**Job Description**:Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company - one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.This role will be key to ensure business continuity in the area of monitoring in clinical research. Under the oversight of the Head of Monitoring Resources or the CRD, the person is responsible to manage a team of 6-12 CRAs and to ensure excellent study performance with strict adherence to local regulations, SOPs and ICH GCP. As line manager the role is critical to continuously develop key talents by providing training, support and mentoring to the CRAs.The role will work at country level with other local stakeholder e.g. CRM to ensure alignment and development of the country capabilities. The person contributes to HQ capacity/resource planning activities to ensure efficient allocation of resources and work.Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:- Work allocation, staff development and performance appraisal.- Provides input for capacity planning, including reporting of current manpower and forecasting of CRA capacity and needs, to provide efficient use of resources.- Work with CRA and other functions to ensure consistency of processes and protocol implementation across the country, to reduce variability and provide predictability.- Interacts with sites as needed to resolve site operational issues to meet commitments in a timely manner.- Attend local Investigator Meetings as necessary.- Interface with GCTO partners on clinical trial execution.- Escalates site performance issues to Clinical Research Director CRD.- People and Resource Management:- Manage CRA - career development, performance reviews, etc., including addressing low performance situations, and taking appropriate actions.- Support and resolve escalation of issues from CRAs.- Liaise with local HR and finance functions as required.- Contribute to HQ capacity/resource planning activities to ensure efficient allocation of resources and work. Manage local conflicts between resource and work.- Provides training, support and mentoring to the CRA to ensure continuous development.- Ensures CRA compliance to corporate policies, procedures and quality standardOur employees are the key to our company's success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Our Company's benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives.**Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully****Employee Status**:Regular**Relocation**:No relocation**VISA Sponsorship**:**Travel Requirements**:**Flexible Work Arrangements**:**Shift**:**Valid Driving License**:**Hazardous Material(s)**:**Requisition ID**:R251190
