Team Leader (Player/Manager) Clinical Development Liaison (CDL) – Neuromuscular Diseases - Germany

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Team Leader (Player/Manager) Clinical Development Liaison (CDL) – Neuromuscular Diseases

Business Unit : Field Operations

Reports to: Program Director, Medical, Amplity

Location: Germany

Territory: Germany and some other countries in Europe

Role Type: Individual Contributor with Leadership Responsibilities (Player-Coach)

About the Role

Amplity is partnering with an innovative global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing transformative therapies for patients living with rare and neuromuscular diseases.

We are seeking an experienced Team Leader Clinical Development Liaison (CDL) to support and drive clinical development activities across Germany. This is a strategic field-based role combining scientific leadership, stakeholder engagement, and operational support for clinical trial execution.

As a Clinical Development Liaison, you will serve as a key scientific partner to investigators, study sites, and internal stakeholders, supporting study start-up, patient identification, enrollment strategies, and study conduct. In addition, as a Player-Coach, you will provide mentorship, guidance, and leadership to fellow CDL team members, helping drive consistency, best practices, and operational excellence across the region.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the development of innovative therapies for patients with serious neuromuscular diseases while collaborating with a highly experienced international Clinical Development team.

Purpose of role

The role of Team Leader (Player/Manager) is a hybrid role combining CDL activities with leadership of a small number of CDLs.

The Clinical Development Liaison (CDL) is responsible for establishing a respected and valued presence for our client with researchers and opinion leaders working in a specific therapeutic area.  They will engage in fair balanced scientific exchange and respond to requests for information about products and diseases of interest with key stakeholders.  Through a thorough understanding of national and regional experts, they will gain insight into treatment patterns and trends that will be shared internally to shape strategy.

The role is also the field-based leader and key contributor/coordinator to the overall remit of the client’s Medical Affairs organisation for the Amplity Medical team. This position is responsible for leading and coordinating operational requirements of the Amplity team to support the client’s Medical Affairs business.

The specific deliverables being managed can vary and is defined in the contract Amplity holds with the client organisation.

CDL Responsibilities

Education and Engagement

• Educate on science, our client, pipeline, trials, disease

• Assist Clinical Ad-Board coordination and execution for studies

• Assist and attend National and International Meetings

• Attend and support Patient Advocacy with sponsored events

Study Start-Up

• Identify KOLs and create a working network for trials

• Serve as company’s ambassador for early phase studies

• Boots on the ground to support scientific and operational aspects of trials

Patient Recruitment and Enrollment

• Support sites during study conduct with focus on site-start-up and patient enrollment

• Partner with PIs and internal stakeholders to drive patient accrual

• Support sites with creation of referral networks

• Support identification of patients & referral networks

Study Conducts

• Coordination of discussions / visits with sites across Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, CROs and other APLS individuals

• Provide stakeholders with insights from interactions with Investigators

• Email updates post-communication to internal (& CRO) stakeholders about outcomes of discussions

• Handover of interest / knowledge about publication interest / pub planning or potential investigator Initiated Trials (IITs)

Compliance

• Operate in a highly ethical manner and comply with all laws, regulations and policies.

• Complete mandatory training in assigned timelines upon hire as well as when new policies, SOP’s, guidance are issued

Team Leader Responsibilities

• Lead/coordinate the activities of small teams or individual field CDLs

• Act as single point of contact (SPoC) to coordinate input e.g. insights, reports etc. into single regional view to streamline communication with client project lead

• Work with Amplity leadership to input and set team/individual objectives & KPIs in line with client Medical Affairs strategic aims

• Support Amplity leadership to ensure the team’s performance and alignment with the client’s field Medical Affairs objectives

• Act as SPoC for client liaison with 3rd party vendors, as appropriate e.g. CRO

• Support the recruitment process when needed (interviewing, assessment centre participation, closing of the process with future team members) in a professional and compliant way with Amplity leadership

• Support the on-boarding of new ream members

Key accountabilities

Clients – External/Internal

• Proactively manage relationship with assigned contacts in client organisations; be “the true partner”

• Develop and maintain positive relationships with relevant stakeholders in client organisation.

• Role model Amplity values and represent our brand, demonstrating sound judgment and integrity in all aspects of the role

• Monitor project status/changes and develop solutions to address arising issues by engaging the Director, Medical, People (HR) Team, Finance Manager and Account Director on issues that may impact revenue, client expectations or satisfaction and issues related to public perception of client organisation or its products

• Stay up to date on the industry and trends developing

• Use industry knowledge and news to identify new potential new opportunities

• Assist as needed with wide team on ad-hoc duties as required and as appropriate to the role

• Collaborate and meet regularly with colleagues and client as appropriate

• Share best practice and feedback to drive improved business performance internally

• Provide input to help shape business strategy, be the ‘voice of the field-based team’ and an advocate for their role and their contribution towards business and client success

• Gain engagement and support from all those involved in Client projects to deliver exceptional quality to exceed Client expectations

People

With leadership support

• Liaise with Talent Acquisition (TA) team to refine and finalise candidate search criteria and collaborate regularly during recruitment process, providing feedback where appropriate

• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with relevant key stakeholders in the client organisation and communicate clearly and frequently with Amplity leadership

• Be the ‘voice of the field-based teams’ within Amplity to ensure resources are aligned to the support their needs

• Conduct second stage interviews, co-ordinate client ‘Meet and Greet’ calls or meetings

• Work in collaboration with Project Managers to plan and implement assessment centres, ensuring full attendance and make final candidate selections

• Work in collaboration with HR and project management to facilitate induction and onboarding for new starters in collaboration with relevant departments

• Ensure relevant objectives and plans are in place to successfully manage end of probation discussions

• Translate programme/project requirements into operational task and Key Performance Indicators

• (KPIs) for successful execution of contracted deliverables

• Set expectations with team aro