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