Associate Director, Service Operations
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Directly responsible for multiple product lines L1/L2 support including RTSM, EDC and sensors. Leadership of 7 managers and 60+ staff across 5 global locations providing 24/7/365, L1/L2 support application support. 30+ key clients and 750+ trials live at any time, across all trial phases and therapeutic areas such as cancer, diabetes, immune-system diseases, etc Average of 350-450 new requests/incidents daily from the thousands of users. Ensured appropriate access… Show more Directly responsible for multiple product lines L1/L2 support including RTSM, EDC and sensors. Leadership of 7 managers and 60+ staff across 5 global locations providing 24/7/365, L1/L2 support application support. 30+ key clients and 750+ trials live at any time, across all trial phases and therapeutic areas such as cancer, diabetes, immune-system diseases, etc Average of 350-450 new requests/incidents daily from the thousands of users. Ensured appropriate access, training, security of data, and patient safety. Safeguarding the resolution and direct database change processes impacting patient treatment, safety, data integrity, and supply chain management. Managed data flow issues, resolving alerts or data inconsistencies to/from third-party systems, with over 10,000+ daily integration files occurring. Attended or directed attendance of client meetings, internal stakeholder meetings, or audits presenting on SLA's, KPI's, and implementing needed actions. Lead and participated in service reviews, complaint resolution and support of escalations at the governance level with a focus on continual service improvement, lading to end-user satisfaction to average above 9.5 Reduced the time issues are awaiting action with the team by 5 days (60%). Improved department culture with reward & recognition, reducing attrition by 10%. Directed compliance with industry regulations (GCP, ICH, 21 CFR part 11, and more). Improved standard operating procedures, addressing improvements, audit queries/findings promptly. Achieving 93% of root cause analysis and CAPA’s to be completed on time or better. Yellow belt project completed establishing capacity management plan reducing the deficit by 31%. Optimised global 24/7 rota establishing coverage aligning with inflow and escalation coverage. Reducing yearly costs by £150k and improving SLA by 14%. Determined and coached lean six sigma projects and objectives within the policy deployment (Hoshin Kanri) framework. Show less