Cogstate

Account Manager

• Partner closely with the Business Development Director, Strategic Accounts to secure and expand profitable New Business Awards (NBAs).
• Identify, qualify, and advance new business opportunities.
• Support the development and execution of strategic account plans.
• Lead end-to-end development of strategic proposals and RFIs.
• Manage high-value complex B2B deals requiring strong commercial judgement.
• Conduct ongoing research into named strategic accounts to identify new opportunities.
• Build and maintain strong, senior-level customer relationships.
• Maintain accurate records of strategic account activity within SalesForce.com database.

Account Manager – Strategic Accounts

Project Manager

• Lead Global clinical trials across all phases.
• May actively mentor other project management team members and clinical staff. Facilitate team building and communication.
• With support from supervisor, request resources across platform lines and ensure team member follow pre-determined hours allocated in budget.
• Financial Responsibilities
• Manage project to target gross profit consistently.
• Accurate and timely financial forecasting and invoicing
• Assess need for change in scope and lead Change Order Process
• Maintain a strong understanding of the broader impact of invoicing on company financials
• Experience managing projects in Start-Up or Conduct or Close-Out phases (can be over multiple projects).
• Develop in depth understanding of Cogstate service delivery within operational, financial and regulatory constraints. Able to find gaps and work with the team to fill them.
• Proactively manage risks with confidence, demonstrating strong leadership in guiding team members through challenges and making decisive, well-informed decisions.
• Attending Investigator Meetings (as needed) and ensuring Cogstate is well represented.
• Foster team collaboration and effective communication in a virtual environment, seamlessly connecting teams across multiple geographic locations.
• With supervision, analyze reports for project hours and budget utilization and making course corrections in conjunction with Operations Line Managers. Ability to review Work Orders and determine deliverables and timelines for project.
• Maintain project narrative for external and internal stakeholders. Ensure accurate reporting on service delivery and progress.
• Lead internal project team utilizing available tools and Agile methodologies
• Ability to motivate, influence and drive project toward outcomes and deliverables ensuring team is on task and meet the highest standards of service

Project Manager, Clinical Trials

• Lead Global clinical trials across all phases.
• May actively mentor other project management team members and clinical staff. Facilitate team building and communication.
• With support from supervisor, request resources across platform lines and ensure team member follow pre-determined hours allocated in budget.
• Financial Responsibilities
• Manage project to target gross profit consistently.
• Accurate and timely financial forecasting and invoicing.
• Assess need for change in scope and lead Change Order Process.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the broader impact of invoicing on company financials.
• Experience managing projects in Start-Up or Conduct or Close-Out phases (can be over multiple projects).
• Develop in depth understanding of Cogstate service delivery within operational, financial and regulatory constraints. Able to find gaps and work with the team to fill them.
• Proactively manage risks with confidence, demonstrating strong leadership in guiding team members through challenges and making decisive, well-informed decisions.
• Attending Investigator Meetings (as needed) and ensuring Cogstate is well represented.
• Foster team collaboration and effective communication in a virtual environment, seamlessly connecting teams across multiple geographic locations.
• With supervision, analyze reports for project hours and budget utilization and making course corrections in conjunction with Operations Line Managers.Ability to review Work Orders and determine deliverables and timelines for project.
• Maintain project narrative for external and internal stakeholders. Ensure accurate reporting on service delivery and progress.
• Lead internal project team utilizing available tools and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to motivate, influence and drive project toward outcomes and deliverables ensuring team is on task and meet the highest standards of service.

Project Manager – Clinical Trials

Research Scientist

• Oversee the delivery of specific scientific project services.
• Contribute to the definition of study specific delivery plans and processes.
• Provide directions to internal study team staff with respect to feasibility, process, timing of delivery of services.
• Be accountable for study scientific decisions, and for ensuring clarity of internal and external project communications.
• Ensure accurate tracking of time spent on studies.
• Work collaboratively with the Head of Project Management to develop tracking and control mechanisms to ensure profitable delivery of rater training services.
• Contribute to staff development and management of the Rater Training Group: training, definition of goals, and performance assessments.
• Contribute to the definition of central, standard and efficient delivery processes.
• Development of pragmatic quality control procedures that ensure the quality of delivery of services.
• Contribute to the development of SOPs and Guidelines. Answering internal staff and sponsor questions.
• Evaluate proposed raters against rater experience criteria.
• Conduct live rater training sessions.
• Conduct rater remediation training sessions.
• Collect psychometric and interview data for non-interventional studies.
• Interact with sponsors to resolve scientific queries and participate in study planning.
• Conduct standardized clinical outcome assessments remotely or in a centralized setting for pediatric and rare disease clinical trials.
• Ensure adherence to study protocols, assessment guidelines, and regulatory requirements while administering measures.
• Maintain inter-rater reliability and scoring accuracy through rigorous training and periodic calibration.
• Review and evaluate completed assessments from site-based raters for accuracy, consistency, and adherence to study protocols.
• Identify and address scoring discrepancies, potential data quality issues, and protocol deviations.
• Create business requirements documents and provide overview of DBCM and RPCM dashboards with sponsors.
• Support the development of new products and services.
• Support cognition research.
• Support collection and analysis of data related to rater performance for improving services.
• Design and interpret metrics for tracking product or service delivery performance.
• Supporting sales.
• Drive publications and presentations at conferences of results of scientific and operational data from clinical trials and other studies.

