Associate Director, Central Monitor - Hybrid

About the role

The Central Monitoring Associate Director is responsible for leading a team of Central Monitoring Managers to de-risk clinical studies and advance AbbVie's clinical research and development programs.

Responsibilities

• Maximize the value and efficiently utilize AbbVie’s staff in the front-line Central Monitoring space.
• Lead, manage, and supervise a combined team of Central Monitoring Managers with delivery responsibilities for a portfolio of studies.
• Create an internal leadership talent pipeline and mentor/coach team members on their leadership journey.
• Foster a growth mindset within the team based on inclusive collaboration, innovation, learning, and continuous improvement that delivers successful outcomes for the study, the team, the individual and the business.
• Develop the central monitoring staffing strategy and tactics in support of assigned clinical research programs, ensuring execution is with quality and efficiency, on-time, and in line with company objectives.
• Recruit, hire, and train the front-line Central Monitoring Leadership team, including therapeutic area training, compliance training, and study management-specific knowledge as required to perform assigned tasks.
• Manage the performance cycle including expectation setting, objective setting (both tactical and stretch opportunities to ensure continuous growth), the provision of constructive and timely feedback (informal & formal, direct feedback as well as feedback from CDO business partners), reviews, and management of any performance issues to resolution.
• Interact with and influence all levels of management and cross-functional team members in Clinical Development Operations to achieve high standards of output from front-line Central Monitoring Leadership staff.

Requirements

This is a hybrid based role working on-site T-TH. Candidates must be local to Lake County, IL; Irvine, CA or Florham Park, NJ and work on-site 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field, may include life sciences, risk-based discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of clinically related experience or data trend analysis experience, at least 5 years people management experience (remote experience preferred).
• Experience working in an RBQM-model or similar experience with risk-based monitoring required.
• Experience/exposure to drug development, operations, risk management, successful decision-making, strategic execution.
• Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment.
• Experience in managing remote/virtual teams and an ability to influence and align stakeholders, while modeling and driving AbbVie’s leadership attributes.
• Able to remove obstacles and provide support that enables direct reports to achieve results.
• Able to successfully coach and mentor both with direct reports and in a matrix environment.
• Clear & Courageous: Actively provides transparent, accurate, and timely feedback to help direct reports improve performance.
• Analytic & Critical Thinking Skills: Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and the ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives and drive SMART SURE decision making and timely outcomes.
• Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Acts with integrity in accordance with ABBVIE code of business conduct. Evangelist for RBQM within the organization, promoting value of early detection in de-risking studies. Strong English language skills—spoken, written, and conversational. Lead dynamic meetings and create engaging presentations. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate persuasively and with clarity, flexibility, and adaptability to changing requirements, resourcefulness, and creativity. Demonstrated proactive and positive team player. Able to maintain calm, cool, collected, and competent composure in high pressure situations in order to ensure successful hand-off to stakeholders responsible for taking action.
• Organizational Skills: Exhibits strong planning and organizational skills and high level of flexibility in a dynamic environment with competing projects and deadlines.
• Computer Skills: Comfortable with use/operation of data analytics and visualization tools for oversight. Competent with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams).