Local Vendor Manager

Job description

Local Vendor Manager Shape the future of clinical research by building partnerships that bring life-changing treatments to patients faster. Your new role: As Local Vendor Manager, you'll be at the center of clinical trial execution, managing the vendor relationships and services that enable our studies to succeed. You'll serve as the vital link between our internal teams and external partners, ensuring vendor activities deliver on time, within quality standards, cost effective and in full compliance with regulatory requirements. Your responsibilities will include: - Leading end-to-end vendor relationship management at the country level, driving performance excellence and strategic partnership development across FSP, FSO, and clinical trial vendors - Acting as the primary interface between CDCs, regional teams, and Global Trial Portfolio to ensure alignment with global vendor strategy while addressing local execution needs - Proactively identifying and managing vendor-related risks and issues, working with CRAs, COMs, and cross-functional teams to implement mitigation strategies that maintain operational efficiency - Driving vendor selection, qualification, and onboarding processes...