Associate Director, Site Budgets
Listed on 2026-09-22
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Management
About CTI
CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services is a global, privately held, full-service clinical contract research organization (CRO) focused on the advancement of treatments for chronically and critically ill patient populations. We assist clinical research throughout the lifecycle of development, from drug concept to commercialization. CTI is headquartered in the Greater Cincinnati, OH region with global operations in collaboration with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device firms.
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CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services is a global, privately held, full-service clinical contract research organization (CRO) focused on the advancement of treatments for chronically and critically ill patient populations. We assist clinical research throughout the lifecycle of development, from drug concept to commercialization. CTI is headquartered in the Greater Cincinnati, OH region with global operations in collaboration with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device firms.
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The Associate Director, Site Budgets provides leadership in the development, management and oversight of the trial site budgets team. The Associate Director also serves as the high-level operational contact with leadership and is responsible for coordinating the standardization and best practices for CTI site budget development processes. Focus is on organizational development to enhance cross-functional collaboration and to foster highly effective site budget execution for clinical trials.
What You’ll Do:- Champion operational excellence, providing clear direction, prioritization, coaching, performance management and ongoing optimization to ensure consistent and high-quality on-time delivery.
- Ensure team deliverables meet established timelines, quality standards and business requirements across studies and projects.
- Proactively identify risks, capacity constraints, bottlenecks and upcoming milestones and implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Ensuring budgets are appropriately structured, aligned with study, sponsor and regulatory requirements as well as organizational standards.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate and optimize workflows in collaboration with Site Activation and cross-functional teams to improve cycle times, quality, scalability and stakeholder experience.
- Establish and maintain standardized budget processes, tools, templates and operating procedures for site budget management, ensuring consistent execution across studies, regions and teams.
- Monitor and analyze operational data and trends to identify opportunities for improved performance, anticipate challenges and provide actionable insights to senior leaders.
- Lead resolution and escalation of complex or high-risk budget issues ensuring timely decision-making and appropriate escalation when study timelines, sponsor relationships, financial objectives or study delivery may be impacted.
- Drive adoption of organizational change, new processes, systems and ways of working while ensuring team remains aligned with evolving business needs, industry practices and organizational objectives.
- Site Activation team to share lessons learned and ensure continuous, streamlined improvement of the budget processes,
- Plan, implement, facilitate, and evaluate the full execution of assigned clinical trials; may oversee management of multiple clinical trials from the planning phase to the analysis phase for delivery to client
- Serve as primary senior interface on the project with executive management at CTI and the sponsor; provide effective client management to prevent and mitigate trial issues; elevate identified trial, CPM or CTI issues to executive management as…
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