Clinical Scientist & Operations Excellence Manager

Job Title: Clinical Scientist & Operations Excellence Manager

Location: Bangalore, HURC

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Background & Job description:

Clinical research area is a strategic Capability for Unilever Research & Development (R&D). The Clinicals team at Bangalore is seeking a Clinical Scientist & Operations Excellence Manager to support their clinical programs. He / she will be responsible for the delivery of the clinical studies across HUL Foods within agreed timelines and budgets.

Main Responsibilities:

There will be dual responsibilities of managing the clinical from an operations perspective as well as support as a clinical research scientist, including responsibilities for clinical design, proposal, governance, risk assessment and management. Specifically, the responsibilities include:  

• Being responsible for clinical studies from scientific and operations perspective including internal / external CROs partnerships.

• Independent clinical management delivering a study on time in full (OTIF) and within budget.

• Contribute to scientific content during the process of designing, executing and interpreting clinical trials and results.

• Being capable of independently designing clinical trials, selecting potential CROs and putting plans in place for clinical execution.

• Coordinating with multiple cross functions (supply chain, procurement, NPD, legal, finance for ensuring smooth study contracts & agreements.

• Leading internal approvals for POs / payments etc, documentation along with leading operations and coordinating with 3Ps/CROs for clinical study execution.

• Ensuring timely product availability at clinical sites, study monitoring for compliance, and study reporting.

• Engage with cross functional teams to understand requirements with project teams and suggest suitable actions/study design.

• Ability to identify and flag potential issues and associated risks to clinical lead and proactively communicate with project team/s.

• To effectively coordinate all activities with 3P to conduct testing and reporting.

• Capture all relevant data, interpret, and support in writing the clinical study reports and manuscripts.
  

Others:

• This role will require innovative and creative thinking, as well as personal drive for clinical study execution. Able to adapt to changing needs of project and/or business.

• Knowledge of clinical design and a broad science base, with focus on Foods and Nutrition.

• Ability to recognize significance of unusual test results and how they lead to new clinical insights and technical opportunities; ability to handle & interpret data and communicate significance of what it means to teams.

• Fundamental knowledge of in market claims support

Relevant Experience:

Master’s degree in clinical research / clinical data management with a minimum of 6-8 years of experience in Foods / FMCG industry. Candidates with a Foods & Nutrition background along with a CRO experience will also be considered. Experience in biostatistics and statistical analysis is additionally desirable.

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