Clinical trial Officer H/F/X

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Job Description: Segment : Royal Canin Contract : Permanent (CDI) Location : Aimargues, proche de Montpellier There is an exciting opportunity to join the R&D team within the clinical trial and PLM function as the clinical trial officer (see comments on job title) to support Royal Canin to become a Health through Nutrition Company, R&D team has an ambition : Step change the longevity and quality of life of cats and dogs ​by offering personalized, proactive, predictive and participatory health through nutrition solutions. The Clinical Trials Officer will contribute to this R&D ambition by creating scientific evidence for stronger communication and claims for RC products in the market (post launch, post QUEST). She/he is an essential actor in the premiumization of our portfolio in the markets. The scope of the role is global across the entire portfolio of Royal Canin. The main focus is on post launch clinical trial with an expertize in managing external clinical trial. What are we looking for ? - Master's degree (e.g. Food Science, Food Industry, B+5) - Fluent in English - Person has experienced in clinical trials, dealing with the uncertainty of change and comfortable with complex projects context - Experience in managing multi-stakeholder projects in changing environment - Innovation, R&D, Markets/marketing collaboration - External partnership management What are your key responsibilities ? Support the Clinical Studies and PLM Sr. Manager in the creation and alignment of the global plans for clinical studies and the execution Manage processes and drive continuous improvement of ways-of-working Understand product performance, business opportunity from improved communication/claims and collaborate to define success for clinical studies Take ownership of aligned plans for clinical trials in our markets, drive execution, monitoring and reporting on the progress. Execute Clinical Studies in the regions/markets Collaborate with local and regional resources to execute clinical studies Provide and/or validate the protocols for the clinical studies Oversea the clinical studies and ensure compliance with internal and external requirements as well as application of best practices Review, analyze and validate data from clinical trials. Confirm statistical relevance and scientific evidence. Communicate & document results Take ownership of all data from clinical trials, process, document, arrange and store to continuously build a stronger data-base to be leveraged for future use. Create and continuously improve our capabilities for clinical studies Understand operational needs for clincal studies in collaboration with professionals and owners or other potential targets Identify opportunities for methodology, tools & systems to enhance our capacity, quality or speed of clinical trials Collaborate in the briefing for the development of tools & systems and initiate the creation, follow the creation and validate the outcome Consolidate all data from clinical trials for future use in R&D, RC, PetCare or with external partners What can you expect from Mars ? You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office! You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs! You will evolve in the heart of an innovative production plant that will challenge you, on a daily basis Royal Canin's CSR commitments, to build a better world for tomorrow: Since 2015, no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.