Senior Clinical Trial Manager

About the role

Bristol Myers Squibb is hiring a Senior Clinical Trial Manager in Madrid. The role oversees and collaborates with study team members and cross-functional stakeholders to manage risks and ensure clinical trial deliverables are completed on time and on budget. It also supports internal audit and inspection activities and acts as the key operational contact for clinical studies.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee and collaborate with study teams and stakeholders to identify opportunities, manage and mitigate risks, and ensure timely, on-budget delivery of clinical trial deliverables.
• Support internal audit and inspection activities and contribute to corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), including leading the resolution of issues when appropriate.
• Monitor study updates throughout the lifecycle for compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures (SOPs), including CRA compliance with study parameters, and track escalation and closure of action items from monitoring visit reports in late-phase studies, including protocol registration.
• Monitor clinical trial progress and resolve issues or risks that could affect timelines or study outcomes.
• Serve as the key operational contact for clinical studies, overseeing site evaluation, initiation and close-out visits as well as routine monitoring visits.
• Participate in CRO and vendor selection and manage interactions and deliverables from relevant CROs and vendors under the guidance of leadership.

The company states that it hires for skills and capabilities rather than just credentials, and encourages candidates whose profiles do not perfectly match the requirements to apply anyway. The role is assigned to one of four work models (site-essential, site-by-design, field-based or remote-by-design) depending on its core responsibilities.