【職務内容 / Job Description】
Clinical Site Lead (CSL) is a field-based role within Site Management & Monitoring (SMM) at AstraZeneca K.K., dedicated to supporting clinical trials within Japan. The CSL will be assigned to dedicated disease area and proactively drive site performance, enhance site engagement, and foster strong relationships with investigators and site staff based on enhancing knowledge at the specific disease area. The CSL will focus on driving recruitment performance and ensuring strong CRO oversight, without direct site management and monitoring responsibilities. This role will contribute to operational feasibility assessments and provide input on recruitment and retention strategies as well.

【Key Responsibilities】
•Planning: Contribute to the accurate site and recruitment plan
•Partnerships: Establish strategic partnership models and frameworks for deployment across key clinical sites and investigators.
•Communication: Maintain awareness of market activities, policies, trends, technologies, and information affecting the business, to support the ongoing improvement of clinical recruitment efforts in line with company policies
•Strategic Input: Provide SMM input to clinical study documents, including Clinical Study Protocol (CSP), Informed Consent Form (ICF), and Monitoring Plan.
•Performance Monitoring: Monitor study progress, including country start-up, site activation, and recruitment
•Risk Management: Track study performance and delivery risks, and work alongside LST and GST to develop and implement mitigation plans.
•When the CSL is assigned to induvial clinical study, having full responsibility for the site and study management from AZ KK, the CSL will take following responsibilities. 
•Lead and manage all activities related to site management and monitoring including the following with agreed timelines and company standard quality in Japan.
•Plan and deliver a site selection strategy
•Plan patient recruitment strategy including SMO managements and following patient recruitment progress
•Lead and manage CRAs including CRO CRAs to deliver clinical study data
•Develop and manage risk mitigation plans and contingency plans to execute site managements and monitoring from site qualification to site close on time. 
•Lead and manage the quality of clinical study data. 
•Lead and manage queries and quality issues related to site management and monitoring together with CRAs. 
•Contribute to regulatory inspection in the area of site management and monitoring from study set up through conduct and inspection readiness. 
•Escalate issues related to site management and monitoring to an appropriate person and contribute to resolve. 
•Lead certain number of CRAs (incl. CRO CRAs) to in terms of information management and communication related to site management in study team to keep monitoring quality. 
•Contribute to the development of Development Operations Japan by joining some projects or initiatives, e.g. Process Ownership responsibilities, CRA training. 
•Contribute or encourage to innovate clinical trial environment with new technologies which AZ will implement, cooperating with study sites and sites’ staff.