Research Manager - ISM, Surgery

About the Role

The Research Manager provides operational leadership for the Department of Surgery's research portfolio, overseeing research administration, regulatory compliance, financial management, and clinical trial operations. This individual partners closely with Principal Investigators, research staff, institutional offices, and external sponsors to ensure compliant, efficient, and financially sustainable management of investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored research. The Research Manager is responsible for supporting the full research lifecycle, including study start-up, grant administration, regulatory oversight, financial management, study execution, and closeout.

Responsibilities

• Oversees day-to-day research operations across a portfolio of clinical and translational research studies, ensuring projects are completed in accordance with institutional policies, sponsor requirements, GCP, FDA, NIH, and other applicable regulations.
• Serves as the department's subject matter expert for research finance, including clinical trial budgeting, coverage analysis, invoicing, sponsor payments, participant reimbursement, account reconciliation, payroll allocations, effort reporting, financial projections, and deficit mitigation.
• Oversees regulatory compliance for clinical research, including IRB submissions, continuing reviews, amendments, reportable events, reliance agreements, informed consent documentation, protocol deviations, and regulatory file maintenance.
• Functions as an experienced Clinical Trial Manager (CTM), overseeing study start-up, activation, enrollment, recruitment strategies, monitoring visits, sponsor communication, data quality, protocol compliance, and study closeout.
• Collaborates with Principal Investigators, research coordinators, institutional offices, sponsors, CROs, and external collaborators to proactively identify operational challenges and implement effective solutions.
• Develops, implements, and continuously improves departmental standard operating procedures (SOPs), workflows, quality assurance initiatives, and research management processes.
• Monitors study timelines, milestones, enrollment targets, regulatory deadlines, and financial performance, proactively identifying risks and implementing corrective action plans when needed.
• Coordinates study staffing needs and may supervise research personnel, including recruitment, onboarding, training, performance management, professional development, and workload allocation.
• Ensures appropriate utilization of departmental resources while maintaining high standards of regulatory compliance, fiscal stewardship, and operational efficiency.
• Provides guidance to investigators regarding institutional policies, sponsor requirements, grant administration, and clinical research best practices.
• Generates operational, regulatory, enrollment, and financial reports for departmental leadership to support strategic planning and decision-making.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in sciences or related field (Master's preferred)
• 5 years experience in a hospital/medical environment
• 1 year supervisory experience

Pay

$58,661 - $146,016.14 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.