Senior Manager, Patient Recruitment & Retention
AbbVie
- North Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Achieves cross functional collaboration establishing a strong understanding of the patient and global standard of care, leveraging relevant external and internal insights, and translating into actionable global recruitment and retention strategies to achieve study commitments
- Continuous oversight and analysis of recruitment campaigns to ensure tactics are delivering to plan, meeting or exceeding targets and KPIs
- Enables utilization of “Big Data” resources to inform clinical development programs, including site and patient geostrategy, patient inclusion/exclusion criteria, and patient recruitment and retention strategies and vendor recommendations
- Supports the application of risk-based thinking to clinical trial recruitment, identifying risks and establishing effective mitigation strategies to enable successful execution of the therapeutic area portfolio, and to establish effective programmatic strategies and resources to build for future success
- Enables the application of patient- and investigator-centric thinking within the clinical programs, ensuring that programs are seeking and incorporating insights from key external stakeholders in clinical development and study planning
- Maintains compliance with ICH GCP Guidelines, AbbVie Quality System and local and worldwide
- regulatory requirements; Ensures global compliance with corporate and divisional policies and
- procedures
- Keeps up to date on emerging and changing technologies, regulations, policies, and approaches
- with regards to patient recruitment. May represent AbbVie at external conferences regarding
- patient recruitment and retention
- Supports the development, maintenance, and effective training of the organization on patient recruitment and site engagement related standard operating procedures and policies
- Supports multi-year resource planning, budgeting and recruitment model/strategy to meet the needs of the therapeutic area(s) and drive cost efficiencies
- Serves as the Therapeutic area expert on industry best practices related to patient recruitment and retention
- Fosters a culture of continuous process improvement. Growth and development of direct reports
- Bachelor's Degree in a scientific field required, Advanced degree preferred
- Minimum of 6 years + of pharma-related/clinical research experience with direct experience in patient recruitment and retention, and project management experience, or equivalent
- Leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment with an ability to influence and align stakeholders, and be a model and driver of AbbVie's leadership attributes
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives and drive smart decision making. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to
- communicate persuasively and with clarity, flexibility and adaptability to changing requirements, resourcefulness and creativity
- Expertise in drug development, operations and resource/budget planning across global geographies
- Preferred but not required: Decentralized Clinical Trial Experience, ie: Remote sites, Home Healthcare, Telehealth, Patient-Facing Apps, Reimbursement & Travel Assistance, etc.