Director

• Coordinate and develop competitive and flexible strategies for potential oncology and oncology-related awards
• Leverage expertise, operational capabilities, and technologies to address client needs during pre-award activities
• Serve as lead oncology strategist for assigned potential awards
• Support other oncology-focused operational strategists
• Co-lead bid defense preparations with Business Development
• Participate in client meetings with Business Development, the SVP, SSPC, and senior operational staff
• Develop relationships with clients’ key decision makers to drive repeat business
• Collaborate with Project Management, Clinical Operations, Data Management, Statistics, Regulatory, and Safety functions
• Support functional teams to enhance client relations and customer satisfaction
• Support business development and marketing through conferences, meetings, webinars, and white papers

Senior Director, Operational Strategy – Oncology

• Set the strategy for every brand in the group
• Run the core brand end-to-end across three markets
• Lead the launch and rollout of a new corporate brand
• Own social and community for the core brand and unbranded categories
• Own media strategy, planning and investment across the group
• Manage channel strategy, investment governance and contract negotiation
• Lead the central media buying desk
• Build an in-house creative studio covering creative, content, design and production with local-language capability
• Own the agency roster and in-housing programme

Senior Group Brand & Media Director

• Lead the Study Start Up group, including SSUAs and SSUA Managers, within assigned regions
• Develop and execute business strategy aligned to project delivery
• Performance-manage and develop staff while striving for operational excellence
• Interact directly with clients to support repeat business
• Collaborate with Project Management, Clinical Leadership, and Business Development to manage contracts and client expectations
• Lead SSU activities including essential document collection, EC/IRB submissions, site initiation, Ethical Committee submissions, and close collaboration with site teams
• Drive process improvements and develop training materials
• Manage teams to deliver departmental metrics supporting business initiatives
• Resolve and escalate complex risks and issues using root-cause analysis
• Oversee SSU performance and teams within assigned regions
• Manage staffing, resources, and departmental utilization
• Drive teams to meet project timelines
• Partner with the VP to improve and streamline global SSU processes
• Collaborate with SSU management in the US and other regions
• Ensure SSU processes are proactive and completed according to contractual agreements
• Apply risk-management principles and identify productivity and cost-reduction opportunities
• Contribute to business development and proposal specifications
• Participate in metric reporting and management meetings
• Identify resourcing and staffing for new studies
• Manage and mentor direct reports, including training, performance management, and career development
• Prioritize multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment
• Ensure transition planning and stakeholder communication for staff changes
• Review and advise on SSU-related SOPs, WGs, and ADs
• Share knowledge with other managers
• Produce concise internal and external documentation and presentations

Director, Study Start Up – EU

• Lead a team of Privacy experts to accomplish privacy risk management goals, best practices and risk mitigation strategies
• Support the business through Privacy Risk Assessments, identifying and supporting mitigation of risks
• Provide privacy guidance, credible challenge and ongoing second line oversight to proactively identify and address risks
• Uplift the Global Privacy Oversight function’s governance and capabilities
• Champion a consistently strong control environment and influence the continued enhancement of common controls
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with First Line Business Unit partners, risk oversight functions, compliance, operational excellence, information security, legal and other teams to drive privacy best practices throughout the enterprise
• Serve as a key member of the VP International’s Leadership team, engaging and influencing internally and externally

Director – Privacy

• Define and lead the multi-year strategic vision, roadmap, and operating standards for R&D Resource Management
• Establish an integrated operating model connecting Functional Line Management, Global Program Teams, R&D Finance, and Governance Committees
• Serve as the authoritative voice for functional capacity, demand trade-offs, and resource bottleneck resolutions during portfolio reviews and corporate planning cycles
• Lead the strategic application of AI and machine learning models for FTE demand forecasting
• Oversee Planisware algorithm design, calibration, and optimization
• Build trust in resource data through baseline metrics, standardized benchmarking, automated validation checks, and on-demand data access
• Sponsor and deploy Named Allocation workforce management tools
• Manage analysis of resource supply versus demand, functional constraints, skills shortages, and burnout risks
• Own global R&D resource analytics, dashboards, executive scorecards, and enterprise portfolio reporting
• Lead quantitative scenario modeling for portfolio prioritization, operational trade-offs, budget cuts, pipeline expansions, and business development integration
• Establish processes for timecard and effort actuals and variance analysis against forecasts
• Influence Functional Vice Presidents, Global Program Leaders, and Finance Directors on resource priorities and investments
• Direct and mentor Resource Management specialists and analytical experts

Senior Director, Head of R&D Resource Management

• Lead the technical and operational strategy for strategic client accounts
• Ensure quality, business value, and successful delivery
• Drive account growth by identifying new opportunities and shaping innovative solutions
• Expand existing client relationships
• Lead and coordinate teams of 30–60 professionals, including managers and multidisciplinary technical teams
• Ensure delivery excellence across projects involving Cloud, AI, Big Data, and Microsoft technologies
• Define and present proposals as a key business and technical partner for clients
• Build long-term client relationships based on trust, value creation, and strategic alignment
• Foster collaboration, continuous learning, and continuous improvement

Director jobs in Spain

Senior Director, Operational Strategy – Oncology

Senior Group Brand & Media Director

Director, Study Start Up – EU

Director – Privacy

Senior Director, Head of R&D Resource Management

Portfolio Director