• Provides ongoing support and guidance for assigned clinical leaders, clinicians and field leadership for quality and compliance within Federal, State and Local regulatory and Lifepoint requirements related to quality-of-care provision, clinical operations, clinical/medical record documentation integrity, key performance indicators (KPI) oversight and monitoring processes. • Involved in hiring and supporting the onboarding of all new clinical leadership team members. • Works collaboratively to plan and implement standards of practice and protocols related to local, state and federal regulations. • Supports the hospital and division leadership in collaboration with the Divisional Quality/Clinical team. • Supports the hospitals in reviewing and updating all policies and procedures for local and state compliance. • Lead the development and consistent oversight of financial tools and resources that provide strategic insight and guidance. • Implement and manage the standing operating metrics, reports, and dashboards ensuring scalability and alignment to overall strategic priorities: quality and service, growth, operations excellence and talent. • Supports the development and facilitate implementation of clinical programming, promoting standardization, and best practice. • Participates and assists with new contract implementations, departmental, division, and company-wide initiatives and system implementations. • Engages in building and maintaining client relationships with operational leaders. • Perform other tasks as assigned.

• Lead clinical operations across physical sites, mobile units, and traveling clinical teams • Ensure high-quality protocol execution, participant safety, and adherence to GCP and FDA regulations. • Oversee clinical workflows at sites and mobile deployments, resolving issues impacting quality, recruitment, or compliance. • Manage, develop, and evaluate all clinical research staff (CRCs, nurses, mobile clinicians, and traveling staff). • Implement training, competency standards, and performance expectations for all clinical staff. • Monitor enrollment, data quality, documentation practices, and clinical performance metrics.

• Lead, provide guidance and delegate appropriately to a cross-functional study team or oversee outsourced delivery activities to ensure the clinical study progresses as planned, driving achievement of milestones according to timelines, budget and quality standards. • May hold accountability and/or oversight of several studies. • Lead and facilitate communication across all functions, including external partners and service providers. • Lead and conduct investigator meetings and other study related meetings. • Provide input into and hold accountability for the development of essential study level documents (i.e., Clinical Study Protocol (CSP) through to Clinical Study Report (CSR)) in accordance with relevant AZ SOPs. • Ensure all external service providers (i.e., Contract Research Organizations (CROs), central laboratories, IXRS, ePRO, etc.) engaged at the study level are performing to contracted goals and timelines/budget and that adequate oversight is documented and any issues are escalated appropriately. • May participate in vendor selection activities. • Develop and maintain relevant study plans including required input into study level quality and risk management planning (e.g., risk-based quality management, proactive risk and contingency plans, etc.) ensuring that the risk response strategies and issue escalation pathways are clear to the entire study team. • Accountable for ensuring that information in all systems utilized at a study-level (e.g. ACCORD/ABACUS, PharmaCM, etc.) are current and accurate. • Oversee study level performance against agreed upon plans, milestones and key performance indicators (KPIs, quality and operational) by using company tracking systems and project. • Responsible for study budget re-forecasting following initial budget estimate provided by the CPT and accountable for study budget management through the study lifecycle and for providing budget progress reports to the CPT including any financial risks and mitigation plans (as part of the ongoing study change control process). • Ensure studies are inspection-ready at all times, according to ICH-GCP and AZ SOP and relevant policies/guidelines; • You will be the primary Study Management point-of-contact in the event of an audit or inspection. • Provide regular feedback on individual performance to the study team members and their line managers to support their professional development; may mentor less experienced colleagues.