Clinical Research Engagement Lead – Central Region

Responsibilities

• You will bridge the gap between strategy and execution across the entire trial lifecycle—from early development to late-stage delivery—ensuring our clinical assets are executed with maximum speed, efficiency, and clinical quality.
• Develops and executes country-level site engagement strategies aligned with internal priorities.
• Conducts early, strategic landscaping and site engagement during the protocol concept and study set-up phases to identify optimal sites.
• Builds deep, multi-stakeholder relationships at strategic sites.
• Serves as the local escalation point for study challenges.
• Partners seamlessly with internal teams and CROs to ensure unified site communication.
• Manages assigned local/global clinical studies by overseeing CRO performance and mitigating timeline or operational risks.
• Focus on driving adoption of DCT and digital solutions with our sites.

• Degree (MD, PhD, MA / MS, BA / BS) in life sciences or equivalent.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant clinical research or clinical operations experience in pharmaceutical, biotech or related industry;
  Sponsor experience preferred.
• Experience in end-to-end product development and expert understanding of ICH/GCP are both essential.
• Understanding of end-to-end clinical trial processes, including monitoring, and strong knowledge of clinical trial regulations and guidelines.
• Proven track record in managing site relationships and overseeing complex clinical trials.
• Exceptional interpersonal, cross-functional, negotiation, and influencing skills with a proven track record of building high-trust, sustainable relationships with internal stakeholders, CROs, and site personnel.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically between 30-50% dependent on business or site needs.

• clinical research
• clinical operations
• end-to-end product development
• ICH
• GCP
• clinical trial processes
• monitoring
• clinical trial regulations
• site engagement strategies
• CRO performance management

• interpersonal skills
• cross-functional collaboration
• negotiation skills
• influencing skills
• relationship building
• problem-solving
• communication skills
• stakeholder management
• trust building
• teamwork

• MD
• PhD
• MA
• MS
• BA
• BS