Therapeutic Strategy Lead - Level Dependent on Experience

What You’ll Do:

Therapeutic Strategy Leadership
Serve as a champion for staying abreast of trends and development of treatments in assigned therapeutic areas (approaches to care, impact of regulations, patient centricity, etc.)

Utilize therapeutic knowledge and experience to lead and support early engagement, business development growth generation, and therapeutically aligned clinical trial oversight and execution activities

Collaborate with all CTI business units for effective end-to-end therapeutically aligned customer solutions

Involved in the full RFP response process including leading the development of the delivery strategy, contributing text or figures/tables to the deliverable(s), reviewing the CTI budget, engaging with CTI stakeholders across functions, supporting/developing content for bid defense meetings

Business Development – Growth Generation
Provide therapeutic insights and operational strategy in targeted new customer opportunities, supporting all sales efforts in aligned indications

Support all multi-service line sales strategies for key customer base in given indications

Help define targeted customers and sales approaches for new and established relationships

Attend key conferences as needed to support client engagement activities and new business lead generation

For competitive bids and pre-award activities, provide input and guidance during requests for information (RFIs), requests for proposals (RFPs), and bid defense process, to help drive strategy and increase CTI win rate
Work directly with Clin Ops and BD to provide therapeutic insights in the development of proposal strategies and scenarios to help secure new and repeat business

Liaise between Clin Ops, BD, RSA, Medical Affairs, DCT systems and Data Assets partners, and BD Ops to develop study strategies, budgets, and customer messaging

Review RFIs, budgets, and proposals, ensuring market competitive study design and pricing

Support team in prep and/or attend Bid Defense Meetings as required. Travel up to 30% based on work volume. Periodic international travel may be required.

Support the Sales team in the development of strategic plans and sales strategies within specified accounts

Attend meetings/teleconferences (TCs) with (potential) clients as requested

Establish and maintain regular contact and excellent rapport with future and current clients; develop account strategies and implementation plans, and expand through accounts

Collect and synchronize operational inputs for proposal deliverables within the defined process timeline

Works directly with site feasibility staff to determine site/country mix strategy and associated timelines for a given study or opportunity

Therapeutically Aligned Clinical Oversight and Execution
Development and maintenance of tools, templates, training, systems, and vendors that foster efficiencies and effectiveness in running these types of trials

Collaborate with Clin Ops team to provide details about challenges/risks and mitigation strategies

Provide input regarding any key operational innovations (Decentralized Clinical Trials [DCT], remote-based monitoring [RBM], etc.) for protocol development and operational execution

Provide clear transition of strategy history, methodology, study design, etc to Clinical Project Manager (CPM) / operational owners

Support early engagement, protocol amendments, or study redesign as needed, in collaboration with RSA, Clin Ops, Feasibility, Medical Affairs, and customer

What You’ll Bring:

Undergraduate degree or its international equivalent in clinical, science, or health-related field from an accredited institution

Minimum of five (5) years of clinical research experience in project management; at least three (3) years in a CRO operations environment; 5 years of Therapeutic Strategy Lead or similar experience.

Experience in designing and managing clinical trials in therapeutic areas of expertise

Experience in big data analytics as it relates to study/program design and enrollment modeling (including site and country distribution/scenarios)

Why CTI?

Advance Your Career – We invest in your professional growth. Through a structured mentoring program, leadership development courses, and access to ongoing education and training opportunities, including tuition reimbursement, you’ll have the tools to achieve your goals. Our dedicated training department supports your successful career at CTI.

Be Part of an Award-Winning Team – Join a global team spanning 60 countries, recognized for its award-winning culture that prioritizes people. We support your work-life balance with generous health benefits, vacation packages, hybrid work opportunities, and paid parental leave. Through our CTI Cares program, you’ll have opportunities to give back to your community and the world.

Make a Lasting Impact – At CTI, your work directly contributes to advancing medicine. You’ll play a vital role in developing life-changing treatments for patients with chronic and critical illnesses. Together, we move medicine forward, making a difference for those who need it most.

Important Note
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