Associate Patient Recruitment & Retention Strategy Director

Role Summary

Located in Alameda, CA with relocation assistance. Join a team that has a direct connect to cancer patients. The Associate Patient Recruitment and Retention Strategy Director is involved in executing Exelixis’ comprehensive strategy for oncology clinical trial recruitment and retention across the pipeline. The role includes developing and implementing patient support materials, community outreach initiatives, and standard procedures across programs to support recruitment and retention efforts, with opportunities to integrate the patient voice across clinical trials. This role is an active member of the Clinical Operations Team and collaborates across the organization to ensure trials are feasible, patient-centric, and diverse and inclusive. It leads the implementation of recruitment and retention strategy while promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in trials, and collaborates with internal and external parties to meet enrollment and retention goals. There is potential to span into Informed Consent and re-consent of participants and to innovate in both areas.

Responsibilities

• Deploy effective patient recruitment and retention strategies across the Exelixis clinical trial portfolio.
• Evaluate and implement novel patient recruitment and retention strategies to achieve overall enrollment and demographic targets.
• Implement the patient strategy for incorporating the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion corporate objectives into clinical programs and trial designs.
• Partner with Digital Technology to develop AI/ML techniques, market-driven research, decentralized approaches, and other capabilities to increase access to and engagement with trials for representative populations.
• Work with vendors that support recruitment activities and routinely assess vendor performance based on recruitment and retention metrics.
• Collaborate with Exelixis Patient Advocacy to ensure strategies reach and engage the targeted patient population and capture the Patient Experience and Voice.
• Collaborate with Study Delivery Leads to ensure effective site-specific recruitment and retention planning and implementation.
• Oversee the development of study awareness, recruitment, and retention materials.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop tactics to reach recruitment and retention goals, including more patient-friendly study documents.
• Collaborate with Clinical Operations Team and Study Delivery Leads to develop a repository of recruitment/study awareness materials and tools.
• Support Exelixis Public Relations and external corporate giving or Employee Resource Group initiatives (e.g., community service).

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Science, Business, or related discipline and a minimum of 11 years of related experience; or,
• MS/MA degree in Science, Business, or related discipline and a minimum of 9 years of related experience; or,
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• May require certification in assigned area.
• Typically requires at least 6 years of experience in developing and implementing clinical trial recruitment and diversity plans.

Skills

• Collaboration in complex matrix-run organizations.
• Experience across different tumor indications, clinical trial phases, and in clinical trial diversity and inclusion.
• Ability to think through, provide solutions, and innovate to recruit and retain participants for clinical trials.
• Knowledge of GCP and regulatory requirements related to conducting clinical trials worldwide.
• Ability to identify and implement methods, techniques, procedures, and evaluation criteria to achieve results.
• Ability to perform a variety of complicated tasks with creativity and latitude.
• Strong analytical and business communication skills.

Education

• BS/BA degree in Science, Business, or related discipline and a minimum of 11 years of related experience; or,
• MS/MA degree in Science, Business, or related discipline and a minimum of 9 years of related experience; or,
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• May require certification in assigned area.