Associate Director, Clinical Trial Recruitment

Axsome Therapeutics is seeking an Associate Director, Clinical Trial Recruitment, with extensive experience in clinical trial recruitment and retention, leading teams, and site engagement. This leadership role will drive strategic recruitment and retention initiatives across Axsome’s portfolio of clinical studies. The Associate Director, Clinical Trial Recruitment will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify potential challenges and execute solutions. This role will also be responsible for the oversight and development of the Clinical Trial Recruitment Team.

This role is based at Axsome’s HQ in New York City with an on-site requirement of at least three days per week. We are unable to consider candidates who are looking for fully remote roles. 

Job Responsibilities and Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The Associate Director remains available to execute technical recruitment and retention role responsibilities including but not limited to, creating and reviewing study-specific recruitment materials, managing central recruitment campaigns, outreach to underperforming study sites, monitoring enrollment metrics, and communicating feedback to clinical team
• Develop and lead strategic initiatives for trial-specific patient recruitment and retention efforts for all clinical studies during study start-up. Develop recruitment and retention plan for all active studies, outlining planned strategies, risks, and solutions
• Identify and evaluate recruitment vendors that offer innovative solutions or approaches and oversee the selection and oversight in collaboration with the clinical team
• Establish application of best practices and lessons learned across all clinical studies
• Track, analyze, and present data from central recruitment campaigns. Provide forecasted recruitment metrics and ROI when presenting proposed central campaign budget to clinical study teams
• Liaise with clinical sites to evaluate site-specific recruitment initiatives and determine the potential, ROI, along with clinical team
• Initiate recruitment and retention knowledge sharing opportunities across cross-functional teams
• Provide mentorship to direct reports, conduct performance reviews, and assist with goal setting
• Maintain oversight of the Clinical Trial Recruitment Team, delegating studies to team members
• Identify potential areas of inefficiencies and implement process improvements
• Own the revision and/or development process of applicable SOPs and Work Instructions
• Track interactions with site study teams, alerting the clinical team of successes and potential risks
• Participate in Booster Visits to drive recruitment and retention discussions, as applicable
• Develop and manage the recruitment and retention budget for new clinical studies, maintain budget oversight on all clinical studies
• Meet with the cross-departmental team leads to discuss successes, areas of improvement, and team building opportunities
• Collaborate with Corporate Communications, Patient Advocacy, and/or Legal to identify potential synergies across departments to drive clinical recruitment strategies; develop and trademark study logos and brands, as appropriate; and proactively survey competitive landscape that may impact clinical trial recruitment
• Create standardized recruitment and retention processes that apply to study start-up, active studies, and study close-out