Rita Lopes Alcoforado Email & Phone Number

Portugal

Experienced HR leader with expertise in talent management, training, and resourcing, delivering strategic initiatives to enhance employee performance, organizational development, and business growth.Key Achievements:- Talent Management: Designed a competency-based recruitment and selection system, aligning talent acquisition with business objectives.- Performance Management: Implemented a performance management system covering goal setting, performance appraisals, talent reviews, and career succession.- Organizational Development: Led the implementation of an employee satisfaction measurement system and change management model to improve organizational culture.- Compensation & Benefits: Created reward systems aimed at talent retention and motivation, aligned with organizational goals.- Project Leadership: Led the "Becoming" project, promoting continuous trainee development and excellence.Key Responsibilities:- Training & Development: Assessed training needs and coordinated development programs, particularly for leadership, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth objectives.- Resourcing: Led end-to-end recruitment, developed workforce planning strategies, and established partnerships to enhance talent pipelines. Implemented employer branding strategies and innovative sourcing techniques to attract top talent.- HR Consulting: Provided guidance on conflict resolution, communication, time management, and clinical research coordination, contributing to an empowered workforce.

Portugal

Experienced trainer with a focus on talent management and personal development, delivering tailored training programs to enhance employee skills and leadership capabilities across various disciplines.Key Achievements:- Project "Becoming": Spearheaded the "Becoming" project, an innovative development program designed to foster continuous growth, excellence, and leadership skills across the organization. This initiative has significantly contributed to improving performance and engagement at all levels.- Tailored Training Solutions: Developed and facilitated customized training sessions in HRM areas, including time and conflict management, negotiation, and communication, enhancing the overall efficiency and well-being of employees.Key Responsibilities:- HRM Training: Delivered comprehensive training on key HR topics such as stress management, negotiation, communication, and conflict resolution, aimed at improving both individual and team performance.- Clinical Research & Compliance: Provided specialized training in Good Clinical Practices, clinical research coordination, informed consent, and patient empowerment, ensuring compliance and best practices in clinical environments.- Performance Enhancement: Implemented methods to increase workforce effectiveness through structured training, fostering an environment of continuous learning and development.- Employee Empowerment: Focused on empowering employees through targeted skill development and leadership training, promoting an engaged and proactive workforce.

Results-driven Clinical Project Manager with over 5 years of experience leading clinical trials and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Skilled in financial negotiations, project coordination, and quality assurance, with a focus on optimizing clinical outcomes.Key Achievements:- Successful Project Delivery: Managed multiple clinical trials, both interventional and non-interventional, ensuring projects were delivered on time and within budget.- Budget Management: Oversaw study budgets, ensuring alignment with national and international regulations, while maintaining financial control throughout the project lifecycle.- Sponsor Collaboration: Maintained close communication with sponsors, facilitating teleconferences, meetings, and document revisions to ensure project alignment and progress.Key Responsibilities:- Financial Agreements & Budgeting: Led the preparation, negotiation, and management of financial agreements with clinical sites, ensuring transparent and effective allocation of resources.- Documentation & Translation: Translated and revised essential study documentation, including study synopses, informed consent forms, and labels, ensuring compliance with local regulations and clarity for participants.- Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance: Ensured adherence to SOPs, ICH-GCP guidelines, and national regulations, maintaining high standards of quality and compliance in all phases of the clinical trials.- Project Coordination & Communication: Acted as the main point of contact for sponsors, providing regular updates, managing internal project meetings, and aligning strategies to achieve recruitment targets.- Recruitment Strategy: Developed and implemented effective strategies to meet recruitment goals, optimizing patient enrollment and retention rates across study sites.

Lung UnitGynaecology UnitBreast Unit

- Good Clinical Practices (certified by ADVITA)- Human Resources Management: Time Management, Conflicts Management, Negotiation and Stress Management.

Hospital Da Luz

I support, facilitate and coordinate the daily clinical trial activities. On my daily routine I work with the PI, department, sponsor, and institution to support and provide guidance on the administration of the compliance, financial, personnel and other related aspects of the clinical study. I’m lean to help ensure that clinical research and related activities are performed in accordance with the Portuguese legislation, the site regulations and sponsoring policies. I work in order to manage the day to day activities of the study including problem solving, communication and protocol management. Summarizing, I am responsible for the following tasks: - Prepare a categorized budget and justification: I confirm accuracy and completeness of budgeted costs and, consequently, review and develop the contract terms and conditions in accordance with the protocol evaluation. - Coordination and management of the clinical trial, communication with sponsor and authorities, visit coordination, sampling, time management and product accountability.- Participate in the informed consent process including regulatory and ethical submissions and procedures and communicate with relevant authorities and/or with research participants, including answering any questions related to the study. Establish and organize study files, including but not limited to, regulatory binders, study specific source documentation and other materials. - Data collection and management, collection of source documents, using and developing CRFs, registration and management AEs, filing and archiving, managing monitoring visits, dealing with queries - Close-out of the clinical trial, contributing to research article, audit preparation, trial closure, communication with authorities and other disciplines involved, assisting in the final study report and completing financial obligations.

Hospital Da Luz

I coordinate and administer research study associated activities. I assist in project planning, and ensure that pre-established work scope, study protocol, and regulatory requirements are followed. I also support the recruitment process and coordinate research subjects, as appropriate, and serve as principle administrative liaison for the project. In conclusion, I oversee and coordinate the provision of administrative and staff services and support the investigators to be compliant with the protocol’s procedures; Finnaly, I develop and maintain recordkeeping systems and procedures.

Miraflores

Compensation and BenefitsLegalRecruitment and Hiring processDevelopmentCommunicationTraining Performance Management Process (Setting of Objectives/ Performance Appraisal, Talent Process, Sucession and Careers)

Miraflores

I ensure that study related work is up to date, complete and readily available to team members. I provide comprehensive support to the clinical team for the set up and administration of clinical trials (CT) and observational studies (OS) ensuring adherence to protocols and quality of information received, in line with PT & EU regulations, GCP guidelines and company SOP's.In addition, I communicate with all relevant internal and external contacts on a professional level in order to provide adequate information, consult the appropriate persons in case of problems and ensure appropriate dissemination of information to team members.I also support the Clinical Operations team by documenting information concerning the progress of CT's and OS's and maintaining documentation files and study records - including electronic records - in accordance with ICH GCP and the company SOP’s.Moreover, I perform CT/OS submissions to Competent Authorities/Ethics Committees in accordance with PT and EU legislation, submissions to Trial Sites according with their own specifications but also its tracking, ensuring updated and accurate information are available at all time.

Experience in study design, design and evaluation of protocols, data collection instruments for use in conducting epidemiologic investigations.Experience in analysing epidemiological data, interpreting results, preparing reports and data presentation.Experience in supervising, training and reviewing the work of the support personnel.Knowledge of Epidemiological Nutrition.Experience on systematic reviews, bibliographic research and medical writing.

Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Master, Human Resources, 17 (Best Student Award)

Degree, Psychology, 15