Head of Study, Site Management and Monitoring

London, UK💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-29 → 2026-08-10

Core

Senior leadership role providing strategic oversight and operational excellence of global Country Operations activities for clinical trials, managing the lifecycle from feasibility to inspection readiness under a Functional Service Provider (FSP) model.

Role type

Senior leadership IC clinical development operations manager

Builds

Global clinical trial operations and FSP delivery framework

Domain

Biopharmaceuticals / Clinical Development

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Strategic planning, operational excellence, FSP management, site selection and engagement, regulatory compliance, cross-functional partnership, governance, inspection readiness

Preferred skills

Data-driven decision making, portfolio management, stakeholder management

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Define and execute global Site Engagement Strategy, lead identification and prioritization of strategic sites, ensure alignment with clinical development objectives and regulatory expectations, partner with CDO TA Clinical Operations and other functions to enable timely study delivery, maintain process ownership and governance of FSP partners

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Ipsen

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation. Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excell