Daiichi Sankyo, Inc Hiring for Associate Director, Clinical Trial Business Operations (CTBO) job in Remote Full Time

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Daiichi Sankyo Group is dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical therapies to improve standards of care and address diversified, unmet medical needs of people globally by leveraging our world-class science and technology. With more than 100 years of scientific expertise and a presence in more than 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo and its 15,000 employees around the world draw upon a rich legacy of innovation and a robust pipeline of promising new medicines to help people. Under the Group’s 2025 Vision to become a “Global Pharma Innovator with Competitive Advantage in Oncology,” Daiichi Sankyo is primarily focused on providing novel therapies in oncology, as well as other research areas centered around rare diseases and immune disorders.

Summary

The Associate Director, CTBO provides leadership, support and facilitation of appropriate GCO Leadership Forum(s) dedicated to the identification and resolution of high impact and/or systemic issues & risks impacting the performance and delivery of global clinical operations. The role is part of the Clinical Trial Business Operations (CTBO) group in Global Clinical Operations (GCO). Key areas in scope of this position include but not limited to – resource/capacity demand and supply management, identification of performance trends to input into functional excellence efforts, metrics and technology needs, and support of strategic partnerships with vendors and associated resourcing strategies. This position is expected to lead, support and facilitate appropriate GCO level forums that analyze and make decisions on several non-clinical project efforts. Depending on business needs, the position may also lead and or assist the Director, CTBO or other leaders in CTBO/GCO on several business operations efforts and initiatives in addition to the stated areas above to meet GCO goals and vision. The position will also partner closely with the R&D Excellence team as a business partner and representative of GCO. The positions requires a mix of core clinical research operations knowledge and associated business processes and implementation experience of non-clinical projects.

Responsibilities:

Lead, support and facilitate GCO Leadership Forum(s):

• Support the establishing refining of the scope of areas to be included in the appropriate GCO Leadership Forum (called Performance and Delivery (PD) Forum) that is dedicated for identification and resolution of high impact and/or systemic issues risks impacting the performance and delivery of global clinical operations. Support in collaboration with the Head of the PD group, the successful planning, organization and delivery of intended goals of the PD meetings. Lead, support and facilitate the Performance and Delivery (PD) Forum.
• Lead and coordinate with relevant CTBO and GCO LT members effective planning and preparation of presentation materials including agendas for the PD Forum.
• Identify key stakeholders (internal and external to GCO) and effectively collaborate and engage them to identify, communicate, prepare materials for PD forum discussions to resolve issues risks.
• Support communication of key issues risks and outcomes of PD forum to internal and external to GCO stakeholders including other cross functional sr. leadership teams and forums.
• Support influencing the shift in mindset to foster transparency in communication of risks and issues, and collaboration for solutioning across GCO and cross functional leadership in support of meeting performance and delivery goals of global clinical operations.

Lead and support GCO Capacity Demand and Supply Resourcing Strategies:

• Lead and support appropriate planning, understanding and identification of gaps in overall GCO demand and supply of resources to meet GCO’s book of work. Scope includes building GCO specific processes to streamline resourcing related processes while aligning with any RD specific processes that may exist.
• Lead efforts to understand current and future capacity demand and supply needs of the GCO department spanning various delivery models (CRO or in sourced).
• Identify and deliver (in collaboration with RDEx) adequate reporting and understanding of the active and future book of work, resource capacity utilization, current and upcoming gap to current and future portfolio. Effectively communicate these outputs and collaborate with GCO Leadership Team and other GCO Function Heads to identify and deliver solutions.
• Liaise appropriately with GCO Functional SMEs to understand their resource algorithm needs gaps, and act as an overall GCO representative and SME to external stakeholders (e.g enterprise planning system/Trident).
• Liaise with Finance as the GCO representative to understand GCO departmental budget, needs and gaps to support GCO resourcing strategies and goals.
• Support identification and execution of effective resourcing strategies for meeting GCO resourcing needs (clinical portfolio and non-clinical portfolio).

Oversight of Non-Clinical Projects:

• Support consolidating and overseeing GCO’s overall needs on metrics and technology. Liaise with internal GCO functions including functional excellence team as needed.
• Liaise and partner closely with RD Excellence (RDEx) team as a GCO business partner on metrics/analytics technology needs for PD.
• Lead and/or support identification, creation and business adoption of appropriate consistent metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that assess GCO’s overall health.
• In collaboration with RDEx lead and provide requirements for effective dashboards and reports for stakeholder communications) Lead and/or support understanding and assessing the impact of issues and risks of the portfolio of initiatives to overall GCO goals and incorporate it into PD Forum planning and awareness.
• Lead and/or support prioritization discussions at PD Forum of all ongoing and future GCO initiatives and/or GCO support of cross functional initiatives. Provide resource assessment impact and insights into alignment with organizational goals and strategic imperatives.g)Lead and/or support identification and implementation of innovative approaches to efficient delivery clinical study and programs.
• Support GCO Financial Processes Represent GCO for Finance needs such as budgets, invoicing processes, and for process level changes based on the evolving environment (e.g., country regulatory requirements).

People and Resource Management:

• This position may require the supervision of direct and indirect reports in addition to providing training and direction for daily activities in support of goals, this job will conduct performance evaluations against goals for their direct reports. In addition, this job will coach and guide their functional and/or direct reports in support of their development needs and provide real-time feedback on job performance. Develop plan for resourcing of activities within remit/scope. Ensure appropriate resources (employee and/or contractor-based) are available to support current and future clinical programs and studies.

Qualifications: Successful candidates will be able to meet the qualifications below with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Education Qualifications (from an accredited college or university)

• Bachelor’s Degree Life Sciences field and a minimum of 8 years experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology drug development required.
• Master’s Degree Life Sciences field and a minimum of 3 years’ experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology drug development preferred Experience Qualifications.
• 7 or More Years With Bachelor’s degree required.
• 4 or More Years With Master’s Degree preferred.

Travel: Ability to travel up to 20% Some global travel may be required.

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.