quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients’ needs. A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success.

Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength…that’s us…that’s Everest.

To drive continued success in this exciting clinical research field, we are seeking committed, skilled, and customer-focused individuals to join our winning team as
Clinical Operations Lead for our Toronto/Markham, Ontario, Canada on-site location, or remotely from a home-based office anywhere in Canada in accordance with our Work from Home policy.

The Clinical Operations Lead will serve as the clinical functional lead, accountable for the site management/clinical monitoring delivery of assigned tasks and project(s) as per scope. The position will provide leadership, mentoring, and technical support to the Clinical Operations team to ensure quality deliverables and achievement of milestones and financial goals. The Clinical Operations Lead is responsible for tracking study progress and assessing compliance of the conduct of clinical trials with regulatory requirements, the clinical study protocol, study-specific plans, and Standard Operating Procedures.

• Provide leadership, local/global strategic planning and operational delivery of assigned clinical studies/program through all phases of study management (study start-up, conduct/maintenance, closure), in accordance with Everest quality standards, all applicable regulations, timelines and budget commitments.
• Ensure the effective identification, initiation and motivation (patient recruitment/retention) of clinical study sites.
• Focus on internal and external customers service (Sponsors, study sites, vendors) related to site management and clinical monitoring activities to ensure timely and high quality deliverables through CTMS/eTMF and/or tracking tools.
• Provide oversight and quality control review for set-up and maintenance of studies in Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) and Trial Master File (TMF).
• Plan and conduct initial and ongoing training for the study team on project-specific matters and enlists therapeutic assistance where applicable.
• Drive the successful activation of trial sites according to time, quality/scope and budget parameters.
• Serve as initial point of contact for all clinical management and monitoring issues, vendors and other functional areas, escalating as required.
• Develop a monitoring plan as well as monitoring tools.
• Oversee the preparation, conduct and timely completion of all monitoring visit reports, reviews them for appropriate content, and ensures effective follow up and resolution of site issues. May conduct monitoring visits as necessary.
• Collaborate with other functional departments to identify issues and risks to clinical activities; assists in the development…