Clinical Trial Manager

Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a world-renowned academic research institute of Louisiana State University, is seeking a Clinical Trials Project Manager in the Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory.

The Clinical Trial Manager will manage the various clinical trials primarily occurring in medical clinics and community settings. The manager will also facilitate collaborations of internal and external departments and partners and carry out administrative tasks and help to oversee the trial as a whole.

Major Responsibilities

• Overall Project Management: Assist PI with hiring, onboarding, and exit procedures for lab members pertaining to the PM's portfolio of studies/projects. Foster cooperation and collaboration in a team environment including establishment of priorities, timelines and processes, conducting staff training, performing data review and process improvement.
• Clinical Trials Management: Facilitate study start-up and oversee operations during study for PM's assigned projects. Responsible for the overall coordination, implementation and execution of data collection and intervention delivery at clinical sites to ensure consistency with established strategies, commitments and goals, ensuring that data quality is maintained, and assessment milestones are met. Manage multiple clinical trials, including but not limited to paperwork processing, meeting coordination, design and implementation of project operations, utilization of data entry systems, and grant financial tracking.
• Stakeholder/External Partnerships: Coordinate and support local patient engagement activities and communication with stakeholders. Manage presentations for medical and public education. Serve as a liaison between project teams and investigators at the other clinical sites, strategic partners, external affiliates, and other departments at Pennington Biomedical.  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a science or business-related field.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in management of clinical research. Only management experience within clinical research will be considered for this position.