Senior Solution Enablement Lead

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.

At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. We believe in our values, Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.

This role will work within our innovative Data & Technology group that continues to evolve to meet business needs, fuel Parexel's growth and enable improved support for stakeholders, including customers and ultimately patients, who will benefit from Parexel's integrated processes and systems.

This role will be based in the UK and can be fully home based and remote working anywhere in the UK only.

As the Senior Solution Enablement Lead (SEL) in the D&T group you will act for one or more business solutions at Parexel with a small scope, covering an individual department or small part of the overall business process.

Your main accountability is to represent your assigned business solution(s) in the technology and process domain to ensure the business maximizes the benefits and return on investment for their solution and improve our ability to serve the needs of patients, sites, sponsors, and internal staff. To achieve this, you will need to strongly collaborate with other internal and external stakeholders during the identification, configuration, implementation, and maintenance of their solution(s) within the business.

Key Accountabilities:

Business Solution(s) Representation

• Single point of contact for solution throughout the organisation

• Optionally act as business owner for solution

• Form strong working relationships with all solution stakeholders

• Work to resolve any solution issues with stakeholders and other support functions and escalate where needed

Understanding Business Strategy and Requirements

• Understand the business strategy and requirements by regularly engaging with business sponsors, owners, and SMEs

• Manage a high-level backlog of solution changes, prioritized by value to business

• Verify backlog by regular discussions with business stakeholders & periodically present back to the broader business stakeholder groups for full alignment

• Provide input to IT BAs to accurately document business requirements in detail for implementation projects

Formulation of Technology Strategy

• Work closely with all stakeholders (IT, Business, Vendors, Quality) to help formulate the solution strategy and vision

• Socialise the strategy / vision with stakeholders to help build company-wide consensus

• Partner with Vendors to help develop their products in line with our business strategy and vision

• Maintain a long term (3-year) roadmap for the solution with major updates and releases to help communicate the plans amongst stakeholders

Business value realization

• Work with IT and Vendors to continually deliver the highest priority items on the solution backlog. This could mean advocating new features and functions with external Vendors to get these built into their product(s).

• Collaborate strongly with business, IT and Vendors to build business cases and secure approvals for new projects.

• Working with IT, TQM and QA, input into the planning and execution of any Vendor audits required to bring a new vendor on-board and assist QA with the follow-up and resolution of any audit findings with the Vendor.

• Assist IT or the Vendor during the build or configuration the solution and attend regular review sessions to ensure the new functions or changes are meeting the needs of the business.

Education:

• MSc/BSc in a related discipline with experience, or relevant experience in the industry.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Highly collaborative approach to work and realizes the importance of the outcome to the team and business

• Willingness to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork.

• Able to think tactically and strategically for the formation of technology and longer term plans.

• Able to translate complexity into clarity for a wide audience to understand.

• Service excellence mindset and consulting mindset, able to ask the right questions before jumping to solutions and successfully identify the root causes.

• Client focused approach to work.

• Flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and priorities workload.

• Excellent attention to detail and a high aptitude for technology.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Previous experience as a System Owner or Product owner would be diesrable.

• Previous understanding and experience of business processes performed by a CRO in the business of initiating, executing, and reporting clinical trials.

• Basic understanding and experience of at least one business process area (e.g., Clinical Operations, Feasibility, Site Start-up etc.) would be desirable.

• Basic understanding of the technology to be supported (e.g., CTMS, EDC, eTMF etc.)

• Some experience in managing the use of technology in the business, including prioritizing features and functions, and understanding the impacts of these changes on a business.

• Some understanding of technology implementation, training, support, and maintenance.

• Some consulting experience and able to demonstrate the consulting mindset.

In return we will be able to offer you a structured career pathway and encouragement to develop within the role including awareness and understanding of the industry. You will be well supported and in return for your hard work you will be rewarded with a competitive base salary, life assurance, dental cover, healthcare cover, pension scheme, holiday as well as other leading benefits you would expect with a top company in the CRO Industry.

Apply today to begin your Parexel journey!

Parexel is a leading global clinical research organization (CRO) providing insights-driven Clinical and Consulting solutions to the world’s life sciences industry. Leveraging deep local knowledge and a global breadth of clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our professionals worldwide work in partnership with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind — broadening access and making clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere.

Our proven track record spans 40+ years and drives us forward, advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas while harnessing innovation to drive efficiencies across every phase of the clinical development process. Our insights-driven approach, proven delivery and trusted execution are accelerating the delivery of life-changing treatments to patients — With Heart.™