Senior Trial Master File Study Owner

Are you a Trial Master File expert looking for your next role? Then, Cencora Pharmalex is your career opportunity!
Cencora PharmaLex is looking for an experienced Senior Trial Master File Study Owner to work within our Professional Services team on a full-time, 6 month fixed-term contract. This is a fully remote role with working hours expected to match the requirements of the customer’s business day. Travel is not an expectation of the role, however occasional travel may be required depending on customer requirements, for example in the case of an inspection or to complete paper TMF activities.

Candidates must be based in the UK for this opportunity and be available to start on 23rd May 2024.

About us:

Are you looking for a dynamic company with daily new challenges and opportunities?

Then, Cencora Pharmalex is your career opportunity. Cencora Pharmalex is one of the leading service companies for the Pharmaceutical Industry globally and is specialized in all aspects of drugs and medical devices approval, of the market development and any action of effective product maintenance. Customers place their trust in Cencora Pharmalex because of our proven mastery over the TMF-related questions and challenges they face every day.

About the role:

The Senior Trial Master File Study Owner provides pivotal support and subject matter expertise (SME) at a study level, proactively ensuring our clients’ Trial Master Files (TMFs) are achieving an inspection ready state. They are an integral part of the study team, becoming a single point of contact to help maintain TMF health, consistency, and compliance across clinical trials within the organisation.

What are we offering our Senior Trial Master File Study Owner?

• The salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience
• 25 days holiday plus BH (increasing to 27 after qualifying service)
• 8% employer pension contribution (pro rata)
• An opportunity to work within an organisation with a positive work/life balance environment 
• Continuous development opportunities through knowledge and experience as well as training

Key responsibilities as our Senior Trial Master File Study Owner:

• Remain Familiar with relevant SOPs and processes to be able to support and signpost study team to relevant guidance, e.g., Good Documentation Practices.
• Support the setup of the study-specific TMF structure, liaising with the Study Team to establish requirements
• Monitor study events and ad hoc changes, ensuring updates to the study-specific TMF structure are implemented
• Write/initiate creation of the study-specific TMF Management Plan in collaboration with Study Team
• Ensure ongoing adherence to TMF SOPs and specifications
• Create study-specific TMF Index (or equivalent)
• Perform and/or support Quality Review and perform spot-checks for quality oversight
• Provide TMF Health status updates and review metric reports outputs on a recurring basis, with guidance on improving and maintaining
• Help facilitate, track, and support periodic Study Team TMF Reviews
• Perform a deep-dive of report outputs; identify and share trends and risk areas with Study Teams
• Manage remediation and reconciliation projects
• Support audits and inspections
• Support implementation of CAPAs at study level
• Identify and escalate risk and trends impacting Inspection Readiness
• Facilitate TMF-focused communication and collaboration between Sponsor and CROs
• Communicate to the Study Manager (or equivalent) on all aspects of the TMF
• Build proactive relationships with study teams, providing continued SME support
• Understand and utilise appropriate escalation pathways
• Act as TMF SME, including related processes, to provide ongoing support to Study Team
• Conduct training for Study Team and/or colleagues, either 121 or in group setting

What we're looking for in our Senior Trial Master File Study Owner:

• 5 years relevant industry experience in Clinical or TMF Operations oversight is essential.
• Excellent knowledge of:
  • Good Documentation Practices (GDP)
  • Document recognition
• Good knowledge of:
  • Referencing/Applying applicable resources
• Working knowledge of:
  • Clinical trial lifecycle
  • TMF Reference Model (or equivalent)
  • eTMF systems
  • TMF Health & Metrics, including Quality Review process
  • Internal communication/escalation pathways
• Familiar with:
  • TMF lifecycle
  • Other clinical/document management systems
  • TMF stakeholders
  • End to end tasks, including TMF set-up process and Management Plans
  • TMF training
  • Inspection Readiness
  • External communication/escalation pathways

To join our team as a Senior Trial Master File Study Owner, please click ‘apply’ now.

Cencora Pharmalex is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to join our growing team. At Cencora Pharmalex we make sure that we comply equality, diversity and inclusion in all our offices and prohibit against any discrimination on basis of race, religion, colour, sex, age, marital status or disability status etc.

No agencies please.