Vendor Start Up Manager, sponsor dedicated (eCOA, PRR, Lab)

Job overview

As a Vendor Lead, you will be a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for supplier services at a trial level and be the first point for issue escalation during study start up, acting as a conduit for clear communication and robust daily oversight.

Main responsibilities

• Maintain close interaction and collaboration with study team lead and study team members during study lifetime.

• Review of the vendor and category related specific sections of the protocol, ensuring vendor expertise is leveraged when refining specifications towards Final Protocol.

• Ensure changes to protocol or study designs are consistently shared with vendors and incorporated into supplier budgets, timelines, and specifications.

• Contribute to development of Study Specification Worksheet (SSW) to facilitate bid process and selection of Vendors.

• Quote/Proposal review in collaboration with procurement (and vendor). If required, support contract negotiations.

• Vendor budget review of final quotes.

• Co-ordinate vendor kick-off meeting and other vendor specific meetings.

• Collect HA submission documents from vendor, as requested by countries participating in a study.

• Support amendment of vendor contracts with Procurement team.

• Optimise a frontloaded and timely study start-up process in support of a timely vendor DB-go-live.

• Pro-actively create and maintain vendor related risk maps with contingency plan for documentation.

For eCOA vendor manager:

• Responsible for directing the vendor on the specific study requirements for system set up and leading the design, build, testing and validation of the system (UAT).

• Collaborate with the Study Lead, External Relationship Lead, Procurement, and the Quality Assurance teams (QA) to assure the set up and delivery of ECOA supplier providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in health care or other scientific discipline required.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including good command of English language.

• Previous experience in vendor management, system design, demand & contracting process.

• Expertise with one of these vendors is required: eCOA, IRT, Central lab, Patient Recruitment and Retention.