Clinical Operations Manager

Lead people. Strengthen site partnerships. Help accelerate clinical research. AbbVie is looking for a Clinical Operations Manager to join our Sydney team on a 12-month max-term contract . You’ll lead and develop a team of clinical research professionals while helping drive the delivery of priority clinical programs across Australia. Working closely with investigators, research sites and cross-functional stakeholders, you’ll remove barriers to execution, strengthen capability and help ensure studies are delivered with quality, pace and impact. With exposure across people leadership, study delivery, resource planning, site engagement, feasibility and operational improvement, this is an opportunity to make a visible contribution to both our clinical research team and AbbVie’s pipeline. KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Responsible for the hiring, retention, performance management, mentoring, task assignment, growth, and development of their clinical research team. • Provide leadership and oversight to the clinical research team including, but not limited to: • performs accompanied site visits (on-site and off-site) • accelerates AbbVie's priority programs through close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders • conducts trend analysis and gap assessments to proactively identify training and developmental opportunities for assigned personnel and broader team • addresses gaps effectively to help assigned personnel achieve country and site level KPIs and metrics. • Utilizes AbbVie systems and tools to proactively address performance and mitigate risks and issues. Proactively identifies individual needs of their team members, removes obstacles, proposes solutions, and tailors support to enable successful, on-time monitoring and / or delivery of their assigned study activities of their assigned studies. • Supports, trains and oversees assigned personnel to ensure that they maintain audit and inspection readiness at assigned sites/studies. Prepare and follow up on site and country audits, CAPA preparation and implementation. • Accountable for resource management for assigned team. Provide ongoing assessment and input towards resource needs and in allocating resources in alignment with AbbVie's research goals, priorities, and specific study timelines. Proactively identify and communicate issues impacting resource allocation and provides solutions. • Accountable for the budget management and payments of the assigned studies conducted by their assigned team, as applicable • Leads and supports the team to understand the business strategy and vision.  Supports team to connect strategy to execution and promote collaboration with stakeholders to effectively deliver pipeline. • Drives and implements change through effective communication and management • Creates an inclusive environment to enable team members to reach their full potential. Helps team connect strategy to execution and promotes collaboration with stakeholders to effectively deliver pipeline. • Partners with research sites with high levels of coordinated and impactful site engagement with KOLs, National Leads, Principal Investigators and site staff positioning AbbVie as the partner of choice in clinical trials. • May participate and/or lead global/local task forces and initiatives.  Responsible for activities as assigned by Country Clinical Operations Manager (CCOM). Proactively identifies opportunities at local/global levels and proposes solutions to create efficiencies and streamline/improve processes. • Oversight and delivery of country and site feasibility activities in alignment with local and global strategy and expanding AbbVie’s footprint within the country. • May be assigned on or multiple TA responsibilities within country/ies.  Support training