Director, TMF Operations
About the role
The Role:
Reporting to the Senior Director of Clinical Operations, the Director, TMF Operations leads Immunovant’s TMF transformation and ongoing TMF operations to deliver a governed, inspection-ready TMF operating model. The role will drive TMF strategy, quality, oversight, and inspection readiness, including TMF governance, a harmonized Sponsor TMF definition across systems and partners, and a CRO model that demonstrates sponsor oversight. The Director drives the shift to process-centric TMF management by embedding TMF outputs into core clinical processes, implementing risk-based oversight, and delivering KPIs and dashboards for completeness, timeliness, and risk. This role partners with Clinical Operations, Quality/Compliance, Regulatory, IT/eTMF, Alliance Management, and Procurement/Legal to ensure compliant processes, systems, training, and documentation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the TMF operating model, including strategy, governance, standards, and operating model to support portfolio
- Define and implement TMF processes, standards, and KPIs to promote consistency, quality, and compliance across studies and vendors utilizing a risk-based approach to ensure sponsor oversight
- Oversee TMF across all programs, ensuring alignment with ICH-GCP, TMF Reference Model, and global regulatory expectations
- Lead TMF oversight in an outsourced model, driving CRO/vendor accountability for TMF completeness, quality, and timeliness, including dashboards and governance reporting to senior leadership
- Establish and drive TMF health metrics, risk indicators, and escalation pathways across studies
- Serve as the TMF subject matter expert, guiding cross-functional teams, influencing best practices, supporting role-based training for sponsor and CRO teams, and monitoring adoption and uptake through metrics and governance
- Lead and support TMF-related activities for health authority inspections (FDA, EMA, and other regulatory agencies)
- Drive continuous inspection readiness by defining, implementing and improving the TMF/eTMF operating model and performance program
- Serve as TMF lead/SME for TMF-related inspections and QA audit activities
- Drive TMF inspection preparation, SME briefing, document retrieval, and response coordination including TMF demonstrations, evidence packages and remediation planning
- Lead or support remediation and CAPA development for TMF-related inspection findings
- Drive eTMF system strategy and governance, including system configuration, taxonomy, and metadata standards; lead cross system TMF artifact mapping and reconciliation across eTMF, CTMS, eDC, safety, regulatory and QMS to support trial reconstruction; vendor/system performance and optimization; partner with CBO Ops, IT and quality systems on validation and change control for eTMF and related systems, as applicable; oversight of enhancements, releases, and UAT
- Drive TMF quality at scale by establishing QC/QR frameworks and oversight models; driving effective TMF reconciliation practices across functions and vendors; identifying systemic gaps and implementing continuous improvement initiatives
- Provide leadership and oversight to TMF staff and/or vendors, including mentoring and capability building
- Partner cross-functionally with Clinical Operations, Study Teams, QA, Regulatory, and external partners to drive end-to-end TMF alignment