Director of Strategic Site Partnerships

Leapcure helps patients access clinical trial treatments, especially when current care options fall short. With over 1 million research hours saved, we're poised to make an even bigger global impact on healthcare.

We seek a driven, collaborative Director of Strategic Site Partnerships to build and expand Leapcure’s site partnership network, focusing specifically on developing strategic key opinion leader partnerships. This role is mission-critical for our overall operations and involves cross-functional collaboration across operations, product, sales, and marketing.

Major Responsibilities/Key Actions:

• Own the end-to-end site experience at Leapcure.
• Strategically manage and deepen relationships with top-tier clinical sites, focusing on long-term partnership and value creation.
• Develop and execute strategic initiatives that align with Leapcure’s long-term goals, leveraging relationships to enhance market position and influence in the healthcare sector.
• Proactively work with sites to resolve issues, answer questions, and manage requests.
• Improve processes related to site onboarding and management to create a better experience for sites.
• Determine sites that require special attention or prioritization from Operations to enable study outcomes and Leapcure strategic objectives.
• Own feedback from sites and implement this feedback alongside patient feedback as part of product development, operations, and site relationship strategy.
• Conduct behavioral analysis of all site staff/personnel to better understand indicators of site-level performance and partnerships. Act as the voice for the sites in determining company and study operations.
• Cultivate and develop strategic partnerships with site staff and leaders to enable Leapcure referrals and introductions to pharmaceutical companies.
• Establish a process to further develop site physicians as KOLs (key opinion leader) status through study support and networking/speaking opportunities
• Develop research naive physicians to be site principal investigators, through partnership management and learning.
• Travel to sites as needed to discuss Leapcure’s product, future partnerships, and build relationships with site staff.
• Analyze data and metrics for clinical research sites and aggregate/report these insights to key internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders in operations, sales, and marketing to communicate updates and tracking of key outcomes regarding sponsor introductions.
• Support with day-to-day operations with sites, such as onboarding, referral assignment, and referral follow-ups at sites.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of working directly with or at sites conducting clinical trials, physician working on research at sites preferred
• Proven strategic leadership in enterprise-level partnership development within the healthcare or clinical research sectors
• Proven ability to build partnership program from early stages within a growing unstructured startup environment
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Ability to use slides for storytelling and insights presentations
• Experience working with and managing expectations for enterprise clients and research physicians/principal investigators
• Proven experience and success in building and nurturing relationships
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Results-oriented mindset with a track record of driving successful outcomes in interactions
• Experience in developing and iterating on processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Demonstrated history of innovation and a willingness to experiment with new ideas and technology
• Experience working with clinical sites outside of the US is a plus

Additional Qualifications:

• Alignment with Leapcure’s values, particularly around curiosity and trust.
• Demonstrated ability and desire to work and excel in a fast-paced environment.
• Above all, we are looking for someone who will bring their unique flair to our organization. We value creativity and the ability to tackle tough challenges head-on. If you are driven to excel in a transformative role and eager to lead Leapcure’s partnerships to new heights, we would love to hear from you.