Senior Director, Research Compliance

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Defines overarching strategy and gains buy-in from key stakeholders and leaders to ensure implementation of updated policies, procedures, processes, and guidelines to ensure alignment and implementation across study sites, teams, departments, and regions. Spearheads organization-wide changes to processes, systems, and workflows, drives operational excellence across KP, and influences and coordinates key stakeholders and leaders to adopt operational improvements and best practices.

Collaborates across the organization to implement and drive comprehensive post‑approval monitoring initiatives and ensures alignment across internal and external stakeholders. Represents KP and serves as a liaison with regulatory and/or compliance agencies, accrediting bodies, and funding agencies during deliberations, audits, and conversations and documents regulatory and/or compliance decisions. Ensures alignment of short‑ and long‑term education and training goals and objectives with overarching organizational strategy.

Gains buy-in and support from key stakeholders and leaders to implement and drive education and training program improvement initiatives across local, regional, and/or national teams.

• Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent;
  
  stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross‑functional resource plans with business objectives.
  
  Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross‑functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making;
  
  sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject‑matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership;
  
  provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy.
• Establishes and maintains research policy by: championing a comprehensive strategy for and empowering staff and stakeholders to remain up‑to‑date on federal, state, and local regulations, ethical issues, and organizational policies; aligning key stakeholders and leaders on enacted and emerging changes and their implications and establishing processes to drive the adoption of broad policy updates across local, regional, and/or national teams; and defining overarching strategy and gaining buy‑in from key stakeholders and leaders to ensure implementation of updated policies, procedures, processes, and guidelines across study sites, teams, departments, and regions.
• Supports ongoing quality monitoring…