As a Local Trial Manager (LTM) you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence. Working at the core of clinical research, you’ll be exposed to cutting-edge protocols and experience a dedicated partnership with your team like never before.
As a LTM you will be tthe primary point of contact to lead, manage and co-ordinate the conduct of clinical trials from study start-up to close out at a country level in accordance with ICH-GCP and other applicable local regulation. You will maintain the quality and scientific integrity of clinical trials at a country level and collaborate with cross functional internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely execution, budget execution of clinical trial deliverables within the country.
Maintains expert country, site and protocol knowledge to support sites with questions as well as build strong site relationships.
Partners with global, local country teams and study team to provide high level country strategy, drive study progress and country level study delivery.
Accountable for study deliverables and drives key decisions within set country.
What you will be doing:
- Planning, management, and oversight of clinical study execution in accordance with the global program strategy, through leadership of the cross-functional Local Study Team (LST).
- Supports country-level operational planning and accountable for site selection within assigned country/-ies.
- Contributes and develops to program/study-specific materials – e.g., monitoring plan, study specific training documents.
- Supports and contributes to Clinical Study Teams (CSTs) / Trial Management Teams (TMTs) as applicable, agenda driven, present at meetings.
- Communicates country status (including timelines and deliverables) to key stakeholders (e.g., Global Clinical Managers [GCM], Program Managers, CST or TMT, Development Operations Manager [DOM] etc) with oversight as required and ensures updates to relevant system
- Accountable for site-level goal setting and study-specific deliverables for clinical sites within their country/-ies.
- Contributes to, deliver and/or lead CRA, Investigator and Study Coordinator training
- Provides oversight and monitoring of applicable vendor activities e.g., laboratories and equipment provisioning
- Engages with local cluster team and local functions from a study perspective
- Provides country level input into the Country Operational Plan (COP) and partner with the DFM through feasibility and with the GCMs to ensure local delivery of the study
- Responsible for approval of Baseline and Revised Enrolment Plans (Country Level).
- Contributes to the study-level forecast for investigational product, support study level accountability and reconciliation across assigned countries, management of ELE (enrolment long-range estimates) process.
- Monitors the execution of the clinical study against timelines, deliverables, and budget for that country.
- Translates global start up requirements into local country targets
- Monitors country enrolment and retention and act on deviations from plan. Identify barriers to enrolment and support recruitment and retention strategic solutions.
- Monitors and acts upon data flow metrics - review, trend identification and analysis, with targeted follow up where appropriate.
- Monitors and reviews country and study trends.
- Reviews Monitoring Visit Reports.
- Identifies and facilitates resolution of cross-functional study-specific issues.
- Provides updates regarding the study budget and obtains approval for budget deviations for clinical sites (outside of range).
- Escalates any issues related to delivery, timelines, or budget to GCMs (or TMT le ad if appropriate).
- Escalates CRA performance issues to applicable Clinical Trial Oversight Manager.
- Conducts on-site quality visits with CRAs where/when appropriate and supports the maintenance of Amgen investigator site relationships.
- Executes regulatory agency inspection readiness activities (e.g., TMF review, story board generation).
- Supports internal audit and inspection activities and contributes to CAPAs, including leading resolution of issues when appropriate e.g., vendor management.
- Participates in cross-functional task forces/process improvement groups
- Assigns and oversees deliverables of study support staff e.g., Study Management Associate, ASM/SASM (Snr./Assc. Study management) and continually reviews country level risk mitigation to ensure study delivers to plan.
- Collaborates with local teams to ensure country level study delivery is aligned with global expectations.
- Coordinates of the site contracting, budgeting, insurance and payment process by overseeing local support roles
- Identifies risk, implementing risk mitigation strategies, and resolving issues at a country/site level, as well as informing the CST / TMT, LST and local teams of risks associated with delivery in a proactive, timely and solution orientated manner. Contribute to study-level risk assessments.
- Leads and continually reviews country level risk mitigation activities to ensure study delivery to plan.
- Maintains relevant therapeutic knowledge.
You are:
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) with 2-3 years’ clinical trial project management experience
- Minimum 7 years’ work experience in life sciences or medically related field, including 4 years of biopharmaceutical clinical research experience obtained working on clinical trials in a biotech, pharmaceutical or CRO company
- Experience in oversight of external vendors (e.g., CROs, central labs, imaging vendors, etc.)
- Must be a local/country expert with identifiable project management experience locally
- Builds strong site relationships as well as other local relationships to ensure end to end study delivery is met
- Fluent in English, both written and oral, and local language (Spanish)
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 maximise savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised 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, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others
Visit our careers website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits
At ICON, diversity, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative which helps us better serve our people, patients, customers, and our communities. We're proud of our diverse workforce and the work we’ve done to become a more inclusive organisation. 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 through the form below.
https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations
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.
