Manager, Study Feasibility
Posted Sep 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
The posting names identifying connections within and across therapeutic areas. Give me an example where something you learned in one area changed a decision in another.
What they are checking: Whether they connect lessons across therapeutic areas, since insight from one program often improves feasibility decisions in another.
Tell me about a continuous improvement project you led. What actually changed?
What they are checking: Whether their improvement work produced real, measurable change, rather than just launching initiatives that faded after the first meeting.
What would you do
A study team is attached to a design you think will not enroll. How do you handle that conversation?
What they are checking: Whether they can deliver an unwelcome enrollment assessment clearly and with evidence, because an unrealistic study design wastes years and money.
The posting says you escalate issues to the associate directors and directors. What would you escalate, and what would you handle yourself?
What they are checking: Whether they have sound judgment about what to escalate and what to own, which leaders rely on at the manager level.
Where does feasibility have to hold a line against a timeline that has already been promised?
What they are checking: Whether they will hold an independent view when a timeline has already been promised, since feasibility exists to tell the truth.
This is based at North Chicago within Clinical Development Operations. What would you want to know about the portfolio you'd cover before you took it?
What they are checking: Whether they would ask about the portfolio and workload before committing, which shows they plan realistically for the job.
About the work
This role advises study teams on design feasibility and on country and site selection. Walk me through how you assess whether a protocol can actually recruit.
What they are checking: The core method of feasibility work rather than a description of it
What data do you use to decide which countries and sites to include?
What they are checking: Named data sources rather than a general answer about landscape
You'd manage reporting of team portfolio deliverables and review metrics. Which metrics tell you a feasibility assessment was good, rather than just delivered?
What they are checking: Whether they measure the accuracy of feasibility work, not just how much was delivered, because a wrong forecast hurts the whole study.
How do you build a recruitment estimate you are willing to defend six months later?
What they are checking: Whether they build honest, defensible recruitment forecasts, because this job is ultimately judged on whether its estimates come true.
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