# Site Activation Manager, Global Study Leadership

**Company**: IQVIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Site Activation Manager in IQVIA's Global Study Leadership team, you will lead site activation activities across global clinical trials, working with sponsors, sites and cross-functional teams to drive study start-up success.

You will lead study start-up activities across global, regional, and country-level programs, ensuring studies are activated efficiently, compliantly, and on schedule.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading site identification, feasibility, regulatory submissions, ethics approvals and site contracting

- Developing and executing Site Activation Management Plans aligned to study strategy and objectives

- Performing protocol amendments

- Driving study start-up timelines and critical milestones

- Managing regulatory strategies, approvals and essential study documentation

- Negotiating contracts and regulatory documents while ensuring local and global compliance

- Identifying risks, resolving issues and implementing mitigation plans

- Building strong relationships with sponsors, sites, and cross-functional stakeholders

- Monitoring project metrics, budgets, timelines and performance indicators

- Providing project updates, reports, presentations and operational insights

- Supporting proposal development, bid defence activities and customer engagement

- Mentoring colleagues and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives

To be considered, you will need:

- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or a related field

- Experience in site activation, study start-up, protocol amendments, regulatory affairs or clinical operations

- Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial regulations, ethics processes and regulatory requirements

- Experience managing timelines, budgets, risks and cross-functional stakeholders

- Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills

- Ability to lead complex projects and drive outcomes in a global environment

- Strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills

- Experience working across cultures and geographies

- Passion for innovation and leveraging technology to improve clinical trial delivery

## Skills

### Required
- ICH-GCP
- clinical trial regulations
- regulatory affairs
- clinical operations
- project management
- communication
- negotiation
- stakeholder management

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