About this role
Lead Teams. Elevate Operations. Drive Start‑Up Excellence.
We’re looking for an inspiring Clinical Operations Manager to lead a team of 20 professionals across clinical operations — ensuring excellence in performance, quality, compliance, and delivery.
In addition to core Clinical Operations leadership, this role plays a key strategic role in shaping Clinical Start‑Up approaches, bringing deep expertise in Mexico’s regulatory environment to accelerate study activation.
What You’ll Lead
- Full line management responsibility: coaching, performance management, talent development, workload allocation.
- Oversight of clinical operational delivery across studies, ensuring quality, compliance, and efficiency.
- Issue escalation, resource utilization oversight, and continuous process improvement across teams.
Where You’ll Add Strategic Impact
- Guide and influence Clinical Start‑Up strategies, leveraging expert knowledge of Mexico regulations, submissions, IRB/EC processes, and start‑up best practices.
- Support teams in anticipating and resolving start‑up hurdles to ensure smooth and timely study activation.
What You Bring
- 5+ years in Clinical Research with experience in Clinical Operations leadership.
- Proven line‑management capability and ability to lead high‑performing teams.
- Strong knowledge of start‑up pathways and Mexico regulatory requirements.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem‑solving skills.
Ready to lead a high‑impact team and shape operational and start‑up excellence in Mexico?
👉 Apply now and make your leadership count.
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Other facts
About Fortrea
Fortrea (Nasdaq: FTRE) is a leading global clinical research organization (CRO) dedicated to providing innovative clinical development solutions to the life sciences industry. With over 30 years of clinical research experience, Fortrea has evolved from Covance and Labcorp into a pureplay CRO built for biotech, biopharma, medical device and diagnostic innovators.
Fortrea collaborates with both emerging and established companies to deliver agile, fit-for-purpose full service (FSO), functional service (FSP) and hybrid solutions. Fortrea provides comprehensive Phase I-IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, and consulting services, backed by deep experience in more than 20 therapeutic areas.
Operating in approximately 100 countries, our diverse and talented team brings scientific rigor, operational excellence, and a strong investigator site network to every trial. By combining the best of our legacy experience with forward-thinking innovation, Fortrea brings predictability to clinical trial execution and helps transform aspirations into outcomes.
Together, exceptional is possible.
Learn more at Fortrea.com
What you'll do
- Lead a team of 20 professionals in clinical operations, ensuring excellence in performance, quality, compliance, and delivery. Oversee clinical operational delivery across studies and guide Clinical Start-Up strategies in Mexico.
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