Principal Scientist

Clinical Research

• Serve as a primary science lead on clinical trials supported by Cogstate, with a focus on cognitive testing and associated services.
• Liaise with sponsor contacts to address scientific questions, with a focus on empirical and objective data.
• Review clinical trial protocols and advise on (and develop specifications for) the configuration of Cogstate software to match study designs and scientific objectives.
• Understand and advise on cognitive outcome measures and cognitive tests.
• Participate in study methodology and new clinical trial software design.
• Interact with project management, statistics, data management, programming, and site services teams internally to support scientific processes and studies.
• Develop solutions to unique customer requests relating to topics such as stratification, inclusion, reliable change monitoring, data monitoring, normative data, and other cognitive testing applications.
• Review and monitor cognitive data for completion and performance.
• Analyze and interpret cognitive data from clinical trials and research studies.
• Write clinical study reports, statistical reports, central monitoring reports, white papers, and other analytic reports.
• Critically evaluate internal processes and scientific methodologies.
• Contribute to the development of processes, technology, and infrastructure which support the functions of scientific services and related operations.
• Oversee and provide higher-level support for device qualification and configuration activities to ensure adequate timing properties for Cogstate computerized tests.
• Oversight and implementation of data monitoring and rater training services.
• Develop rater training materials.

Senior Clinical Scientist

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Create Pricing for customer proposals based on RFP’s received, internal inputs, and within company approved standards.
• Assist Project Managers in the creation or review of customer change in scope pricing (Change Orders)
• Coordinate with Business Development and provide regular updates on the financial details and contracting of all new proposals and change orders in development
• Coordination and development of all pricing & Forecast Trackers on newly signed projects, with ongoing support and analysis across all projects.
• Contract setup: set up of Project “Forecast Tracker” file and project codes in the Oracle Netsuite system
• Ongoing: Responsible for providing financial advice and assistance with monthly billing/forecasting to the Project Management team who manage the project portfolio
• Contract close down: financial reconciliation of the project billing at the end of a project
• Analyze financial data and provide forecasting support.
• Participate in constant review of customer profitability analysis to ensure key divisional KPIs are achieved
• Ongoing development and creation of reporting related to profitability, staff utilization and staff resourcing
• Provision of ad-hoc reporting as required for Marketing, Business Development, Clinical Trials Operations and/or Product Development. Incorporating and utilizing data and information sourced from within Cogstate
• Monitor and analyze monthly divisional employee time reporting; identify and escalate areas of concern
• Coordinate with Business Development and provide regular updates on the financial details and contracting of all new proposals and change orders in development.
• Assist Financial Accounting team in the consolidation of all forecasting on clinical trials studies, as well as estimates of future income and timing on all high probability and unsigned contracts in development

Financial Analyst

Data Engineer

• Understand Cogstate data sources and develop data pipelines using Databricks to bring all data into the data lake.
• Design, develop, implement, and tune large-scale distributed systems and pipelines that process large volumes of data; focusing on scalability, low-latency, and fault-tolerance in every system.
• Developing scalable and re-usable frameworks for ingesting data into Azure Databricks, incorporating standards and best practices into engineering solutions.
• Databricks engineering - query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging pipelines.
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT design methodologies, architecture, strategy, and tactics for complex ETL solutions, including CI/CD skills.
• Develop high performance scripts in PySpark to achieve objectives of enterprise data, BI, data visualization and analytics needs.
• Data processing/transformation using various technologies such as Apache Spark, SQL, Python/Scala and Azure cloud services.
• Manage code versions in source control and coordinate changes across teams by leveraging Github.
• Participate in architecture design and discussions, provide logical and physical data design, and database modelling.
• Be part of the Agile team to ensure availability of data to internal and external users.
• Organize and manage data shares.
• Solve complex data issues around data integration, data quality, and other data processing incidents.
• Work with business system owners to resolve source data issues and refine transformation rules.

• Manage client relationships as main POC for individual and some portfolios of studies.
• Independently lead Cogstate’s APAC Clinical Trials.
• Collaboratively manage global clinical trials with APAC presence.
• Attending Investigator Meetings (as needed) and ensuring Cogstate is well represented.
• Work in an Agile environment with Portfolio Teams, and work across established Portfolio Teams to represent APAC.
• Establish an APAC focused Portfolio Team.
• Oversight of resourcing and financials across a Portfolio of Projects
• Invoice for assigned projects based on expected timelines and understanding of project progression.
• Facilitate team building and communication in a virtual environment.
• Develop in depth understanding of Cogstate service delivery within operational, financial and regulatory constraints.
• Work closely with Business Development and project team managing relationship for key accounts.
• Lead and participate in Bid Defense and Face to Face customer meetings to ensure Cogstate Clinical Trials Operations is well represented.
• Manage internal initiative projects.
• Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders in the development of rater training curriculums and materials for assigned clinical trials.