Feasibility Site Liaison Specialist

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
We are vital links between an idea for a new medicine and the people who need it. We are the people of PPD — thousands of employees in locations worldwide connected by tenacity and passion for our purpose: to improve health. You will be joining a truly collaborative and winning culture as we strive to bend the time and cost curve of delivering life-saving therapies to patients.

Our goal-driven teams combine and deliver start-up activities for the clinical trials, collaborating to improve processes, cycle and flexibility. We partner with our sites, businesses and colleagues around the world to decrease start-up timelines and exceed expectations.

We are currently seeking a **Feasibility Site Liaison to** join our team in Austria, representing PPD in the global medical research community and developing collaborative relationships with investigators and site personnel to conduct feasibility assessments in accordance with feasibility processes and within deliverable timelines. In this role, you will develop a local knowledge base of sites through collaborative working with local PPD personnel

**As a Feasibility Site Liaison you will**:

- Implement feasibility assessments
- Develop site lists, including research from internal and external sources to ensure the site list is reflective of the defined site profile. Ensures current investigator and site staff contact details are appropriately maintained in PPD systems
- Accountable for completion of the ‘Site Interest Plan’ in CTMS and collection and delivery of associated documents from investigators and site personnel. Document in real time all communication, attempts and follow up associated with site contact and survey responses
- Review survey data to ensure responses are logical, complete and reflective of the question asked
- Work in collaboration with Site Feasibility Specialist to achieve targeted response goals for assigned projects; communicate with the Strategic Feasibility team, appropriate Site Activation and clinical personnel regarding site issues and feasibility risks
- Ensure an efficient, effective plan is in place for site contact and follow up
- Serve as the local expert regarding site capacity and expertise. Work with key local personnel to gather knowledge base and recommend additional sites
- Conduct phone interviews, scripted or non-scripted, with physicians and other site personnel to discuss standard of care and obtain protocol-level input to support trial optimization projects
- Liaise with Global Investigator Services to resolve investigator queries in real time and maintain accounts and contact’ information
- Contribute to the development and roll out of global strategic feasibility processes and best practices.

**Job Qualification**:**
Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree in life sciences
- Effective oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with medical personnel
- Strong attention to detail and quality of documentation
- Good negotiation skills
- Ability to attain and maintain a working knowledge of GCP and applicable SOPs
- Excellent customer focus
- Fluency in German and English language.

At PPD we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognise the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore at PPD you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD truly value a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organisation but with a local feel.
- We have a strong will to win - We earn our customer’s trust - We are gamechangers - We do the right thing -We are one PPD

**Diversity Statement**:
PPD is proud to be an affirmative action employer that values diversity as a strength and fosters an environment of mutual respect. PPD is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, pregnancy, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or status within any other protected group.