Global Trial Acceleration Associate

Key Responsibilities

• The Global Trial Acceleration Associate is responsible for managing and executing on centralized activities in support of global trials with an emphasis on clinical documentation.
• The Global Trial Acceleration Associate will interact with clinical study sites, CROs/vendors, Country Trial Managers (CTM)/Clinical Trial Monitor (CTMo.), the study team and other functional areas within BMS and will provide support to the Study Team throughout the study duration (start-up, maintenance, and close-out of clinical studies).
• As the main point of contact for essential document management, ethical and regulatory submission-related activities, develops and maintains collaborative working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
• Support outsourcing activities by interfacing with operational teams, support groups and service providers for successful selection, contracting and execution of outsourced studies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, ethical practices, BMS outsourcing and procurement policies and procedures.
• Initiate and manage start-up documentation activities for global clinical trials.
• Submission of potential investigators to CTSS for debarment review and tracking of decisions.
• Responsible for country/Site Activation for clinical trials as applicable per region; this includes the final review of applicable documents, final sign-off of the country/site activation checklist. The incumbent may also be responsible for activating the site in accordance with all applicable global / local study procedures.
• May provide a level of quality control of start-up activity.
• Update and review of various study-related clinical systems to determine and report status of clinical trial documents for insourced studies (i.e., CTMS, eTMF, etc. or corresponding vendor systems).
• May arrange certified translation of study level documentation from translators as requested (i.e., ICF, Protocol, IB).
• May assist with the coordination or creation of other study specific materials such as pharmacy or Investigator site file to ensure that these are available on site for site initiation visits/prior to first patient visit.
• May act as single point of contact for the study team for centralized activities during study start-up.
• Ongoing maintenance and tracking of essential documentation and collection of updated/outstanding documentation and submission as required during all phases of clinical trial.
• Ongoing communication with study teams regarding centralized study activities.
• Maybe responsible for creation and management of standardized document templates.
• Assist with CSR distribution
• Country and site level ICF adaptation.
• Essential document collection, review and approval of country and site level documents.
• Centrally reviewing all the Site Monitoring Visit reports, issue escalation, resolution and follow up tasks.
• Other duties as assigned to support Clinical Trials.

Qualifications Experience

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in legal, Life science, Business Administration, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree a plus.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant clinical development operational experience in Pharmaceutical, biotech, CRO or similar fields, is required.
• Seasoned field monitor with min 3+ years of global site monitoring (Clinical Research Associate) report review experience is preferred.
• Prior therapeutic area expertise (eg: Oncology, Cardiology, Hematology, Immunology etc) is preferred.
• Hands-on experience preparing, reviewing, and submitting regulatory documentation to IRB/IECs and Regulatory Agencies; including formulating responses to queries.
• Hands-on experience of preparing, reviewing, and submitting clinical study start-up / activation documentation, including responses to queries.
• Knowledge of ICH / GCP and regulatory guidelines/directives, understanding of drug development process and Pharma, Strong organizational, time-management, analytical and decision-making skills to efficiently evaluate, plan and accomplish work goals.
• Effective communication skills in English (written oral), computer skills - MS office suite, SharePoint, etc. CTMS (Veeva Vault experience preferred, knowledge of portals, databases and other Clinical Trial enabling technologies
• Proven experience in managing key internal and external stakeholders effectively by frequently soliciting input and gathering and incorporating feedback into processes as appropriate.
• Effective management or support of cross-functional, multi-cultural teams and demonstrated ability to work and influence within a matrix structure.
• Proven time management skills and ability to be flexible to meet job demands, manage multiple priorities, and take on new initiatives and improvement efforts.
• Demonstrates a high level of adaptability in dealing with ambiguous and complex work environment and balances multiple demands on role in a responsive and professional manner.
• Ability to sustain high levels of performance in a constantly changing environment.