Director, Site Engagement & Feasibility

Location: United Kingdom
About the Opportunity

We are partnering with a growing international clinical research organisation to appoint a Director, Site Engagement & Feasibility.

This senior leadership role will shape and lead the organisation’s site engagement, strategic site partnership and feasibility strategy. You will build long-term relationships with high-performing investigative sites and site networks, improve access to suitable sites and help accelerate study start-up and patient recruitment.

Working across Clinical Operations, Business Development, Project Management and senior leadership, you will ensure feasibility strategies are timely, evidence-based and operationally realistic.

Key Responsibilities

Site Engagement and Partnerships

• Develop and deliver the site engagement strategy across the clinical trial lifecycle.
• Build strategic relationships with investigative sites, site networks and research partners.
• Identify high-performing sites and develop them into long-term strategic partners.
• Create site partnership models that improve start-up, engagement and recruitment performance.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex site-related challenges.
• Improve site satisfaction, retention and performance through proactive engagement.

Feasibility Leadership

• Lead feasibility strategy, governance and quality across projects and regions.
• Ensure feasibility recommendations reflect site capabilities and operational realities.
• Translate site intelligence and feasibility findings into actionable study and start-up strategies.
• Support competitive proposals, bid defence meetings and client discussions.
• Improve the speed, accuracy and consistency of feasibility delivery.

Team Leadership

• Lead, develop and support a team of site engagement professionals.
• Manage workloads, priorities and resources in line with business demand.
• Establish clear performance expectations and development plans.
• Drive improvements in quality, efficiency and ways of working.

Performance and Continuous Improvement

• Establish and monitor KPIs covering feasibility quality, start-up timelines, enrolment performance and site satisfaction.
• Provide senior leaders with clear insights, risk assessments and recommendations.
• Champion new tools, technologies and processes.
• Lead strategic initiatives designed to strengthen site access and study delivery.

About You

You will bring strong clinical research experience combined with expertise in site engagement, feasibility, study start-up or Clinical Operations. You will be comfortable operating at a strategic level while remaining close enough to delivery to understand the realities faced by sites and study teams.

You will also have:

• Significant experience within a CRO, pharmaceutical or biotechnology environment.
• Strong knowledge of feasibility, site operations and clinical study start-up.
• Experience building strategic relationships with investigative sites and site networks.
• Previous line-management and team-development experience.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders within a matrix organisation.
• Experience leading change, improving processes or developing a function.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• A degree in science, health sciences, business or a related discipline.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a strategically important function and directly influence site partnerships, study start-up, recruitment performance and clinical trial delivery.

To learn more or arrange a confidential discussion, please contact the Quiddity Talent Solutions team.