Gaithersburg, MD
Contract Duration: 12-36 months
Rate: Negotiable
Responsibilities:
- Excellent employment opportunity for a Product Director, Innovative Recruitment in the Gaithersburg, MD area.
- The focus of this role is to work with global product teams and leaders to understand patient recruitment needs at a disease and study level, developing appropriate solutions.
- The holder of this role will directly work with vendors to implement Innovative Recruitment solutions, services, and optimizations across multiple markets for specific programme and study needs.
- They will also work closely with Company (and potentially other sponsors') clinical development, operational and IT functions to ensure broader business needs and constraints are considered and met.
- The role holder will also work as a member of the Innovative Recruitment team to deliver engagement strategy and oversight for our enterprise service to support all company clinical trials recruit, initially in the US.
- Work closely with Global Product Teams and study leaders to develop Digital Recruitment Strategies to support both condition-based and individual study recruitment.
- This will include channels such as digital marketing, data platforms and patient facing apps.
- The strategy will incorporate the broad needs of the therapy/disease area, more specific needs of individual Global Product Teams and detailed needs of individual studies.
- Find opportunities to test new engagement channels, optimize existing processes and pilot new ways of working with our biopharmaceutical study teams to accelerate clinical trial recruitment
- Implement digital recruitment strategies at a condition and study level plan for the TA Digital Recruitment Strategy, working closely with Digital Health Implementation leads to configure specific platform needs.
- Develop leading and lagging performance measures to assess and communicate clearly and accurately progress against plan.
- Utilize performance measures to optimize engagement campaigns throughout period of recruitment
- Deliver, oversee implementation and drive continuous optimization of the engagement strategy for the enterprise clinical trial recruitment service supporting all Company clinical trials
- Be an active member of the Innovative Recruitment team developing an industry leading approach for clinical trial delivery
- Ensure effective and transparent risk, opportunity and issues management at strategic, tactical and operational levels
- Deliver governance approved business cases within tolerance, on time, cost, and quality working with functional management as required to resolve issues.
- Grow and maintain internal and external relationships, connecting the needs of key customers including TA, patients, health care providers and technology partners
Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in a Scientific, Marketing or Technology based subject area
- A minimum of 7 years of experience
- Relevant experience in the Pharmaceutical industry
- A proven understanding of the drug development processes, and the impact technology can have on these processes
- Experience in Digital Health with an understanding of healthcare
- Ability to lead and influence strategically and persuade thoughtfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships
- Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership and hold self and others accountable
- Experience leading implementation and strategy development teams and working in a global environment
- Passion for Patients and Customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision making and planning
- Experience implementing or overseeing digital marketing campaigns would be helpful to the role but not essential