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Clinical Trial Liaison Manager

ID:  1442
Date of Posting:  Jun 13, 2025
Business Area:  Clinical
Job Type:  Direct Employee
On site / Remote / Hybrid:  On Site
Location: 

Basel, CH

Territory: 
Full-Time or Part-Time:  Full Time
Seniority:  Mid-senior

With its beginnings in a family run pharmacy in Correggio, Italy in the 1920s, Recordati is now a global pharmaceutical company, listed on the Italian stock exchange, with over 4,500 employees and turnover of over Euro 2bn.

We are a group of like-minded, passionate individuals who go to extraordinary lengths for our patients, customers, partners, investors and the people across the globe who we serve. We develop and commercialise medicines to serve people living with common diseases, as well as those living with some of the rarest, in around 150 countries.

At Recordati, our mantra is simple. We’ve always believed that health, and the opportunity to live life to the fullest, is a right, not a privilege. Whether that is for common diseases or the rarest – we want to give people the opportunity to be the best version of themselves.

This drive will never stop. Together, we will always be reimagining tomorrow – with new ideas, new technologies and new innovations to fight diseases.

Recordati. Unlocking the full potential of life.

Job Purpose

The CTLM Clinical Trial Liaison Manager is responsible for the oversight of site and country trial delivery and performance in terms of subject recruitment, adherence to protocol and regulations and timely delivery of high-quality data.  The CTLM oversees in-field activities of the contracted CRO for a study, typically focused on the CRA team as part of trial Sponsor oversight of outsourced trial responsibilities.  CTLMs additionally provide direct support to local site staff, CRO CRAs and other trial team members within the assigned country(ies) as required to enable successful trial conduct. The role interacts with cross-functional project teams, ensuring adherence to project plans, applicable regulatory, GCP and SOP requirements and company policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

  • Acts as an ambassador for Recordati supporting its positioning as a sponsor of choice, sponsor ‘face’ with the Investigator and site staff. The CTLM has a broad knowledge of the company strategy and pipeline potential.
  • Drives enrolment at the Principal Investigator level mainly and works closely with CRAs and Site Coordinator to ensure they understand the PI’s enrolment strategy.
  • In conjunction with Investigators and CRAs, works to facilitate collaboration between different departments or groups within the same trial site to optimise the enrolment of trial subjects.
  • Oversees and tracks patient recruitment for sites and pro-actively identify ways to prevent recruitment delays.
  • Ensures data quality and data integrity meet GCP and local regulations, through data review (remote and onsite).
  • Conducts Sponsor Oversight Monitoring Visits (SOVs) to ensure accurate and compliant monitoring (e.g. SDR, SDV) by the CRO and study progress visits to trial sites.
  • Maintains accountability for long-term operational partnerships with key sites, providing local intelligence.
  • Pro-actively identify issues and look for solutions in the assigned clinical trial and timely escalate them to the Lead CSM, CSM vendor/CRO or Local CSM.

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) in pharmaceutical science, chemistry, biology, medical/healthcare or comparable background

Required Skills and Experience

  • 4 to 5 years of site monitoring or site oversight responsibilities
  • Understand the healthcare therapeutic landscape, patient pathways and investigative sites
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and relationship management of multiple stakeholders, internally and externally, including sites, KOLs, networks, PAGs, CROs and others
  • Leadership with the ability to overcome challenges, seek opportunities to remove barriers, influence without authority
  • Highly developed organizational skills, problem solving, analytic and able to prioritize
  • Experience with tools and systems for managing clinical studies

Technical Competencies

Required Behaviours and Competencies

Required Languages

English, French fluent written and spoken

Any additional language is considered beneficial

Travel required in %

Approximately 60%

At Recordati we believe in people! Inspired by our purpose - unlocking the full potential of life - we are committed to creating a diverse environment and cultivating a culture of inclusion. We strive to continually lead with our values and beliefs, enabling our employees to bring their whole selves to work and develop their potential.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, develop and reward without regard to, amongst others, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental ability, race, ethnicity, political or religious belief.

If you are looking to join a company where you can try new things, speak openly, and be bold, we invite you to apply today.

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