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Clinical Operations Lead (On-Site)

South San Francisco, CA 94080

Posted: 04/01/2026 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Medical Affairs Job Number: 12583 Pay Rate: $58.00 - $78.00 Remote Friendly: Hybrid

Job Description

Our client is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. They are among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline.

Role Overview:

As a Clinical Operations Lead in a cross-functional, matrixed organization, you will be empowered to work with people across PDG and beyond to enable all teams to perform at their best, foster a growth mindset to optimize potential and talent, and flow to high impact work to advance our medicines for patients. You may have the opportunity to work as needed across one or more areas of PDG including: study management, patient/disease areas, biomarker operations, quality management, systems and process development, learning, insights and analytics, as well as strategic focus areas, such as innovation & creativity, investigator centricity & partnering, patient & caregiver benefit, inclusive research, diversity & inclusion, and other areas.

Responsibilties:
  • Clinical operations - contribute in operational activities that enable trial execution and delivery of the PD portfolio of clinical studies and programs across Disease Areas by providing operational and/or strategic input to the teams.
  • Local and global initiatives
  •  Other responsibilities according to business needs and priorities
  • Promote and support quality and compliance by being accountable for GCP/GVP compliance, data integrity, and taking a balanced risk-based approach in the work you are focused on, seeking guidance or direction as needed.

Job Requirements

Qualifications:
  • At least 2 to 5 years of relevant experience
  • Knowledge of Drug Development and Clinical Operations or related areas
  • Ensures adherence to ICH, GCP, and regulatory guidelines within clinical trials or enabling activities.
  • Thrive in environments of ambiguity and collaboration where authority is distributed between all of the people involved and where advice seeking is foundational.
  • Apply organizing and problem-solving skills to plan and run efficient operational and enabling aspects of Clinical Operations' programs, studies, and/or enabling projects.
  • An effective communicator that shares information transparently and strategically; comfortable working out loud and is an active listener.
  • Building subject matter expertise on specific clinical operations activities through supporting the execution of clinical trials and/or enabling projects across geographies Collaborating across PDG and other functions to develop and implement best practices across clinical operations and delivery of the portfolio.
  • Ability to serve as a resource for colleagues; can work across moderate sized projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.
  • Works in rapid cycles (real-time optimization) to prioritize (i.e., determine what work is essential or proposed to stop in order to create the capacity to focus on what matters) and ensure alignments of priorities to the mid- and long-term outcomes.
  • Fast adoption, foster changes and being change agents for investigators/patients to adopt new digital technologies in conducting clinical studies.
  • Identifies, contributes to and participates in continuous improvement and change management activities to solve complex problems and bring new perspectives. Independently and with some guidance develops plans to support the execution of clinical trials and/or enabling projects.
  • Work closely with Investigator and clinical site staff with a continuous focus on partnership and aiming to position our client as a preferred partner.

Meet Your Recruiter

Jay Hite
Recruiter, Account Manager

As a Recruiter at Compass, Jay enjoys meeting job seekers and helping them to find new and exciting opportunities. He enjoys the process of getting to know candidates and learning all about their experience and what their future goals are. Jay feels the excitement of his candidates and is passionate about helping to find a fit both culturally and professionally. 

When Jay isn’t working, he enjoys bike rides, trying out new foods, tequila tasting and watching movies.  

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