Description
Alpine Immune Sciences is a leading clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering and developing innovative, protein-based immunotherapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Exciting challenges lie ahead—guided by our core values, we’ll meet these challenges. Join us!
The Director, Clinical Trial Liaisons (CTL) is a critical position within Alpine Immune Sciences (ALPN) Clinical Operations team and will be responsible for developing and providing non-promotional clinical information and study support across ALPN’s clinical development portfolio. Poised and articulate, the CTL Director is a listener and educator, problem solver, and a gifted cultivator of new and existing relationships. This position reports to the Head of Clinical Operations.
Duties and responsibilities
• Will direct field-based staff to forge, cultivate, and maintain relationships with a range of key clinical site/study personnel (Investigators, Study Coordinators, Pharmacists, and Clinical Research Associates, etc.) to build a well-informed and motivated clinical site base for ALPN’s clinical development programs.
• Develop a strong understanding of clinical site practices to curate and deliver clinical site engagement strategies
• Gathers and shares “Best Practices” and tactics for rapid patient enrollment among trial sites.
• Gathers data and information on leading indicators of site challenges/successes and feeds back to the study management team and other functional stakeholders to develop pragmatic solutions to address challenges to enable successful execution of studies.
• Partners with sites to understand barriers to clinical trial participation and develops and implements effective local and regional subject recruitment strategies, suggest local outreach options, facilitate escalation of site questions/concerns, and develop recruitment/retention initiatives.
• Establish process to ensure site staff requests are managed efficiently and effectively, positioning ALPN’s clinical studies as a high priority within investigational site operations.
• Collaborates with ALPN Clinical Operations, Clinical Development, and external stakeholders to support study performance and progress.
• Frequent and varied site and study leadership engagement through presentations at site initiation, office visits, investigator meetings, and/or advisory boards to enhance current and future clinical trial awareness.
• Facilitates identification of clinical trial site and community educational needs for ALPN clinical trials.
• Participates in ALPN community outreach and engagement activities for ALPN clinical trials.
• Maintains business and clinical knowledge of the treatment landscape including current treatment strategies, current and pending competitors, and new therapeutic developments.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, abilities, and prior experience required.
• At least 5 years clinical trials leadership experience
• Previous experience in a CTL, MSL, or similar site-facing role preferred
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and relationship management skills
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 70%; including travel to ALPN at least 6 times/year
• Working knowledge of protocol and clinical drug development processes, clinical study design, study planning and management, and monitoring
• High attention to detail
• Ability to set priorities and juggle multiple demands
• Ability to think critically and be a proactive problem-solver
• Ability to work independently while exercising initiative, flexibility, and sound judgment
• Comfortable working with various levels of the company including senior level management
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Ability to operate in alignment with ALPN’s values
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At Alpine we engage equitable workplace strategies to ensure fair compensation. Actual compensation is dependent upon current market data, experience, and pay parity within our organization. This position is a Director level position, with a compensation range of $200,000 - $230,000. Note that there is a strong preference for candidates to be located in one of the following five states: CA, MA, NC, OR, or WA. We take care of our employees with a competitive benefits package that includes stock options, annual bonus, premium medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, as well as life and disability benefits, FSA, and 401(k) plans. We believe quality time outside the office is vital to our employees’ satisfaction at work, so our flexible PTO plan of 160 hours, generous holiday time (generally 12 days), and parental benefits encourages team members to take time off so they can come back refreshed. Alpine team members enjoy competitive salaries and equity participation (stock options).
Alpinists share a passion for meaningful work and are committed to solving the most complex problems in immunology to create new therapies for patients. We believe in innovative thinking, collaboration, flexibility, bias for action, and healthy debate. To foster our team of outstanding scientists and business professionals, we provide a premier work environment with a state-of-the-art lab and office spaces with truly inspiring views, and an open design to facilitate teamwork.
Our treasured culture has been shaped by our diverse team who truly enjoys working and playing together. We nurture Alpine’s culture in many ways, including all-company social events and happy hours, lunch-and-learn and education opportunities, interest groups like book club and movie nights, peer-to-peer recognition programs, a robust wellness program to help support physical, mental, and emotional health, and more.
Alpine is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Alpine is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Our office and lab are located in the blossoming biotech neighborhood of Eastlake in Seattle. Alpinists enjoy the flexibility to work onsite, remotely, or a hybrid schedule, with evolving options as we prioritize keeping Alpinists safe and healthy. Onsite employees enjoy an open-office layout with comfortable huddle rooms and Zoom Room-enabled conference rooms, a spacious breakroom and kitchen with a coffee bar and snacks, and rooftop access to enjoy gorgeous views of Lake Union and Gas Works Park.
Exciting challenges lie ahead—guided by our core values, we’ll meet these challenges. Join us!
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