Clinical Trial Center Director (M/F/X)

The CTC Director defines and implements, in collaboration with the investigators, the Medical Direction and the Clinical Research Strategic Council, the development and professionalization strategy for academic and commercial clinical research within CUSL.

Responsibilities of the CTC Director:

• Lead, manage and develop the CTC team.
• Define and implement the development, funding and organization strategy for the CTC, ensuring its long-term viability.
• Enhance the attractiveness and visibility of CUSL among academic, institutional and industrial partners.
• Develop internal skills, optimize processes and ensure regulatory monitoring in conjunction with the legal department.
• Monitor activities and performance, and represent the CTC before internal and external partners.

Main activities of the CTC team:

1. Quality:

• Develop and maintain the quality system in compliance with regulatory developments.
• Train clinical research stakeholders and develop supporting and communication IT tools.

2. Operational focus:

• Provide administrative support for submissions to Ethics Committees and manage research equipment.
• Negotiate contracts, grants and sponsorships, and ensure budget monitoring, invoicing and overhead management.
• Validate recruitment funded by external grants, ensure their proper use and collect the required institutional indicators.

3. Academic focus:

• Provide scientific, methodological, financial and administrative support for academic, European and public projects, particularly for funding searches and regulatory submissions.
• Assist investigators in evaluating study feasibility, regulatory monitoring, pharmacovigilance and materiovigilance.
• Train investigators in good practices and ensure the monitoring and management of academic studies.

📚 Required qualifications and experience:

• Master's degree level (biomedical sciences, public health, management sciences, pharmacy, medicine, etc.)
• Master the regulatory, financial and logistical framework of academic and commercial clinical research
• Have experience in quality control of clinical studies
• Good knowledge of the clinical research field within the hospital environment
• Have proven experience in team management

✨ Additional assets: 

• Have experience in data processing and analysis
• Have a network in academic research (particularly with Belgian and foreign regulatory authorities and other academic hospitals) and commercial research
• Other required knowledge (computer software, languages, etc.);

🚀 Essential skills:

• Fluency in French, English and Dutch.

• Leadership aligned with the institution's Leadership Essentials. In this capacity, the CTC Director:

  - Embodies institutional values and acts with integrity, exemplary behavior and openness

  - Develops and shares a strategic vision of the CTC focused on excellence, innovation and continuous improvement.

  - Unites teams and stakeholders around common objectives in a spirit of collaboration and transversality.

  - Creates a climate of trust promoting engagement, autonomy, employee development and collective performance.

  - Makes decisions with discernment, courage and pragmatism, and manages change constructively.

  - Demonstrates excellent relational skills: listening, communication, negotiation, diplomacy and management of complex situations.