PPD is proud to employ over 20,000 employees worldwide, across 47 countries and 89 offices. In just over 30 years, PPD has grown to become a leading U.S. based CRO and recently has won accolades for industry leading CRA team, employee training & development, excellence in service and numerous awards for Best CRO. Our sustained year on year growth means that we are always looking for exceptional clinical talent to join our company.
Since opening in 2007, PPD’s offices in China now include 20 different departments. The combined Beijing and Shanghai offices are now seven times the size they were two years ago and are continuing to grow. PPD China is able to offer our staff opportunities to collaborate on projects not only in Asia Pacific, but in regions around the world. You’ll have the opportunity to work on multinational trials—with top-tier sponsors, and on an industry-leading platform.
This is a great time to join PPD China. Currently PPD is recruiting for Director, Study Start-up Project Manager to join our Site Intelligence & Activation (SIA) department. Our goal-driven teams combine and deliver study start-up activities for clinical trials in China, collaborating to improve processes, cycle and flexibility. We partner with our sites, businesses and colleagues around the world to decrease start-up timelines and exceed expectations.

Essential Functions

and Other Job Information:
Responsible for the effective operations and
delivery of site activation deliverables across all regions, within the
assigned projects.
Providing strategic direction and creating a
high performance culture through leadership, management, coaching and development
to achieve delivery of site activation service targets/measures (e.g.
cost, quality, time) and the effective development & implementation of
systems, processes and policies for the group.
Fosters a culture that drives customer focused
solutions, personal accountability, and delivery excellence.
Builds and cultivates productive relationships
and internal/external networks of contacts across the global SIA function
to facilitate service delivery, client satisfaction and operational
effectiveness.
Develops and maintains strategic relationships
with customers. Collaborates with business leads for business development,
alliance management, contracts and proposals development, project
management, clinical management, operational personnel, and executive
management to achieve project goals.
Ensures that individual project targets are
met, clients are satisfied, services are provided with the highest quality
standards and policies and procedures are followed.
Contributes to and may lead change initiatives
across the Clinical Development Services (CDS) and within the SIA
department.

Minimum Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in a scientific or similar discipline and 12+ years related experience including 7years of management responsibility or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Demonstrates significant depth of knowledge/ experience of clinical drug development and trial process, attained within the pharmaceutical industry and/or CRO, globally and across multiple therapeutic areas.
Significant prior experience in managing/leading teams including direct line management responsibilities, across regions.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Strategic thinking, planning and organization skills.
Ability to analyze data, anticipate and mitigate risk, exercise sound judgment, problem solving and decision-making working under pressure and at times with limited desired information.
Ability to use personal influence and persuasion to effectively promote ideas and proposals to shape stakeholder opinions.
Demonstrates the ability to develop and cultivate strong internal/external networks of contacts and resources to help ensure operational execution.
Acts as an ambassador for change, influences and motivates, demonstrates solid interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
Effective negotiation and problem solving skills.
Demonstrates credible leadership style, with concise, well organized oral and written communication skills and proven ability to mobilize and foster team productivity.
Ability to motivate managers and supervisors to define and reach team objectives.
Expertise in budgeting and resource management.Has a solid understanding of FDA, GCP, and ICH guidelines with a track record of successful operational delivery.

Our offer : As a compensation, you
will be provided with a competitive remuneration, corporate trainings and the
opportunity to become a part of a fast growing, multinational company. At
PPD, we encourage our employees to demonstrate creativity, innovation and fresh
insights as well as a solution-focused approach. We also value teamwork,
camaraderie and enthusiasm. This is a full-time, permanent position .

Locations we are hiring in are:
Office based Beijing
Office based Shanghai
Home based China

Additional Information

Requisition ID: 157333
Additional Information

Requisition ID: 157333