Strategic Resourcing | Another Way To Help Sponsors

Staffing solutions to accelerate clinical development milestones and support study success

Biopharmaceutical organizations face ever-greater pressures for early success. A crowded field of clinical trials begins each year, and most do not survive the proof-of-concept rigors of the early phases. Uncertain results and unpredictable costs create a volatile environment. Every biopharm executive values a partner who can limit the overall risk of failure and improve the chance of reaching commercial success.

Finding the right partner capable of creating a strong team to deliver results remains challenging. It is essential that new projects launch under optimum conditions. Experienced life sciences leaders know that a carefully constructed team can contribute greatly to a successful outcome. Within the modern competitive landscape, a customized scalable resource solution— designed correctly and deployed in a collaborative partnership— can be critical to your success.

Veristat recently announced the formalization of its Strategic Resourcing solution to offer clients the delivery of clinical development and regulatory expertise options fully tailored to their needs. Clients now have access to difficult-to-find experts dedicated to a specific requirement or function to meet their objectives and timelines.

A pipeline of discipline-specific expertise is available and ready to seamlessly integrate into dynamic clinical environments. Our resources can support work across many disciplines including biostatistics, programming and data management, regulatory consulting, clinical operations including clinical monitoring, project management, site management, as well as medical affairs/safety, medical/regulatory writing, and pharmacovigilance.

Meeting Your Specific Challenges with Options

As a scientific-minded global clinical research organization (CRO) in our 27th year, we have aggregated significant and useful experience collaborating with sponsors and providing the operational, scientific, functional, and/or therapeutic expertise required to conduct their clinical trial from start to finish. Given this, we possess a valuable perspective on the rapidly changing talent sourcing landscape. Certain clients may need strategic resourcing to manage a specific challenge. Others may require a full- or functional service CRO solution. No matter the engagement model, there are several considerations that we believe foster quality standards likely to promote increased return on a sponsors’ investment, and include:

Confidence and trust: A willingness to identify complex needs quickly and find solutions; a partnership that anticipates future requirements.

Consistent collaboration: Regular interactions to identify, understand and resolve your project challenges.

Discipline: Rigorous, repeatable processes always directed toward solutions.

Transparency: Every action is clear and visible to stakeholders.

Flexibility: The commitment and work ethic to anticipate and adapt to your evolving needs.

Key Questions to Ask

Specific to Strategic Resourcing, we have identified some additional factors that should be part of your considerations before agreeing to a partnership. Each point should be contemplated within the context of your specific needs.

Level of involvement: To what extent will you be involved in identifying talent? Will you want to review CVs and resumes in detail? Or is the preference to allow the CRO to match job roles with professional resources? Make this decision early.

Your place or theirs: What are the preferences regarding work location, technology infrastructure, and standard operating procedures? Critical points to consider.

Measurement: How will performance be reported and measured? Who will be the keeper of key metrics? Who will report this data? How often? How will it be communicated?

Task management: Who manages the day-to-day tasks? Who monitors and interprets results? How is the work plan developed and communicated? You will need a good plan to implement this.

Contract details: How will milestones be established and deliverables defined? Who will monitor and evaluate the quality of the results? What special considerations are required concerning billable hours or deliverables? How will the billing be organized?

Sponsors expect their partners to continually improve upon the ways in which they can help them achieve true scientific progress delivered with process agility. Our Strategic Resourcing option does just that. Before signing your next contract, talk to Veristat. We will help maximize your chances of commercial success.

For more information, visit https://www.veristat.com/services/strategic-resourcing