Clinical Research Associate Manager

Job Description This role will be key to ensure strong monitoring in our clinical trials. Under the oversight of the Clinical Research Director (CRD) or Head of Site Management and Monitoring, the person is responsible to manage a team of 6-14 Clinical Research Associates (CRAs)and to ensure excellent study and site performance with strict adherence to local regulations, company SOPs and ICH GCP. As Associate Director, the role is critical to continuously develop key talents by providing training, support and mentoring to the CRAs and properly manage situation of low or non-performance. The role will work at country level with other local stakeholder e.g. Clinical Research Managers (CRM) to ensure alignment and development of the country capabilities. The role will collaborate with country Partner Line Managers (PLMs) to ensure alignment across all monitoring functions. The person contributes to HQ capacity/resource planning activities to ensure efficient allocation of resources and work. This person will work primarily in Vaccine/Infectious Disease with some Cardiovascular therapeutic areas. Responsibilities: Work allocation, staff development and performance appraisal. Support departmental company initiatives and workstreams. Provides input for capacity planning, including reporting of current manpower and forecasting of CRA capacity and needs, to provide efficient use of resources. Work with CRAs, PLMS and other functions to ensure consistency of processes and protocol imp