Director, Vendor Outsourcing

Job Description

• Pliant is seeking a Director, Vendor Outsourcing with a proven ability to work collaboratively within a matrix environment to lead vendor outsourcing activities for the Clinical Development Organization (CDO). They will partner closely with the Head of Business Operations to implement new or improved processes, tools and strategies to enable effective outsourcing of services to vendor partners. • This is a hybrid position, requiring 3 days/week at Pliant (South San Francisco).

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant clinical development experience preferred with a B.A./B.S. degree; or • 10+ years of relevant clinical development experience preferred with an advanced degree. • 3+ years of experience directly negotiating full scope CRO agreements at task and resource by region level and/or building CRO resourcing models. • 2+ years people management experience preferred. • Experience with site budget development utilizing fair-market value standards preferred. • Ability to utilize complex Microsoft Excel formulas and functions – e.g. VLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH and pivots. • Experience with writing macros or other programming languages a plus.

Benefits

• benefits, equity, and annual target bonus for fulltime positions