Research Associate

Summary

Join our team as a Research Operations Associate to manage key sites in the TIME research network, build relationships with client stakeholders, and provide ongoing education on access to clinical trials.

Requirements

• Regular travel required (up to 40%)
• Bachelor's Degree and 3+ years of experience in working in oncology and/or clinical trials
• Deep understanding of study start up
• Strong ability to persuade, be strategic, motivate, and influence others
• Proven track record of setting and achieving high personal standards of performance
• Highly organized and systematic, superb attention to detail and ability to complete tasks with a high degree of accuracy
• Persistent and resilient with an ability to be a good listener
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships
• Advanced written and oral communication skills
• Superior analytical, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Tenacious appetite for success

Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact for research teams/care teams for all matters related to TIME trial activities
• Maintain a regular cadence of touch points (in person, virtual, emailing value adds) with targeted accounts (ie 2x per month per site)
• Build relationships with key client stakeholders
• Draft and execute strategic operational plans, to ensure TIME sites can meet JIT standards
• Oversight of all processes included in the above operational plan
• Provide ongoing education to create awareness of access to a portfolio of clinical trials
• Participate in research steering committees (where applicable)
• Collaborate with various teams within Tempus, to execute key deliverables including operations, clinical members (RN/MD), sales, medical affairs, pathology, bioinformatics and data science
• Attend ISAMs (as delegated by ROD)
• Attend TSAMs
• Utilize knowledge of oncology, clinical trial development and study start-up to identify site resource gaps, and onboard sites into the systems
• Assist/pull in a team to create innovative tactics, processes, tools, systems, and strategies to ease site burden/gaps in clinical trial participation
• Incorporate key client feedback into product and process improvements
• Contribute to the development of marketing and sales collateral
• Attend approved regional/local conferences (upon approval)
• Administrative activities associated with the activities listed above
• Oversight of site support staff as applicable (Program Coordinator)