Senior Clinical Operations Manager
Novo Nordisk
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Mississauga • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
Tech Stack
Google Cloud Platform
About the role
- Provide strategic oversight and line management of clinical operations staff, ensuring high performance and professional development.
- Manage, develop, and train clinical operations staff to foster growth and enhance capabilities.
- Define and track performance metrics to drive efficiency improvements and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on resourcing, study priorities, timelines, and operational execution.
- Ensure compliance with ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and internal SOPs while promoting a culture of quality and continuous inspection readiness.
- Conduct co-monitoring and quality visits with CRAs to ensure quality oversight, training, and development.
- Drive innovation by identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and implementing agile ways of working.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- At least 11 years of experience in GCP clinical trials, including 8+ years in the pharmaceutical industry and 3+ years in a supervisory role.
- Expert knowledge of ICH-GCP and strong experience managing clinical research sites and leading cross-functional teams.
- Strong project management capabilities, including organisation, planning, and prioritisation to manage multiple clinical trials simultaneously.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities, with a proven capacity to innovate and adopt digital tools.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with stakeholders at all organisational levels.
- Willingness to travel for site co-visits and operational support.
Benefits
- Opportunities to learn and develop
- Unique company culture
- Dynamic working environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
GCP clinical trialsperformance metricsproject managementanalytical skillscritical thinkingproblem-solvingagile methodologiesclinical research site managementcross-functional team leadershipcompliance with ICH-GCP
Soft skills
strategic oversightstaff developmentcommunication skillsorganisational skillsplanningprioritisationinnovationstakeholder engagementtrainingquality oversight