Manager, Clinical Operations - Belgium

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Job Description

Join us as a Manager Clinical Operations (we may hire at Associate CM/CM/Senior CM depending on experience) - and lead our clinic operations team by overseeing day-to-day activities, ensuring high standards of patient care, optimizing processes, managing staff, and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.

At PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

We are seeking a Clinical Manager for our Clinical Team in Brussels, Belgium to line manage a team of Clinical Research Associates (CRA’s). You can be remotely based anywhere in Belgium but we do require one office day on a Tuesday for a regular meeting.

What You’ll Do:

• Plan and coordinate general activities within their respective departments.
• Work with Team Leaders in activities related to the clinical teams.
• Analyse and evaluate the ongoing efforts of each department, including adequacy/quality within the clinic.
• Liaise with medical director during feasibility process to ensure all volunteer safety requirements are accounted for during the scheduling process.
• Manage internal and external communication and evaluate information vital to bed space to increase probability of study award and to meet client deliverables.
• Oversee the training and development of staff activities and direct workflow to ensure maximum efficacy of complex processes. Work with management to offer training to clinical team members for an overall awareness of study placement.
• Manage staff, which may include interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching and mentoring, employee counselling, and separations. Approve courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action, and terminations. Review and approve time records, expense reports, request for leave, and overtime.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years).
• Ideally 1+ year of leadership responsibility
• Required to have had experience working as a Clinical Research Associate

In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Manages experienced professionals and / or subordinate management who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments. Often heads one or more sections or a small department.
• Expert knowledge of relevant regulations, eg ICH/GCP, FDA guidelines, etc
• Strong organizational skills
• Performance management abilities
• Excellent judgment and decision making skills
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and problem solving ability
• Time management skills
• Attention to detail
• Good computer skills including Microsoft Office
• Ability to motivate and integrate teams and teach/mentor team members

Closing date, EOB, Wednesday 12th November 2026

 
Why Join Us?

When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you become part of a global team that values passion, innovation, and a commitment to scientific excellence. You’ll work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience—and where your contributions truly make a difference.

Apply today to help us deliver tomorrow’s breakthroughs.