PCMG CONNECT launched a new PCMG initiative to recognise excellence in outsourcing. This is an opportunity to raise the status of our speciality by sharing examples at three levels of experience:

• Individual Award for a newcomer (up to two years) to Clinical Development Outsourcing. There’s no one pathway to becoming an outsourcing specialist but there is a common goal to ‘DO THE RIGHT THING IN THE RIGHT WAY AT THE RIGHT TIME in order to ensure clinical trial success. New talent and new ideas should be supported and recognised. Show your friends and colleagues across the industry how your fresh perspective can drive results.
• Individual Award (two years+ in OS) for Excellence in Clinical Development Outsourcing. No matter what level of seniority and experience, the opportunity to learn and adapt to an ever-changing outsourcing environment makes our speciality, well… special! PCMG wants anyone beyond two years’ experience in the role to share an example where they have made a difference that others can learn from to advance our collective skillbase
• Partnership Team Awards (Sponsor AND Supplier). There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM but PCMG has an ‘eye’ for recognising how a collective effort makes all the difference in outsourcing project outcomes. Whether it be harnessing novel technology or going back to the basics of good communication, everyone has to be pulling in the same direction. Show us how it can be done!

MEMBERS can ask the experts – your outsourcing colleagues across the community

• How do you assess CRO compliance?
• I need to find a Bioanalytical Consultant for method validation work
• Is anyone using resourcing algorithms vs budgetging project management at task level?
• What questions would you use in the selection of Virtual Investigator Meeting suppliers?

This is just a sample of the range of situations that outsourcing managers ask our community for guidance on. We can’t guarantee there’s an answer for all of them but we can ask and extend your potential knowledge base way beyond the boundaries of your own company. Oh, just to be clear, any questions are vetted by at least two members of the Committee to ensure they don’t encourage breach of competition or confidentiality regulations and standards as well as being valid points of interest!

We rely on our members giving direction to our activities to provide output that can be used in practice. Any MEMBER can propose leading a project that can draw on support and coordination from the PCMG Committee and the association’s resources e.g.

• The PCMG Legal and Contracts Group (PLeDGe)
• The PCMG Special Project Team for Academic Research Organisation outsourcing collaboration
• The PCMG Quality Management in Outsourcing Group

There are plenty of events out there but none come close to the content or value of PCMG

Workshops

PCMG workshops develop key concepts in outsourcing into practice. Whether F2F or online, the program is determined by PCMG Committee Members to address current topics of interest and practical use. PCMG brings in experts specialised in the subject area from across and outside industry to provide a breadth of perspective that can’t be gained from in-house training and established processes. This is an opportunity for MEMBERS to participate and develop new knowledge to share and implement in the workplace.

This is also an opportunity for MEMBERS to drive topics of value in their own situation. Harness PCMG’s resource to create a project for your own personal development as a joint lead of a Workshop Team!

PCMG LIVE Online Interactive Forums

June 2020 saw PCMG set the standard for online events. In the course of three days, new content, new speakers and a new format that brought delegates together to share and interact with the expert guidance of the PCMG event organisation, filling a much-needed gap for sharing and meeting friends and colleagues from sponsors and suppliers. December 2020 is the start of a program of short interactive online forums that will use the experience of PCMG LIVE in short debate and interactive discussion for MEMBERS to join spirited exploration of current topics relevant to outsourcing practice. Stay current, watch out for updates.

PCMG’s Famous Annual Conference

There’s nothing comparable in outsourcing conferences. PCMG leads the field for the best event of the year to meet and share news and ideas, catch up with old contacts and make new ones across the broad range of sponsors and suppliers who attend this unique event. MEMBERS delegate fee is included in the annual membership fee. Regular attendees value the focus provided to communicate openly, with no distraction of multiple streams or exhibition hall. PCMG carefully selects venues that are different and stimulating yet meet budget sensibilities. No paid podiums for CROs, but as members of the PCMG Conference Steering Committee they bring in knowledge and perspective that ensures there is balanced content, debate, novel interaction forums and challenge to give delegates relevant and valid information to improve excellence in outsourcing.  Who can forget ‘Bid Defence Nighmares’, Universally Challenged’ experience and speakers from inside and also outside industry to stimulate new ideas, coming from ‘Olympics Organisational Experience’ to ‘Working with Nelson Mandela’.

The PCMG BREAKFAST BUFFET

A regular all-you-can-eat online discussion of hot, toasty topics led by PCMG Committee and shared with the membership. A great way to start the day and an ideal opportunity to make up for the reduction in face-to-face informal chat at work and conferences.

Can’t make the date?……DELEGATE!

MEMBERS can delegate their membership place at any PCMG event to a work colleague. Whether it’s availability or a topic more suitable for someone in your organisation PCMG offers this very special chance to optimise the value of your annual fee.

Where do Outsourcing specialists come from? Nobody knows……

Which is one reason that PCMG provides outsourcing training for those new to the role, needing a refresher or, for those already well versed in the essentials, an opportunity to substanially extend that knowledge and progress their personal development towards leadership in outsourcing.

This is so much more than just training, Led by a team of PCMG outsourcing experts who have gained expertise from many years in the field, originally F2F and now online, this is real development of knowledge into skills that cover the elements that can be encountered in the broad outsourcing role, whether in Pharma or Biotech. Interactive sessions, not just lectures, develop and check the understanding of principles vital to outsourcing effectiveness. Open to all, MEMBERS benefit from a substantial discount to these intensive, practice-based sessions including:Strategies, suppliers and sourcing approaches, contract models, legal aspects and risk management, outsourcing process, financial considerations and much more….

Reach out to the largest global outsourcing network with no horrendously costly agency fee. Your membership enables your company to post outsourcing and related specialist vacancies on the PCMG website at no extra cost!

PCMG Annual Membership – Unbeatable Value for training, current awareness, networking, information base and personal development. All under one roof!