Erin Smith Email & Phone Number

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Manage statewide team of 13 who perform all aspects of oncology trials from site selection to closeout, resulting in site start-up timeline of 3-6 weeks, and first site open/first patient enrolled with approximately.
• Identifies areas for efficiency improvement and initiates tools/processes for Phases 1-3 Coordinators and Data Coordinators.
• Provide study specific training of existing and new team members.
• Communicates quality and performance improvement opportunities and collaborates with staff in the development of action plans for improvement which include development of performance metrics.
• Promote educational opportunities to further oncology knowledge of all research team.
• Identify low accruing trials and conduct meeting between research team and physician team to discuss and identify ways to accrue or what the roadblocks are.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Provide consultative support, coaching and partnership to both leaders and team members.Drive talent initiatives and associated business results.
• Partner with Compensation to build position descriptions and discuss appropriate salary ranges, improving pay disparities.
• Create workplace policies and procedures improving branch-wide equity.
• Cultivate talent pipelines, workforce planning, retention and effective succession planning as part of talent acquisition.
• Conduct screening interviews, train leadership on behavioral based panel interviewing, and manage overall onboarding process for new talent, scoring a 98% overall from new hires on the screening and onboarding process.
• Facilitate succession planning meetings with people leaders to discuss current talent status, development plans, and forecasting.

Omaha, NE

• Direct programs, projects, grants, staff, finances for an oncology research non-profit organization. Budget planning and forecasting a $500k/year budget. Strategic planning and relationship building to expand business..
• Develop initiatives for strategic growth by identifying needs of oncology research in rural areas which allows for rural access to clinical trials increasing clinical trial enrollment by 30%, resulting in an additional.
• Cut company operating budget by 50% through renegotiation of contracted services.
• Analyze local market to identify new business opportunities, boosting revenue by approximately $250K/year.
• Execute extensive job description evaluation with salary analysis and adjusting compensation to market value, increasing morale of employees and reducing turnover by 80%.
• Launched employee perk plan which increased employee satisfaction and increased retention by 40%.

Omaha, NE

• Ensured Federal and local regulatory compliance to FDA of 300 NCI studies in the Omaha/Lincoln metro areas.
• Cut the workload in half by consolidating studies from two IRBs into one in a 6 month period.
• Utilized project management tools to update 300 studies during the first six weeks of work, helping to streamline workflow and tasks.
• Wrote previously unwritten privacy and electronic policies for the program.
• Contract and budget review/negotiations, expense invoicing.

Omaha, NE

• Managed and assisted pharmaceutical clinical research studies at Creighton University in oncology. Centralized federal and local regulatory compliance of multidisciplinary pharmaceutical trials in Omaha, NE.
• Successfully filed an IND with the FDA for individual patient use of an investigational drug for terminal patient.
• Undertook the duties of five FTE, due to the office downsizing over the course of two years.
• Prepared all regulatory documentation from study startup to closure of approximately 15 studies following FDA compliance guidelines.
• Managed over 100 patients on follow up, and approximately 15 in active treatment, including protocol compliance, data completion and query resolution.