Pharma Project Specialist (M/F)

Echosens is supporting many Pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations involved in the development of new molecules for treatment of chronic liver diseases, affecting more than 150 million people worldwide. We offer a full range of non-invasive liver diagnostics solutions for the recruitment and management of patients in their clinical trials, as well as for the preparation of their future drug launches.

Job Description/Responsibilities

The Pharma Project Specialist will work with Pharma sponsors and CROs in managing timelines, deliverables and resources required to execute their trials more effectively with our solutions, liaise with the appropriate Echosens staff to successfully deliver our products and services worldwide and effectively communicate project status and risks with all internal and external stakeholders. He/she will be required to demonstrate a proactive and independent approach to problem solving and decision making to support our customers.

Pharma & CRO Project Management

• Act as the key point of contact of assigned Pharma sponsors and CROs throughout theirs clinical trials
• Review trial requirements and collaborates with key stakeholders to develop study start-up activities, anticipate success factors and prepare associated documents
• Define project plans (i.e. timelines, milestones and limitations for project staff) and establish project reporting schedules
• Organize and lead project meetings throughout the trial
• Monitor and communicate project progression (deployment, training, …etc) against set timelines
• Manage interactions between Pharma sponsors, CROs and internal Echosens teams (business development, clinical, training, services…)
• Liaise with Echosens Finance team to manage the financial aspects of ongoing projects, including monthly budgeting, forecasting project scope reviews and amendments, and pass-through cost management
• Prepare and maintain relevant study documentation
• Participate in Sponsor, Investigator and bid defense meetings

Echosens Trial Solutions Deployment and Execution

• Lead sponsor trial startup process, including but not limited to conduct of the Trial Kick-off meeting, Technical Requirements Forms (TRFs) to support site selection…
• Coordinate and monitor the deployment and servicing of our FibroScan products and associated services in a given trial, with the support from Echosens global teams (logistics, service…) and partners worldwide
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• Ensure tracking, assignment to relevant Echosens teams and follow up of trial sites issues
• Define and implement the processes required to deliver above activities
• Develop and constantly update the required tools to follow-up above activities, including but not limited to Trial Tracker tools and Salesforce.com CRM

You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the management of clinical studies within pharmaceutical groups or CROs

To take up this exciting challenge, you have exceptional organisational skills, the ability to lead several projects in parallel and to manage the creation and delivery of project reports in a timely manner. You like working in team in an international environment. You have excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and the ability to use these skills to execute clinical project management duties jointly with external customers and internal partners. These personality traits wills offer you real career progression prospects internationally.

You are fluent in English.