Job Description

Position Title (and Short Title)
Clinical Research Director (CRD)

Organization Details

General Clinical Trial Operations / Regions

Brief Description of Position

The Clinical Research Director (CRD) is the Clinical Operations lead in a country/cluster and is responsible for execution of all Clinical Trials in scope for GCTO country operations.
Adherence to GCP, local and global policies and procedures to conduct high-quality, inspection-ready studies is essential. The position is accountable for trial quality and audit responses and completion of CAPAs. The incumbent ensures a single point of contact for managing clinical trial execution in all its aspects across phases in scope of GCTO within the country/cluster.
The position has multiple touch points across the company which will be dependent on country/cluster and the study type and stage.
CRD is the primary country/cluster-level contact for GCTO and has the following key responsibilities:
- Supports the regional GCTO leadership team,



leading strategic development of their country/cluster to deliver clinical trials as per global clinical research pipeline requirement.
- Strategic country/cluster representative for initiatives at all levels of the organization.
- Builds and leads the team to effectively manage resources, ensuring an appropriately skilled and high-performing team to deliver the portfolio across therapy areas and achieve agreed GCTO, GCD, objectives.
- Leads strategic development and management of institutional and investigator relationships in conjunction with / GCD Therapy Areas, and, when appropriate, Human Health.
- Working with regional and global colleagues, develops and executes the GCTO strategy for the country/cluster, such as industry associations.

Leadership and Management of the GCTO Country / Cluster Organization
- Recruits and hires talent.
- Proactively manages and develops talent.
- Proactively identifies new opportunities and gaps to support emerging needs and ad

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