Senior Manager, Clinical Operations

Position Summary: The Senior Manager, Clinical Operations – Clinical Process Owner is responsible for leading the governance, harmonization, and continuous improvement of Clinical Operations processes across the organization.

The role owns the development, simplification, alignment, and lifecycle management of Clinical Operations SOPs, work instructions, tools, templates, and related process documentation.

Working cross-functionally and across regions, the role ensures that processes are compliant, practical, scalable, and consistently applied.

As a senior Clinical Operations SME, the role also supports audits, inspections, CAPAs, strategic initiatives, and business development activities where Clinical Operations process expertise is required.

This is an individual contributor leadership role requiring influence across functions, regions, and seniority levels. The role may lead cross-functional working groups, process teams, and strategic improvement initiatives.

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to: Serve as the Clinical Process Owner for Clinical Operations processes, ensuring effective governance, clear accountability, lifecycle management, and alignment across regions and functions.

Lead the development, review, harmonization, implementation, and maintenance of Clinical Operations SOPs, work instructions, tools, templates, and related documentation.

Identify and resolve process gaps, duplication, inconsistencies, conflicting requirements, and unnecessary complexity to establish clear, practical, and scalable ways of working.

Translate regulatory requirements, ICH-GCP principles, quality standards, audit and inspection findings, CAPAs, operational data, and stakeholder feedback into effective process solutions.

Lead and represent cross-functional process governance and decision-making, partnering with Clinical Operations, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Project Management, Data Management, Biostatistics, Medical, Training, and other relev