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Join Us as a Country Approval Specialist – Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation. You can be based anywhere in the Nordics - Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Norway.
Our company has successfully supported the top 50 pharmaceutical companies and more than 750 biotechs, spanning 2,700 clinical trials across 100+ countries in the last 5 years. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in the management and preparation, review, and coordination of Country Submissions in line with the global submission strategy. As a Country Approval Specialist, you'll play a key role in ensuring that submissions are managed effectively and align with our strategic goals.
What You’ll Do: • Prepares, reviews and coordinates, under guidance, local regulatory submissions (EU CTR) in alignment with global submission strategy. • Provides, under guidance local regulatory strategy advice to internal clients. • Provides project specific local SIA services and coordination of these projects. • May have contact with investigators for submission related activities. • Key-contact at country level for either Ethical or Regulatory submission-related activities. • Coordinates, under guidance, with internal functional departments to ensure various site start-up activities are aligned with submissions activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensures alignment of submission process for sites and study are aligned to the critical path for site activation. • Achieves PPD’s target cycle times for site. • May work with the start-up CRA(s) to prepare the regulatory compliance review packages, as applicable. • May develop country specific Patient Information Sheet/Informed Consent form documents. • May assist with grant budgets(s) and payment schedules negotiations with sites. • Supports the coordination of feasibility activities, as required, in accordance with agreed timelines. • Entes and maintains trial status information relating to SIA activities onto PPD tracking databases in an accurate and timely manner. • Ensures the local country study files and filing processes are prepared, set up and maintained as per PPD WPDs or applicable client SOPs. • Maintains knowledge of and understand PPD SOPs, Client SOPs/directives, and current regulatory guidelines as applicable to services provided.
Education and Experience Requirements: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years). In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Effective oral and written communication skills • Excellent interpersonal skills • Strong attention to detail and quality of documentation • Good negotiation skills • Good computer skills and the ability to learn appropriate software • Good English language and grammar skills • Basic medical/therapeutic area and medical terminology knowledge • Ability to work in a team environment or independently, under direction, as required • Basic organizational and planning skills • Basic knowledge of all applicable regional / national country regulatory guidelines and EC regulations