Associate Director of Clinical Operations Management

1 month ago

København S, Denmark Ferring Pharmaceuticals AS Full time

Are you ready to take on a leadership role in driving change and building a strong and newly established, global Clinical Operations Management function?

At Ferring, we have embarked on a journey towards One Global R&D, ensuring our ability to handle the growth of future pipelines and operate in a truly global manner. This requires global and cross-functional alignment of how we operate, structure, and define processes within Global Clinical Operations (GCO).

We are looking for a leader to head up the Clinical Operations Management function. In this role you will be leading a team of Clinical Operations Managers (COM) - and Clinical Trial Associates (CTA) - both very critical roles in ensuring the end-to-end execution of our global clinical trials. The COMs plays an instrumental role in leading and executing operational aspects of a clinical trial strongly supported by the CTAs. In this role you will be responsible for inspiring change, ensuring streamlined operation, and leading your team through our current transformative journey.

"I need YOU as a leader to play a vital role in driving operational effectiveness and ensuring consistency in trial execution while guiding your team through this transformation, enabling them to elevate their roles within Clinical Operations Management" elaborates Kashifa Ahmad Wichmann, Vice President of Global Clinical Operations.

Ferring + YouYou will be part of Global Clinical Operations (GCO), responsible for the planning and executing of clinical trials in phases 1-4 within all of Ferring's therapeutic areas.

Your role will be critical in optimizing the end-to-end execution of clinical trials and implementing a simplified new operational model set up to accelerate the trial startup phase, drive operational effectiveness, provide scalability, and ensure consistency in execution. You will be part of a workstream defining and ensuring roll out of the newly established COM function within GCO.

You will take a seat on the Global Clinical Operations Leadership Team alongside leaders from Clinical Site Management, Clinical Data Management, Clinical Phase I Management, and Clinical Recruitment & Contract Management and as a leadership team you will have a stake in setting the strategic direction of GCO in Ferring.

To ensure One Global mindset within your function, you will align processes and procedures with your counterpart in the US, to ensure seamless management of clinical studies, enhancing our ability comply to changing internal and external demands, ultimately contributing to a strong pipeline. The role requires a high degree of collaboration across geographical regions and therefore also necessitates working across time zone differences.

Your day at FerringYou will work from our International PharmaScience Center (IPC) in Copenhagen, and a vital part of your responsibility will be to steer your team through our transformation journey and develop the clinical operations management roles and competencies while ensuring high-quality deliverables on current and future projects. You will have great visibility in the organization, be able to collaborate broadly across the organization, and actively influence and challenge the status quo.

Dividing your time between people management and strategy, you will:

  • Ensure your team is dedicated to effectively and successfully ensure operational execution of our global clinical trials
  • Manage resource allocation and prioritization of project pipeline
  • Develop, support, and encourage your team and your function
  • Represent your function as member of a global workstream building the fundaments for GCO to operate in our new operating model.
  • Contribute strategically to ensuring true globalization of the Clinical Operations Management function

Behind our innovation – there's YOUYou bring solid experience to withstand the natural push and pull of an R&D organization amid transformation, and you find that dynamic highly motivating. You are comfortable making business-critical decisions without having the complete picture, and you understand how to support and encourage your team to move forward and find solutions – even when faced with potential obstacles to progress.

To succeed in doing so, you bring to the role:

  • Extensive experience in clinical development from a global pharmaceutical/biotechnology company
  • Experience from a project organization (within clinical development) and the ability to navigate the inherent uncertainty – e.g., experience as a CORE team member
  • People and/or project leadership experience with ability to inspire and empower your team
  • Act as change ambassador supporting "One Global" mindset and journey
  • Strong business acumen with solid commercial understanding, strategy setting, and ability to adapt to changes
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Fluency in spoken and written English

People come first at Ferring At Ferring, we empower and support each other to achieve excellence together. Here, you are not only encouraged to speak your mind. We expect you to.

We are committed to helping all employees in their career development and ensuring all our team members receive the proper support and progression.

Behind our Purpose – there's YOUIf our mission and your vision align, don't hesitate to apply Note that we review applications continuously and close the process when we find the right match.

If you have any questions about the role, you are welcome to contact Kashifa Ahmad Wichmann, Vice President, Global Clinical Operations, at

For questions about the recruitment process, you can contact Talent Acquisition Researcher Camilla Slot at or

At Ferring Pharmaceuticals, we help people around the world build families and live better lives. We are entrepreneurial and innovative, with a global team focused on scientific advances in the areas of reproductive and women's health, gastroenterology and urology. Ferring + You is all about working together and sharing ideas, so that we can bring science to life for patients around the world. Read more at

Location:
Ferring Denmark

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