Director, Monitoring & Site Management

ABOUT ALIMENTIV

Alimentiv is a global CRO with a singular focus: advancing therapies for patients with gastrointestinal diseases. GI is our WHY and for more than 30 years that purpose has driven our scientific rigour, operational excellence, and deep therapeutic expertise, including supporting more than 70% of IBD compounds in development. We operate as a private, profit-with-purpose company, channeling our commercial success back into scientific research, technology, and our people. With approximately 700 people across multiple countries and three service lines, we are growing deliberately, and the capability of our leaders and our organization is central to how we get there. If you want to do meaningful work, build something real, and invest back in research that changes lives — we want to meet you.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This role is responsible for the day-to-day leadership and operational oversight of the Clinical Monitoring unit (Clinical Operations Leads), ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality clinical trial execution across global studies. Working in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, the role supports operational excellence through effective planning, resource management, process improvement, and a strong focus on quality and compliance. Partnering closely with sponsors, researchers, and cross-functional project teams throughout the study lifecycle, this individual serves as a trusted operational leader and subject matter expert for clinical monitoring activities.

Responsibilities include:

• Supporting policy and process development.
• Overseeing site and compliance monitoring practices.
• Managing staff and contractor performance.
• Ensuring teams, including third-party providers, consistently deliver timely, high-quality service aligned with corporate standards, industry best practices, and global regulatory requirements.

Positions Available: 1; Note this position is cross-listed in multiple locations, and is currently open to residents of United States, Canada, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.

Project Planning

Working in conjunction with clinical monitoring and project leadership team members, identify, develop, plan for, monitor, approve and/or report on project specific processes and services related to site selection, clinical monitoring, ICH-GCP compliance issue resolution, and global project harmonization including SOP and QS document maintenance, periodic site visits and collaborating with IT support to meet sponsor requirements on a timely basis.

Customer Service Delivery

Represent and support the Clinical Monitoring teams with internal partners and external Sponsors to identify areas of improvement, to address sponsor/site concerns and to integrate new technologies and processes. Ensure regulatory compliance, industry best practices, and organizational goals and targets are met and/or exceeded.

Team Management and Engagement

Manage members of the Clinical Monitoring teams, ensuring functional areas are adequately staffed with qualified personnel, providing ongoing support to staff in the areas of work allocation, resource planning, training and development, technology, process development, expense management, employee engagement and performance management (staff role development, evaluations, performance improvement and lost time management).

Third Party Contract Management

Identify, procure, and manage Clinical Monitoring (Clinical Operations Leads) Independent Contractor services, including needs assessment, recruitment, contract negotiations, Corporate and Sponsor policy compliance, training and development, cost monitoring and performance management, ensuring corporate, industry and regulatory service level, guidelines and regulations are maintained.

Product/Service Delivery Support

Provide expertise, developing tools to support project teams and business development in the areas of clinical, site and compliance monitoring and performance during the project life cycle starting from the bidding process through to reporting project findings to sponsors.

Qualifications

The successful candidate should have a College Diploma/University Degree in a relevant field (Health Sciences, Life Sciences preferred, or SoCRA and/or ACRP Certification/Designation) and a minimum of 4-6 years related experience + substantial ongoing training. Experience in managing CRA staff and ability to provide training and/or mentorship to colleagues on a 1:1 basis or meeting setting. Ability to work in a remote global capacity. Strong knowledge of appropriate regulations and guidelines as they pertain to clinical monitoring and GCP. Team player that has a customer service approach and is solution oriented. Demonstrated leadership skills. Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.

Working Conditions

Home-based

€98,500 - €164,000 a year + bonus. Note: While the range above is large, that is intentional, and reflects the full scale of experience we recognize that applicants may bring to the role. A member of our TA team would be happy to discuss regional compensation according to your country of residence at time of interview.