Senior Enrollment Specialist
Adams Clinical · United States · $50,000–$95,000 (stated in the posting)
Join Us in Shaping the Future of Clinical Research
Adams Clinical is a leading clinical trial site network committed to accelerating the development of life-changing medicines. Our mission is simple: deliver uncompromising data quality, safety, and diverse enrollment to advance healthcare. Our vision is to set the gold standard for clinical trial excellence. We believe our people make the difference. Guided by our core values—Scientific Rigor, Operational Excellence, Commitment to Sponsors and Participants, and Authentic Collaboration—we create an environment where meaningful work drives meaningful change.
At Adams Clinical, you’ll find:
- A culture of respect, transparency, and continuous improvement
- Opportunities for professional growth and learning
- A team dedicated to improving lives through innovation and integrity
If you’re passionate about making an impact in clinical research and want to be part of a collaborative, mission-driven organization, we’d love to have you on our team.
Position Overview
The Senior Enrollment Specialist serves as a strategic leader within the Enrollment department, driving enrollment performance across multiple clinical research sites and studies. This role combines direct enrollment expertise with operational leadership, data-driven decision-making, mentorship, and process improvement.
The Senior Enrollment Specialist is responsible for identifying enrollment barriers, optimizing candidate conversion strategies, supporting study launches, and partnering with site and organizational leadership to ensure screening and enrollment goals are achieved. This position acts as a subject matter expert and escalation resource for Enrollment Specialists while helping shape enrollment best practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Enrollment Strategy & Performance Management
- Partner with Enrollment Leadership to develop and execute enrollment strategies across multiple studies and sites.
- Monitor enrollment performance, screening conversion rates, and study launch metrics.
- Analyze enrollment funnel performance and identify opportunities to improve candidate progression.
- Develop recommendations to improve scheduling, screening attendance, retention, and enrollment outcomes.
- Identify risks to enrollment targets and implement corrective action plans.
- Support forecasting of screening volume and enrollment capacity.
- Assist leadership in prioritizing studies, sites, and recruitment initiatives.
Cross-Site Leadership
- Serve as the enrollment lead for assigned therapeutic areas, studies, or site groups.
- Coordinate enrollment efforts across multiple research sites.
- Facilitate communication between enrollment teams, site operations, recruitment, and clinical research staff.
- Lead enrollment readiness planning for new studies and study launches.
- Ensure enrollment workflows are standardized and consistently executed across sites.
Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
- Evaluate enrollment workflows and identify opportunities for efficiency improvements.
- Lead process improvement initiatives to reduce enrollment bottlenecks and improve candidate conversion.
- Develop and maintain enrollment procedures, workflows, and training materials.
- Monitor adherence to SOPs, regulatory requirements, and data quality standards.
- Partner with leadership to implement new technologies, reporting tools, and enrollment processes.
Data Analysis & Reporting
- Analyze enrollment, conversion, outreach, and screening metrics.
- Create and present performance reports and recommendations to leadership.
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) and identify trends impacting study success.
- Utilize CRM and clinical trial management systems to support decision-making.
- Present enrollment insights during leadership, operations, and cross-functional meetings.
People Leadership & Team Management
- Directly supervise and manage Enrollment Specialists, including workload allocation, performance management, coaching, and professional development.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and goal-setting discussions.
- Monitor individual and team enrollment metrics, providing feedback and corrective action plans as needed.
- Support hiring, onboarding, training, and retention of Enrollment team members.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the Enrollment team.
Candidate Experience & Enrollment Support
- Support high-priority enrollment activities when needed.
- Assist with challenging candidate cases and enrollment escalations.
- Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the enrollment process.
- Maintain compliance with privacy regulations and confidentiality requirements.
Qualifications
- Exceptional verbal and written communication, with real skill at building rapport and trust quickly by phone and text.
- Persistence and drive — you follow up, and you do not let a promising candidate go cold.
- Comfort being measured: this role has clear, visible targets and you will own your numbers.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills across many studies, sites, and candidates at once.
- Sound judgment and discretion handling sensitive health information.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and comfort learning CRM/clinical trial management platforms (e.g., Salesforce, CRIO).
- 2+ years in clinical research enrollment, patient recruitment, or a comparable conversion-focused role strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ownership of conversion, throughput, or pipeline metrics.
- Experience using data to diagnose performance problems and influence decisions.
- Track record of collaborating with and influencing leadership stakeholders across locations.
- Experience mentoring, training, or informally leading peers.
Pay: $50-95K salary commensurate with experience
- 401(k) matching
- Medical, Dental, & Vision insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
Adams Clinical is committed to being an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We focus on hiring and nurturing top talent. All employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline, and termination, are made based on the candidate's or employee's qualifications relevant to the position. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status.
In compliance with federal law, all individuals hired must, as a condition of employment, provide documentation verifying their identity and authorization to work in the United States and complete Form I-9 within the required timeframe. Adams Clinical participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility.