Evidence Generation Specialist (Saudi National)

Role overview

Study execution and oversight

• Lead approved evidence-generation studies and prepare plans with timelines, milestones, budgets, and forecasts.
• Track study progress, recruitment, risks, and mitigation; escalate critical issues and provide monthly study-health updates.
• Maintain complete, compliant, inspection-ready study master files and support audits and inspections.
• Coordinate investigator engagement, site identification and activation, study start-up, issue resolution, and close-out.

Vendor and publication management

• Manage CRO and vendor selection, onboarding, KPIs, governance meetings, deliverables, quality, contracts, purchase orders, and financial reconciliation.
• Own affiliate publication planning and strategy; manage publication vendors and medical writers.
• Coordinate manuscript and abstract development and submission; ensure compliance and approvals, including for encore poster presentations.

Evidence dissemination and collaboration

• Coordinate evidence dissemination across Medical, Market Access, and Commercial teams; maintain publication trackers, budgets, and impact metrics.
• Collaborate with Medical, Market Access, Commercial, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, Clinical Operations, and other relevant functions.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Public Health, Healthcare Sciences, or a related healthcare discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in Clinical Research Operations and/or Evidence Generation.
• Experience in study start-up, execution, monitoring, close-out, vendor management, investigator/site engagement, and budget tracking.
• Relevant experience may include CRC, CRA, CPL, RWE Lead, or clinical/research operations or management roles.
• A master's degree in Clinical Research, Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Economics, or a related field is a plus.

Scientific and technical competencies

• Understanding of clinical research methodologies and study management; RWE, observational studies, registries, and non-interventional research.
• Understanding of ICH-GCP principles, SFDA regulations, ethics committee requirements, audit readiness, and scientific publications.
• Preferred: evidence-gap identification, evidence strategy, concept sheets, protocol writing/review, study design, scientific writing, and critical appraisal.
• Fluent in English and Arabic; proficient in Microsoft Office and project/document tracking tools.

Skills

• Strong project management and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple stakeholders, studies, timelines, budgets, and vendors simultaneously.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.

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