Principal, Global Feasibility (pre-award strategy) - Sponsor-dedicated - EMEA

The Principal, Global Feasibility leads the pre‑award feasibility strategy for sponsor‑dedicated projects across EMEA. The role drives complex RFP assessments, site feasibility evaluations, and cross‑functional collaboration to identify and mitigate risks, ensuring high‑quality deliverables to internal and external stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Independently undertake the highest complexity level RFPs and feasibility objectives across all therapeutic areas, assessing data and analysis required and proposing approaches.
• Proactively liaise with Business Units, Business Development, Medical Directors, Business Analysts, and other team members to review RFP challenges and collaboratively solve issues without oversight.
• Identify solutions to non‑standard requests, applying knowledge and skills to moderately complex activities and appropriately escalating issues.
• Represent Global Feasibility in all internal and external interactions with professionalism, integrity, and quality.
• Work efficiently within processes, delivering an average to higher number of assignments concurrently across therapeutic areas.
• Develop, analyze, and deliver pre‑award site‑level feasibility assessments into presentations and/or written reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain comprehensive records and store all relevant data within internal libraries in a timely manner, ensuring no audit issues.
• Demonstrate excellent editing‑level verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
• Conduct independent research of scientific literature using internal metrics and tools to provide background information.
• Support preparation of materials for and attend bid defence teleconferences and meetings under minimal review.
• Coordinate work of other team members on larger joint projects, multi‑study assignments or alliance/FSP partnerships as needed.
• Mentor junior team members up to Senior Feasibility Lead, providing support on slide deck editing, data collection, and processing.
• Support department management in development of group initiatives and achieving business objectives.
• Participate in developing metrics to measure the impact of data asset use, protocol feasibility assessments, and other departmental activities.
• Serve as departmental subject‑matter expert or represent Feasibility in the development of processes, systems, and data asset assessments.
• Develop, audit, and maintain departmental systems for storage, retrieval, and analysis of historical feasibility data in support of current RFPs and RFIs.

Qualifications

• BS / RN / MS plus 7 years relevant experience or PhD / MD and 3 years relevant experience.
• Knowledge of drug development, and a thorough understanding of global country and site feasibility, clinical study start‑up and business operations.
• Experience in clinical research, including clinical trial conduct, GCP knowledge, and an understanding of study/project management, monitoring, clinical, and regulatory operations.
• History of success in a customer service role with demonstration of meeting customer expectations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; effective presentation and facilitation skills.
• Well‑developed strategic planning, observation, analytical, operational execution, and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong business consultancy skills, including ability to persuade, negotiate, and moderate conflict.
• Ability to multitask under tight deadlines on several projects with specific and unique requirements, while maintaining attention to detail and high quality.
• Ability to synthesize key messages pulling across multiple data sets.

This position is fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the EU Equality Directive, and the Company is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to assist employees and applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.