0000090708-Clinical Planning Manager (6M) at Jersey

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Job Description:The Clinical Planning Manager is responsible for supporting the Clinical Trial/Project Teams by developing/maintaining study timelines, providing evaluations of potential risks and conflicts, supporting the team on proactively resolving potential deviations and providing clear timeline reports. This position will be in a team orientated environment that is empowered to drive the studies with minimal deviations, accelerating timelines and providing metrics to implement future enhancements.The Clinical Planning Manager will work in close cooperation with all Clinical Teams, Corporate Project Management, Purchasing and CROs.Reports directly to the Senior Director-Global Clinical Trial & Critical Path Management.1. Develop, evaluate and maintain high quality, realistic, cross functional clinical trial plans from study concept through completed clinical study reports. The Clinical Planning Manager will develop the study timeline with the teams when the synopsis/draft protocol is available.2. Responsible to work closely with the Clinical Development lead, Global Operations department and the study team to ensure timely delivery of all clinical milestones and assist in resolution of potential and actual issues.3. Responsible for arranging and leading discussions on the clinical study plans.4. Provide clear and well presented clinical study plan reports to many stakeholders within Forest Research Institute.5. Provide critical path and bottleneck assessments, identify risks and work with the study team to proactively develop strategies and minimize delays. Define baselines and provide metrics to identify areas and trends that can be used by the clinical teams for future enhancements.6. Work collaboratively with Global Recruitment Operations, Global Site Start Up Operations and CRO Oversight to reduce timelines for study start up activities.7. Operate within the Forest STAR initiative (communication and accountability model).8. Assist in developing department portfolio based schedules and resource planning methodologies.9. Identify state of the art planning tools to minimize deviations from established timelines.Minimum Requirements:Life science and/or business degree with at least 2-5 years experience in clinical research. Strong knowledge and experience of the clinical study process. Project Management experience preferred Excellent written, communication and organizational skills Strong MS Project experience required. Ability to multi-task and perform under demanding and aggressive timelines while remaining focused on the study goals. Proven ability to interact with different functional groups.

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Country: USA, State: New Jersey, City: Jersey, Company: InVentiv Health.