Head of Clinical Operations; Asia-Pacific

Our client plays a pioneering role in healthcare. As an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, they contribute on a broad range of fronts to improving people's health and quality of life.

Reporting to the Global Head of Development Operations and located in Shanghai, China. The position requires someone to build and lead a Development Operations organisation
based on the hub in Shanghai to run studies in Asia Pacific, in support of the clients' growth strategy for Asia Pacific.

Summary of key responsibilities

• Ensure the effective delivery of all Clinical Operations activities in Asia-Pacific
• Build the Study Management capability in Asia Pacific and develop the Country Management organization in China and in Asia Pacific to support the regional and global activity
• Integrate the Shanghai organization into the overall global Development Operations structure and processes
• Effectively implement functional excellence strategies in Study Management and Country Management and align standards, training etc with the rest of the organization
• As a member of the Pharmaceutical Development Asia-Pacific Leadership Team cooperate to develop and drive the regional strategy for PD
• Actively manage internal and external stakeholders
• Provide leadership and line management to their reports and other members of the department across multiple locations
• Manage resource allocation to meet business needs
• Identify future needs for resource and identify, recruit, train, develop and retain high calibre talent
• Ensure the performance of employees is proactively managed and they are coached, trained and developed in order to maximize their contribution
• Ensure that staff communication and employee relations are managed proactively to maximise the well being of the employees
• Act as a role model and actively install the companies' values in the team and their activities
• Responsible for increased productivity and efficiency of Clinical Study Management Function and its members.

• Considerable experience of global drug development
• Has a broad understanding of the different areas and issues in Clinical Operations
  and has significant experience of running projects and programmes
• Has led a function within Clinical Operations
• Good stakeholder management skills and the ability to create good relationships
  with other parts of the business and external partners
• Practical experience of developing and managing significant budgets.

• Able to lead a large team spread regionally and operate through other managers
• Demonstrated strategic conceptual and analytical thinking skills
• Has a talent mindset; recruits, develops and coaches the team and individuals to improve performance
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Continually looking to improve and to deliver extra value for patients
• Challenges conventional thinking and approaches
• Bachelors in a Scientific, Medical or Healthcare discipline required. A further degree (PhD, MBA, MD) would be advantageous
• Fluent in verbal and written English with Chinese language skills.

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Alternatively, for a confidential discussion concerning the Head of Clinical Operations; Asia-Pacific opportunity you can telephone Vaché Petrossian on +86 (21) 6288 3632. Please be sure to quote 10319 in all correspondence relating to this role.