Associate Director – Clinical Development – Neuroscience (hybrid)
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Posted: 17/07/2026
- cork, United Kingdom
- Contract
Associate Director – Clinical Development – Neuroscience (hybrid)
Are you within the clinical development space and would like to join an exciting and collaborative role that works to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them? If so, this opportunity is for you.
The Role:
Location: Cork, Ireland (hybrid)
18 month fixed term opportunity
The Clinical Development Associate Director provides leadership and direction for the consultants and assistants supporting trials within the Clinical Development (CD) organization and ensures a high performance team culture.
About you:
If you're a Clinical Development professional ready to make an impact I’d love to hear from you. Email me your CV or a time to speak at: archie.smith@barringtonjames.com
Are you within the clinical development space and would like to join an exciting and collaborative role that works to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them? If so, this opportunity is for you.
The Role:
Location: Cork, Ireland (hybrid)
18 month fixed term opportunity
The Clinical Development Associate Director provides leadership and direction for the consultants and assistants supporting trials within the Clinical Development (CD) organization and ensures a high performance team culture.
- Facilitates problemsolving, shared learning and decision-making across clinical functions.
- Participates in risk assessments at the clinical plan level and ensures development and implementation of crossfunctional risk management plans at the trial level.
- Ensures inspection readiness of respective study team(s). Oversees and coaches CDTLs in the timely documentation of deviations, creation of story boards or issue summary documents (e.g. for high risk areas/hot topics).
- Partners with functional, crossfunctional and team leadership to provide operational input into the feasibility and resource requirements associated with clinical plans.
- Provides strategic direction and leadership to CTPMs to enable them to drive the implementation of the Regional/Global enrolment strategy, to accomplish milestones to plan.
- Monitors training compliance for consultants, associates and assistants ensuring timely completion of all required courses.
- Ensures quality in clinical research activities by promoting consistent use of GCPs, global SOPs, and best practices.
About you:
- Bachelors or University degree (scientific or healthrelated field preferred) and 5 years clinical research experience or relevant experience in a scientific or health-related field; or an advanced degree.
- Minimum of 5 years clinical trial experience with a strong working knowledge of the clinical research process
- Previous supervisory experience.
- Global clinical trial experience.
- Prior experience with the management of business plans.
- Demonstrated technical and process expertise in clinical trial development.
- Must understand the drug development process and interdependencies of various tasks and functional groups.
- Strong communication skills. Communicates effectively up and down in an organization and maintains confidentiality with respect to strategic and personnel matters.
- Proven ability to coach others.
If you're a Clinical Development professional ready to make an impact I’d love to hear from you. Email me your CV or a time to speak at: archie.smith@barringtonjames.com
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