Senior Patient Recruitment Lead

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.

At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Parexel has a new and exciting opportunity for a home-based Senior Patient Recruitment Lead to join our global team! A Senior Patient Recruitment Lead– you will utilize your project management skills to support the operational and strategic landscape of the Patient Recruitment team.   In this role, you will be a critical contributor to Parexel’s Patient First philosophy and while optimizing the patient experience in Parexel-managed clinical trials

Key Accountabilities:

• Oversees the development and implementation of recruitment and retention strategies that will drive enrollment and maintain the retention of patients.
• Must demonstrate experience working in patient recruitment preferably within a CRO (or Pharmaceutical) environment
• Works in a matrix environment to achieve practical, experience-based approaches to recruitment in order to meet deliverables on time and within budget
• Contributes to overall departmental best practice initiatives and processes and mentors less experienced members of the Patient Recruitment team.
• Works to support Parexel initiatives and new business opportunities.
• Must be able to work independently with limited supervision from management
• Ability to mentor colleagues and provide clear guidance on departmental and project responsibilities

Skills required:

• Extensive patient recruitment experience in a global environment together with clinical research experience 
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, competent in written and verbal English
• Strong presentation, problem solving and creative skills with specific customers
• ability to exercise sound judgement and make decisions based on accurate and timely analysis
• Effective time and task management to meet project deliverables
• Experience developing timelines and delivering projects on schedule
• Experience with developing project timelines, managing multiple projects and delivering projects on schedule while successfully working in a decentralized/remote team environment
• Client focused approach to work with the ability to interact professionally with key clients and deliver thoughtful client presentations.
• Ability to influence and pursue new business opportunities and contribute to departmental proposal development
• Shows commitment to and performs consistently in a high-performance environment
• Strong technical acumen with demonstrated proficiency with MS-Office products (i.e Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point)

Knowledge and Experience:

• A wealth of pharmaceutical and/or CRO experience including but not limited to areas of focus in patient recruitment, project leadership, clinical operations and/or sales

Education:

• Educated to degree level (biological science, pharma or other health related discipline preferred) or relevant clinical or business equivalent