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**Job Function: **
R&D Operations
**Job Sub Function: **
Clinical Trial Project Management
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Istanbul, Turkey
Job Description:
**Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Senior Site Manager to be based in Istanbul,Türkiye. **
**About Innovative Medicine **
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine
**Principal Responsibilities: **
- Serve as the primary local sponsor contact for assigned trial sites and maintain effective site relationships.
- Support site selection and feasibility/qualification activities, including participation in Site Qualification Visits when needed.
- Acts as a point of contact in site management practices. Able to provide credible and useful insights and input.
- Execute start-up, site initiation, on-site/remote monitoring, ongoing site management, and close-out activities in line with protocol, SOPs/WIs, GCP, and regulations.
- Implement analytical risk-based monitoring at site level and drive timely issue identification, escalation, and resolution.
- Ensure site staff training is completed and training documentation remains accurate across all trial phases; support rapid site activation with LTM/central team.
- Contribute to recruitment/retention strategy and contingency planning in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Oversee investigational and non-investigational supplies: ensure adequacy, proper handling/storage, inventory/returns documentation, and appropriate destruction where applicable.
- Ensure data quality and timeliness: drive complete data entry, query resolution, and accuracy/validity/completeness of site data.
- Maintain inspection readiness through complete documentation and essential records (e.g., monitoring reports/letters, TMF/archiving); support CAPA, audits/inspections, process improvement, and mentoring as assigned.
- And not limited to;
**Education and Experience Requirements: **
- Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in Pharmacy, Nursing, Life Sciences, or a related scientific field (or equivalent relevant experience).
- Minimum 2 years of clinical trial monitoring experience (3–5 years preferred); therapeutic area experience may be required/advantageous depending on role.
- Strong knowledge of GCP, company SOPs, local laws/regulations, protocols and monitoring guidelines; demonstrated ability to deliver trials and solve problems.
- Strong IT skills and communication (local language + English), ability to manage multiple trials, engage effectively with site personnel, and willingness to travel including occasional overnight stays.
**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Business Behavior, Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trial Designs, Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS), Clinical Trials, Communication, Give Feedback, Laboratory Operations, Medical Knowledge, Mentorship, Problem Solving, Process Oriented, Professional Ethics, Project Integration Management, Project Management, Research and Development, Research Ethics