Associate Clinical Country Lead
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About the Role
Biogen is seeking an Associate Clinical Country & Site Lead in Riyadh to provide local operational and scientific knowledge for clinical trials. The role involves building relationships with investigators, overseeing CRO activities, and ensuring quality and patient safety.
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Responsibilities
- Maintain up to date local knowledge of Biogen’s therapeutic areas, standards of care, clinical trial requirements, and the needs of local investigators and research sites
- Build and maintain strong relationships with investigators and sites, helping position Biogen as a partner of choice for clinical research
- Support country and site selection activities by gathering local insights and feedback from investigators and other key stakeholders
- Act as the primary country level QSDO/Biogen contact for sponsor oversight activities, including Sponsor Oversight Visits (SOVs), audits, inspections, and CRO oversight
- Perform co monitoring activities during Sponsor Oversight Visits, ensuring trial records, informed consent documentation, and source documents are maintained in accordance with protocol, ICH GCP, SOPs, and local regulations
- Lead interactions with investigators, affiliate teams, CRO staff, and global stakeholders to facilitate information flow and timely issue resolution across clinical studies
- Monitor and assess overall trial and country performance to support QSDO objectives and country level goals
- Contribute to local projects and broader Clinical Study Operations activities as a representative of the country
Requirements
- University degree or equivalent combination of education with a science background and experience
- Minimum 5 years clinical research experience
- Experience managing clinical trial activities, especially sponsor oversight activities in an outsourced/FSP model with CROs/vendors
- Understanding of cross functional drug development process and high scientific/clinical knowledge across key therapeutic areas
- Understanding of ICH/GCP, applicable country regulations and clinical trial monitoring in an outsourced model
- Strong organizational skills, especially project management skills
- Effective working knowledge of relevant IT tools to promote virtual team working
- Excellent knowledge of clinical operational activities/challenges across local geography
- Customer focused, with excellent interpersonal skills, cultural awareness, high emotional intelligence and a collaborative decision making approach
- Proven ability to handle a high volume of tasks of varying complexity within a given timeframe
- Strong communication skills, including English language skill in countries where English is not the primary language
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About This Role
- As an Associate Clinical Country & Site Lead, you will be in an external facing, country aligned clinical operations position focused on providing key local operational and scientific knowledge to support country level clinical development strategy.
- You will help enable local partnerships, enhance customer satisfaction, and support the focused delivery and execution of Biogen’s development pipeline.
- You will work closely with the Director, Clinical Country & Site Lead, as well as the Clinical Country & Site Lead or Senior Clinical Country & Site Lead in country, to provide study teams with detailed local operational and scientific knowledge that supports clinical operations execution.
- You will serve as a single point of contact for investigators, affiliate office staff, CRO staff, and QSDO/global teams, helping enable the delivery of local clinical trials with a strong focus on quality, patient safety, and oversight of CRO activities and performance.
- You will also act as a site escalation point for investigator concerns, including issues related to data integrity, data quality, patient safety, or matters unresolved by the CRO.
What You'll Do
- Maintain up to date local knowledge of Biogen’s therapeutic areas, standards of care, clinical trial requirements, and the needs of local investigators and research sites.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with investigators and sites, helping position Biogen as a partner of choice for clinical research.
- Support country and site selection activities by gathering local insights and feedback from investigators and other key stakeholders.
- Act as the primary country level QSDO/Biogen contact for sponsor oversight activities, including Sponsor Oversight Visits (SOVs), audits, inspections, and CRO oversight.
- Perform co monitoring activities during Sponsor Oversight Visits, ensuring trial records, informed consent documentation, and source documents are maintained in accordance with protocol, ICH GCP, SOPs, and local regulations.
- Lead interactions with investigators, affiliate teams, CRO staff, and global stakeholders to facilitate information flow and timely issue resolution across clinical studies.
- Monitor and assess overall trial and country performance to support QSDO objectives and country level goals.
- Contribute to local projects and broader Clinical Study Operations activities as a representative of the country.
Required Skills
- University degree or the equivalent combination of education with a science background and experience required.
- Minimum 5 years clinical research experience. Experience managing clinical trial activities desirable, especially sponsor oversight activities in an outsourced/FSP model with CROs/vendors.
- Understanding of cross functional drug development process and high scientific/clinical knowledge across key therapeutic areas enabling aCCSL to discuss compound(s), development plans, and protocol endpoints with investigator site personnel.
- Understanding of ICH/GCP, applicable country regulations and clinical trial monitoring in an outsourced model.
- Strong organizational skills, especially project management skills, with an ability to set clear goals, align priorities and execute on multiple tasks/activities.
- Effective working knowledge of relevant IT tools to promote virtual team working.
- Excellent knowledge of clinical operational activities/challenges across local geography.
- Ideal candidate will be customer focused, with excellent interpersonal skills, cultural awareness, high emotional intelligence and a collaborative decision making approach.
- Proven ability to handle a high volume of tasks of varying complexity within a given timeframe and in consideration of relative priorities.
- Strong communication skills, including English language skill in countries where English is not the primary language. Ability to assimilate new knowledge rapidly.
Job Level
- Job Level: Management
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