Manager, Feasibility and Site Activation - Contracts

Manager, FSA

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.

What You Will Do

Your focus will be on leading and developing Site Contracts Lead (SCL) teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality site contracting and start-up activities, resolving escalated issues, and driving team capability and performance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and managing Site Contracts Lead (SCL) teams to deliver strong end-to-end site contracting activities, including budget and contract negotiation, in line with study timelines and quality expectations.

• Providing strategic oversight of site contracting strategy set up, project risk mitigation, client management and on time contracts delivery in line with ICON/Sponsor and local requirements and quality..

• Acting as the primary escalation point for complex contractual or budgetary issues, ensuring timely resolution while balancing sponsor and site expectations.

• Overseeing contracting forecasts, assumptions, and risks, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to develop mitigation strategies and ensure predictable delivery.

• Collaborating closely with Legal, Operations, and Business Development teams to support proposals, bid defenses, and customer interactions with robust contracting expertise.

• Monitoring contracting performance metrics (e.g., cycle times, negotiation timelines, execution rates), identifying trends, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

• Ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance across contracting processes, including adherence to SOPs, templates, and regulatory requirements.

• Coaching, mentoring, and developing SCL team members, fostering a culture of accountability, high performance, and collaboration.

Your Profile

You will bring strong expertise in site contracting and negotiations, with demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage competing priorities, and drive operational excellence.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, healthcare, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Significant experience in clinical research with a strong focus on site contracts, budget negotiation, and study start-up.

• Proven experience in leading and developing teams in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Strong analytical and planning skills, with the ability to interpret operational data and contracting metrics.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including customer-facing experience.

• Continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on quality, efficiency, and delivery predictability.

• Willingness to travel as required (approximately 15%).

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.

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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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