Clinical Research Associate Vacancy at Dr Reddy’s Laboratories – Life Sciences Apply
Clinical Research Associate Vacancy at Dr Reddy’s Laboratories – Life Sciences Apply. Interested and eligible applicants can check out all of the details on the same below:
Clinical Research Associate
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
About the job
Company Description
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company based across global locations. Each of our 24,000 plus employees comes to work every day for one collective purpose: to accelerate access to affordable and innovative medicines because Good Health Can’t Wait.
Job Description
Job Summary
We are seeking a dynamic independent and experienced Research Associate in Clinical Management for processing, reviewing, and receiving clinical data and records from therapeutic groups as well as internal and outside investigators. Ensuring accurate, timely, and consistent data reaches the clinical teams and other groups.
Roles & Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Study Start-up activities at Clinical Investigational Site
- Conduct Feasibility & assess the data
- Conduct site qualification visits to assess the suitability of sites for study conduct including review of Investigator qualifications, site staff adequacy, site facilities, patient pool & share feedback with the project team
- Collection of essential documents including validation records for site equipment from selected sites for regulatory and EC submissions
- Identify the training needs for the site to perform adequate conduct of the trial
- Ensure supply of clinical trial material to sites before study initiation
End to End clinical investigational site management:
- Initiate the study at clinical investigational sites
- Provide study protocol and related training
- Perform review of Informed Consent forms and narrative
- Perform review of source records, perform SDV
- Review of CRF data entry, data queries, and coordinate with sites to resolve
- Ensure timely completion and review of site visit reports and addressing action items via follow-up letters, and tracking of action items till closure
- IP accountability and reconciliation
- Ensure adequate initial supply & re-supply of IP per study plan to clinical trial sites
- Provide adequate oversight to IP collection, storage, and temperature monitoring including review of log, administration to study subjects
- Identification of any temperature excursions and suitability of IP for subject administration
- Ensure destruction of expired/used IP on site or return of such IP back to local depot, per study requirement & adequate documentation for the same
- Review of completion of logs, filing of relevant shipment etc. documentation in site/pharmacy file
Site Contracts and Site Payment Coordination
- Coordinate for CDA, Clinical trial agreements review and finalization and amendments, as applicable
- Ensure that site invoices are being generated as per clinical trial agreement
- Review and approval of site invoices and submission to the payment processing team
- Coordinate for the payment release & confirm for site acknowledgments
- Perform ongoing reconciliation of payments against site activities including subject visits conduct etc.
- Liaising with the safety lab for timely samples receipt, processing, and release of reports & identify, resolve any issues/risks around the same
- Ensure that the Bio-analytical samples are stored as per storage conditions mentioned in the lab manual including reconciliation and query resolution
- Liaising with other vendors and helping sites in any query resolutions for vendor-related activities
- Liaising with internal project teams including but not limited to Data Management for EDC issues, data queries, and reconciliations, Safety team for SAE-related issues, Medical team for any protocol/eligibility related queries etc.
Liaising with Internal & External Stakeholders
- Ensuring Compliance with Protocol & Applicable study plans, SOPs, GCP, and regulatory requirements
- Ensure compliance with Protocol
- Ensure compliance with study plans, applicable SOPs, and related regulatory requirements
- Ensure compliance with ICH GCP
- Ensure compliance with good documentation practices including ALCOA-C
- Identification of significant deviations to protocol/plans/procedures, escalation to project lead/clinical ops lead, and propose adequate mitigation plans/CAPA, Review of implementation of CAPA/mitigation plans, identify the need for training and provide training/re-training in case of any changes
- Support audits, inspections/QC visits, as required per study plans
Trial Master File Review and Maintenance for Inspection Readiness
- Ensure that sites are timely updating the documents in the Investigator site file
- Retrieval of essential documents from sites for In-house filing/Central files
- Review of onsite and in-house files at defined frequency per monitoring/TMF plan for study
- Ensure adequacy of TMF for all-time inspection readiness
Qualifications
- Educational Qualification: Master’s degree in pharmacy/life science/ Biology/ Biotechnology/ Biochemistry/Diploma in Clinical Research
- Minimum work experience: 2 – 5 years of research experience
Skills & attributes: Technical Skills
- Experience in Clinical Trial operations
- Proficiency in conducting Market research and analysis
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and guidelines such as Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines
- Ability to evaluate medical research data and proficient knowledge of medical terminology
- Proficiency in using EDC systems for data collection and management in clinical trials
- Understanding of pharmacovigilance processes
- Strong MS Office Skills
Behavioral Skills
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a keen eye for detail
- Result-oriented and passionate about delivering value
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