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Summary

The Associate Director, Global Clinical Operations (GCO) Procedural Ownership and Life Cycle Management, will be accountable for the authoring and lifecycle management of all GCO-owned procedural document packages, ensuring they are clearly and effectively written and maintained, are in alignment with other DS processes, guidelines, and policies, and meet applicable ICH and GCP standards. The Associate Director will also be responsible for the creation, management, and documentation of GCO's CRO SOP review and maintaining the master Daiichi Sankyo (DS) SOP list for CRO's.

Responsibilities:

DS Procedural Life Cycle Management:

• Responsible for the ownership and maintenance of GCO-owned procedural document packages.

• Lead authoring, review, and periodic reviews/updates for all GCO procedural packages and associated documents (including process maps) through cross-functional review cycles.

• Establish standard end-to-end review cycle timelines and engage in stakeholder management activities to ensure timelines are met.

• Hold comment resolution meetings, as needed.

• Partner with CQM to develop a strategy to help address facilitation of risk-based periodic review/update cycles specifically for identified high-risk GCO procedures.

• As needed, create and communicate lessons learned for life cycle management activities.

• Keep GCO GSOPC Functional Member and other relevant SOP committees informed of new GCO procedural document packages and/or updates to existing GCO procedural document packages.

• As needed, monitor 1) procedural compliance metrics to support inspection readiness activities, and 2) procedural deviations to identify potential gaps/deficiencies, potentially leading to an update in a procedural document package.

• As appropriate, provide support for GCO process improvement activities, projects, inspections and/or audit findings resulting in the need for either a new procedural document and/or procedural document package or any needed procedural document and/or procedural document package update(s).

Cross-Functional Procedural Management Related to Vendor Alliance and Oversight:

• As needed, partner with Alliance Management for CRO- specific support, or Functional Excellence for any training-specific support which they oversee.

• Master DS SOP List creation and management.

• Responsible for managing the process for the creation and maintenance of the cross-functional Master DS SOP List our CROs must follow for all functional area work CROs are performing on our behalf (outsourced).Initiates functional area review of the master DS SOP list every 6 months and updates curriculum, as appropriate.

• Work with the Global Training Office to create a CRO Alliance Manager account within our learning management system (LMS) and maintain the curriculum in the LMS, as appropriate.

• In collaboration with the DS Alliance Manager, confirm the CRO’s ability to download the DS SOPs into their training system.

CRO Procedural Review and Management:

• Responsible for the review/approval management, and documentation of the Daiichi cross-functional review of CRO SOPs (initial, new SOPs, new version of SOPs), collaborating with Alliance Management, as needed.

• Provide DS functional area curriculum owners with approved SOP list and access to the CRO procedures and/or updated or new procedures.

Other Support:

Provide input/support for GCO metrics (CTBO, SVO, etc.), as needed

Provide audit and/or inspection support, as needed

Qualifications: Successful candidates will be able to meet the qualifications below with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Education Qualifications (from an accredited college or university)

• Bachelor's Degree with minimum of 8 years’ pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience in one or more key functions (e.g. clinical operations, clinical research, clinical science, and/or CQA). Strong experience in procedural writing and maintenance, process improvement, and project management a plus. required Experience Qualifications

• 7 or More Years Strong experience and expertise in end-to-end clinical operations functional understanding and execution required

• Strong experience in procedural writing and life cycle management required

• Additional clinical trial process experience in one or more key functional areas (e.g. clinical research & development, clinical science, clinical quality assurance, project management) preferred

• Strong leadership, collaboration, influencing, and change management skills in a complex, matrix environment including team leadership or project management required

• Additional experience in process improvement activities and implementation preferred

• Experience with process mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Power Point), and Veeva Quality Docs required

• Understanding of regulatory and industry guidance and updates, with ability to apply them to procedural updates, as appropriate preferred

Travel:

• Ability to travel up to 10% For team/global meetings and/or external conferences, as appropriate.

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

At the heart of Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is the fundamental belief that each employee helps shape our success. We have created an exceptional working environment that values and rewards individual contributions, but we also believe in the power of collaboration. We provide employees with the training, tools and technology that they need to excel. Our open communication, emphasis on results, and spirit of personal accountability are hallmarks of our corporate culture and ensures that each employee’s unique abilities are valued and utilized. We invite you to consider a career at Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.