Associate Clinical Country and Site Lead (West Coast/Midwest)
$116,000–$155,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Maintain current awareness of local clinical knowledge, emerging standards of care, and trial needs for clinicians in the community. Hold operational and scientific discussions to act as the local Quantitative Sciences & Development Operations expert, providing country-level therapeutic, disease, and program information to drive global strategy. Coordinate cross-functional affiliate input into the Clinical Development Plan and develop or execute an investigator engagement strategy to position Biogen as the preferred partner. Lead local activities during site selection, ensuring appropriate input from treating physicians and stakeholders. Serve as the primary country contact for all QSDO clinical studies, managing interactions with investigators, affiliate staff, CROs, and global teams to ensure timely information flow and issue resolution. Monitor overall country performance against KPIs and support country-focused activities to deliver operational milestones. This field-based role requires up to 80% travel and is located in the West Coast or Midwest Region.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 5+ years clinical research experience
- Understanding of cross-functional drug development process
- High scientific/clinical knowledge across key therapeutic areas
- Understanding of ICH/GCP
- Applicable country regulations
- Clinical trial monitoring in an outsourced model
- Strong organizational skills
- Project management skills
- Ability to set clear goals
- Ability to align priorities
- Ability to execute on multiple tasks/activities
- Effective working knowledge of relevant IT tools
- Excellent knowledge of clinical operational activities/challenges across local geography
- Proven ability to handle a high volume of tasks of varying complexity within a given timeframe
- Ability to consider relative priorities
- Strong communication skills
- English language skill in countries where English is not the primary language
- Ability to assimilate new knowledge rapidly
- Willingness to travel up to 80% (1x/week)
- Experience working in a fully outsourced and Functional Service Provider (FSP) models
Desired Qualifications
- Managing clinical trial activities desirable, especially sponsor oversight activities in an outsourced/FSP model
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