Associate Director, Study Feasibility
Posted Sep 11, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
This role designs and facilitates cross-functional global strategy discussions with twenty or more senior people in the room. Walk me through how you run a meeting like that.
What they are checking: Whether they can run a productive strategy discussion with twenty senior people, which this role must do regularly by design.
You'd drive analytical insights and recruitment planning through people who don't report to you. How do you do that?
What they are checking: Whether they can drive recruitment planning through people who do not report to them, which is how matrix roles succeed.
Large-scale studies fail differently from small ones. What have you seen go wrong at scale?
What they are checking: Whether they have seen how large global studies fail, since problems at scale differ from those in small trials.
What would you do
A study team is committed to a design you believe will miss its enrolment target. How do you handle that?
What they are checking: Whether they will tell a committed study team their design will miss enrollment, clearly and early, while it can still change.
How do you balance the countries that recruit fastest against the ones a regulator will want to see?
What they are checking: Whether they balance fast-recruiting countries against the populations regulators expect to see, so the trial supports approval where it matters.
This is based at Mettawa within clinical development operations. What would you want to know about the portfolio before you took it?
What they are checking: Whether they ask about the portfolio and workload before accepting, which shows realistic judgment about what the role demands.
About the work
How do you assess whether a phase three protocol design can realistically recruit?
What they are checking: Whether they can test a phase three protocol against real recruitment data, before the company commits to a plan that will fail.
How do you decide which countries and sites go into a large global trial?
What they are checking: Whether they choose countries and sites on evidence like patient availability and site performance, rather than habit or past relationships.
What data do you rely on for a recruitment forecast, and where does it mislead people?
What they are checking: Whether they understand where recruitment data misleads, such as optimistic site estimates, so forecasts are not built on false confidence.
How do you build a recruitment plan you'd still defend a year into the study?
What they are checking: Whether they build recruitment plans they would defend months later, rather than optimistic estimates that unravel once the study starts.
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