Position Title: Patient Recruitment and Retention Lead
Work Location: Remote role, anywhere in US, supports EST
Assignment Duration: 12 Months
Work Schedule: 8 AM to 5 PM EST
 
Position Summary:

• Oversee and provide quality patient engagement and recruitment services that allow study teams to meet patient enrollment goals.
• Work to deploy new processes, methodologies, data, and technologies for future implementation.

 
Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee execution/execute patient recruitment deliverables regarding operational planning activities supporting clinical project teams building phase 2 through phase 4 clinical research studies including: Early operational planning, Protocol synopsis feasibility assessments, Enrollment forecasting and modeling, building Recruitment support strategies (e.g., central recruitment), Recruitment and retention plans
• Ensure delivery of high-quality subject recruitment and retention plans in collaboration with the clinical project teams/study team and contracted supplier(s) before First Patient First Visit.
• Manage quantitative decision support framework for strategy development, vendor selection, and objective setting.
• Manage contract and vendor relationship framework.
• Systematically evaluate and communicate financial impact of specialist vendor (recruitment and retention) and recruitment strategies to important partners.
• Build daily delivery of activities as described above supporting clinical programs (e.g., including delivery of decision support data and methodologies for protocol development, site selection and management of recruitment support vendors.
• Support Director with activities related to process improvement and mapping, training, interdepartmental collaboration (e.g., compliance, DSI technologies)

 
Qualification & Experience:

• Comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., clinical development, the prescription drug distribution process, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to work across functions, regions and cultures
• Enterprise level leadership with the ability to inspire, motivate and drive results
• Excellent communicator, able to persuasively convey both ideas and data, verbally and in writing
• Proven skills as an effective team player who can engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company
• Ability to distil complex issues and ideas down to simple comprehensible terms
• Executive leadership presence and confidence
• Embraces and demonstrates a diversity and inclusion mindset and role models these behaviors for the organization

Broad decision-making responsibilities:

• Ability to make highly complex decisions that impact the enterprise
• Accountable for decision making for designated function
• Ability to seek diverse input from multiple constituents and stakeholders to drive innovative solutions
• Ability to incorporate feedback and ensure decisions are made swiftly to yield flawless execution
• Accountable for designing and implementing vision and strategy for designated scope
• Effectively navigates the changing external and internal environment and leads others through change by creating and inspiring and engaging workplace
• Effectively represent the organization in High-level negotiations with the ability to resolve conflict in a constructive manner
• Visionary and forward thinking with the ability to influence and effectively drive organizational change and continuous innovation
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and bringing forward innovative solutions
• Ability to take risks implementing innovative solutions, accelerating time to market
• Ability to work in a global ecosystem (internal and external) with a high degree of complexity
• Breadth of knowledge required across therapeutic areas, indications, and/or modalities
• Bachelor's Degree.
• 5 or more years of experience in patient recruitment with evidence of increasing responsibility within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or similar organization.
• Expertise in developing recruitment and retention strategies, country/site identification, and generation of material and trial metrics.
• Successful leadership, and development of large, diverse globally dispersed teams experience.
• Knowledge of leading-edge trial optimization vendors, tools, and methods.
• Knowledge of current regulatory requirements and guidelines governing clinical research.
• Experience in process design and improvement.
• Understanding of clinical trials, relevant knowledge of GCP/ICH and applicable global regulations regarding trial optimization strategies.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 78.00/hr.