Clinical Program Lead

Clinical Program Lead – use your stakeholder management skills
Can you navigate complex stakeholder landscapes and drive clinical development programs?Do you thrive in a core role that requires a strategic overview, a continuous flow of information, and the ability to ‘connect the dots’ to ensure progress?

As part of Ferring’s overall transformation to match the challenges of the future, we are taking our project and program management to the next level. Joining us as a Clinical Program Lead, you will play a central role in bridging the clinical parts of our matrix organization – benefitting not just your colleagues and partners but patients all over the world.
Ferring + you You will join our Global Clinical Development (GCD) organization and become part of an incredibly cohesive Global Clinical Program Management team comprising 5 Clinical Program Leads and our Senior Director.

We continuously collaborate to create more effective, streamlined, and optimal processes for clinical development across all of Ferring's therapeutic areas, which include reproductive and women’s health, gastroenterology, and urology.

“We practice transparent and open communication, and in addition to our day-to-day interactions, our biweekly meetings serve as a space to share ideas and ensure alignment within the team,” explains Henriette Kristensen, Senior Director, Global Clinical Program Management.

Your day at Ferring You will be part of GCD extended leadership team and be a core member of the Global Project Team. Much of your time will be dedicated to stakeholder management, as you will be responsible for a continuous flow of information to ensure buy-in across functions within our project matrix organization. Your work will therefore depend on collaboration, interaction, and information sharing across the organization, including relevant functional experts.

Maintaining a strategic and tactical overview, you will support the Clinical Project Managers (CPMs) in ensuring that all trials are executed according to the approved development strategy, timelines, and budget. The goal is to ensure alignment of execution strategies, program standards, and knowledge across clinical trials within a program.

Among your primary tasks will be to:

• Lead, coordinate, motivate, and drive cross-functional Clinical Development sub-teams for global clinical development planning and decision-making
• Develop and manage clinical development plans, including overall budgets and timelines, to ensure high-quality resource and budget forecasting Set overall direction as part of the Global Project Team
• Enable high-quality deliverables related to clinical trials in planning by supporting collaboration and knowledge-sharing between relevant stakeholders
• Identify areas or tasks with optimization potential within the clinical area

Our spectacular state-of-the-art office, Soundport, near Copenhagen Airport, will be your primary work location. However, as we collaborate internationally, you will get great flexibility in managing your workday – including the option of working from home up to 2 days a week.

Behind our innovation – there’s you You have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, allowing you to make people understand the why, how, who, and when – always with due respect for cultural and professional differences.

With experience in navigating the politics of a complex organization, you know when to push forward and when to step back, enabling you to set direction and ensure buy-in. With your informal leadership skills, trouble-shooting approach, and positive energy, you can make your team deliver.

Additionally, you have:

• Strong clinical development experience
• A good understanding of regulatory requirements
• Project management experience, including understanding of management of global partnerships
• A university degree in natural science

People come first at Ferring Our philosophy of “people come first” is lived through every part of our. We empower and support each other to achieve excellence together. We are committed to supporting all employees in their career development and to ensuring all our team members receive the right level of support and progression.

Behind our purpose – there’s you If our mission and your vision are aligned, please apply. Kindly include a few lines regarding your motivation for applying in the CV or a cover letter. Please note that we review applications continuously and close the process when we find the right match.

For any questions, please reach out to Senior Director, Global Clinical Program Management, Henriette Kristensen, at +45 2878 7081 or [email protected].

If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Mette Markussen at [email protected].

We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this position. Candidates must be located in the Oresund region or willing to relocate at their own expense.

Note to agencies: This search is being managed by Ferring’s Talent Acquisition team. Kindly do not send us unsolicited profiles.

At Ferring Pharmaceuticals, we help people around the world build families and live better lives. We are entrepreneurial and innovative, with a global team focused on scientific advances in the areas of reproductive and women’s health, gastroenterology, and urology. Ferring + You is all about working together and sharing ideas so that we can bring science to life for patients around the world. Read more at ferring.com.

Location:
Ferring Denmark