Associate Patient Recruitment & Retention Strategy Director

SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE:

Located in Alameda, CA with relocation assistance

Join a Team that has a Direct Connect to Cancer Patients! The Associate Patient Recruitment and Retention Strategy Director is involved in executing Exelixis’ comprehensive strategy for oncology clinical trial recruitment and retention across Exelixis’ pipeline. In this role, there is an opportunity for developing and implementing patient support materials, community outreach initiatives, and standard procedures that may be applied across programs to better support Patient Recruitment and Retention efforts. There is also an opportunity to develop a strategic approach in integrating the patient voice across our clinical trials. This role is an active member of the Clinical Operations Team and collaborates effectively across the Exelixis organization (e.g.,  Program Leadership, Medical Affairs, Product Development, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Digital Technology, Public Affairs and Government Affairs, and Patient Advocacy) to ensure clinical trials are feasible, patient-centric, and properly diverse and inclusive.

This role leads the implementation of the recruitment and retention strategy while ensuring the internal and external awareness of the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion in clinical trials. The individual is responsible for recruitment and retention materials required to increase participation and retention in trials and collaborates effectively with internal and external parties (CROs, vendors, and sites) to ensure that clinical trials meet their enrollment and retention goals. Efforts in capturing and understanding data elements as relates to patient recruitment and retention is also needed. This role has an opportunity to span into Informed Consent and re-consent of participants, with the ability to innovate in both of these remits.

The Associate Patient Recruitment and Retention Strategy Director partners cross-functionally and with  study teams to execute the methodology for delivering the portfolio of studies within the defined budgets and timelines. This includes, but is not limited to, the development of enabling policies and procedures aligned with emerging external laws and guidance (e.g., PDUFA 7, CURES ACT 2.0, DEPICT Act, ICH E17 Guidance), utilization of key data assets, the inclusion of relevant epidemiology data, creation of targets or key performance indicators, and methods to enable appropriate and durable engagement in under-represented people including, but not limited to, the usage of decentralized/direct-to-patient models.

The Associate Director has experience in clinical research (preferably Late-Phase) with experience in healthcare, life sciences, data science, public health, epidemiology, or other global clinical development roles. Specific expertise in patient experience, recruitment initiatives, retention, community partnerships, clinical trial design, and digital health are vital for the success of the role. Partnering closely and building relationships with Sites is also a plus. The responsibilities of this role are executed across all phases and therapeutic areas to integrate D,E,&I into clinical trials at Exelixis.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deploy effective patient recruitment and retention strategies across the Exelixis clinical trial portfolio.
• Evaluate and implement novel patient recruitment and retention strategies to achieve overall enrollment and demographic targets.
• Implement the patient strategy for incorporating the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion corporate objectives into clinical programs and trial designs.
• Partner with the Digital Technology to develop AI/ML techniques, develop market-driven research, decentralized approaches, and other capabilities to increase access to and engagement with clinical trials for representative populations.
• Work with vendors that support recruitment activities.  Routinely assess vendor performance based on recruitment and retention metrics.
• In collaboration with Exelixis Patient Advocacy, ensure that strategies are effective in reaching and engaging the targeted patient population and are capturing the Patient Experience and Voice.
• Collaborate with Study Delivery Leads to ensure effective site-specific recruitment and retention planning and implementation.
• Oversee the development of study awareness, recruitment, and retention materials.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop tactics in reaching recruitment and retnetion goals, including more ‘patient friendly’ study documents.
• Collaborate with Clinical Operations Team and Study Delivery Leads to develop a repository of recruitment/study awareness materials and tools.
• Support Exelixis Public Relations and external corporate giving, or Employee Resource Group (ERG)