International Clinical Operations Lead – France

Why Join Us?

At Excelya, we combine passion for science with enthusiasm for teamwork to redefine excellence in healthcare.

Here’s what makes us unique—

We are a young, ambitious health company representing 900 Excelyates, driven to become Europe’s leading mid-size CRO with the best employee experience. Our one-stop provider service model—offering full-service, functional service provider, and consulting—enables you to evolve through diverse projects. Working alongside preeminent experts, you will help improve scientific, operational, and human knowledge to enhance the patient’s journey.

Excelling with care means benefiting from an environment that values your natural talents, pushes boundaries with audacity, and nurtures your potential, allowing you to contribute fully to our shared mission.

About the Job

Join Excelya, where Audacity, Care, and Energy define who we are and how we work. We believe in creating bold solutions and fostering an inclusive environment where collaboration and individual growth go hand in hand.

This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic, ambitious team in Clinical Operations. You will play a critical part in driving innovation and making an impact in the clinical research space, while enjoying a stimulating professional environment that encourages personal and intellectual growth.

Main Responsibilities

• Acts as the main liaison between international study teams and country-level clinical operations, consolidating and communicating critical updates.

• Oversees local Clinical Operations Project Managers (COPMs), ensuring timely, budget-compliant, and high-quality execution of trial activities.

• Participates in study budget development, trains local teams on budget assumptions, and manages local cost tracking and reporting.

• Leads feasibility assessments across countries and sites, analyzes feedback, and proposes optimized study rollout strategies.

• Develops and implements the study Monitoring Plan in collaboration with COPMs and the Study Team Leader.

• Contributes to defining patient recruitment and retention strategies; monitors enrollment and supports action planning when needed.

• Organizes and provides study-specific training to internal teams and investigators; ensures readiness and quality of Investigator Meetings.

• Drafts, reviews, and maintains study documentation, ensuring completeness in the Trial Master File throughout the study lifecycle.

• Participates in vendor oversight and management (CROs, central labs, service providers), ensuring timely deployment of tools, materials, and logistics.

• Detects and escalates study quality issues, supports root cause analysis, and leads implementation of corrective/preventive actions (CAPA, protocol deviations, etc.).