Clinical Trial Manager

Clinical Trial Manager

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

We are currently seeking a Clinical Trial Manager to join our diverse and dynamic team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and successful completion of clinical trials, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and regulatory guidelines.

As a leader in our research department, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage site relationships, and provide strategic guidance to drive the successful delivery of clinical trial outcomes.

What you will be doing

• Plan and manage all aspects of clinical trials, ensuring adherence to timelines, budget, and quality standards.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and implement clinical trial protocols and procedures.

• Build and manage strong relationships with trial investigators and stakeholders.

• Ensure all trials are conducted in compliance with local, national, and international regulations and ethical guidelines.

• Problem-solve and make critical decisions regarding trial design, vendor selection, and risk management.

• Prepares or contributes to high level budget estimate in response to Request for Service’s followed by detailed budget proposal. Ensures overall contract management, including review
  and approval of external service provider (ESP) contracts, change orders and ensures services are delivered per contract. 

• Act as primary company contact for assigned trial at the country level and ensures local/country team is tracking project progress against planned timelines and monitors patient recruitment rate
  to ensure that target enrollment will be met across the allocated countries.

• Drive study compliance by maintaining and updating trial management systems, using study tools and management reports available to analyze trial progress. Participates in preparation for and
  conduct of Health Authority (HA) inspections and internal Quality Assurance audits.

• Contributes to site level recruitment strategy and contingency planning and implementation in partnership with other functional areas to achieve clinical research target.

• Delivers competent vendor management at the country level to support the study and may submit requests for vendor services and support vendor selection.

• Contributes to patient understanding of protocol and patient safety by contributing to the review of country specific informed consent in accordance with procedural document/templates

Your Profile

• University degree in medicine, science, or equivalent combination of education & experience

• Demonstrated ability to drive the clinical deliverables of a study

• Subject matter expertise in the designated therapeutic area

• Minimum of 5 years of clinical research experience in the pharmaceutical industry or CRO. 

• Specific therapeutic area experience may be required depending on the position.

• Strong working knowledge of ICH-GCP, company standard operating procedures, local laws and regulations, assigned protocols and associated protocol specific procedures.

What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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