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Director, Site Start Up

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-29

Core

Provides leadership to the Site Start-up (SSU) department, driving strategy, expansion, and delivery of clinical trial initiation activities including regulatory submissions and contract negotiations.

Role type

Senior management clinical research director (site start-up)

Builds

Clinical trial site initiation services for pharmaceutical and biotech clients

Domain

Clinical Research / Life Sciences

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Strategic planning, regulatory compliance (GCP/ICH), team leadership, risk management, change management, budget negotiation, process optimization

Preferred skills

Resource management, stakeholder management, business development collaboration, KPI development

Technologies

CTMS, eTMF, EDC, Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

Lead SSU team and project delivery, manage regulatory submissions (IRB/EC/CA), oversee site contract negotiations, optimize SSU processes for profitability, support business development proposals, develop and report SSU KPIs

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership & team management

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