Manager, Patient Recruitment

Patient Recruitment Manager / Feasibility Manager - remote - Bulgaria

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 Manager, Patient Recruitment to join our diverse and dynamic FSP team in Bulgaria. In this role you will be responsible for partnering with study teams to enable the predictable delivery of sponsor’s portfolio by providing assessments of program and protocol feasibility, recruitment enrollment assumptions, and site strategy plans.

You will provide the study team with scenario planning to inform and finalize an optimized country, site and enrollment study enrollment plan.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Provide a country and site feasibility strategy that includes a list of proposed countries and sites to be targeted during site feasibility/selection, enrollment scenarios, and protocol optimization strategies.  

• Support study team enrollment to assess future changes to that strategy through the completion of participant recruitment

• Implementing processes related to country & site intelligence and provide continuity

• Introduces opportunities for protocol optimization by leveraging real world data, investigator insights, patient insights, protocol simulations, and coordinates with relevant functions to incorporate these insights in study assumptions. 

• Support the build of the investigator database, collection of information supporting the definition of the ideal site for a study, identification of suitable sites for a study, and coordinate global efforts for site intelligence

• Oversight of both Country and Site Feasibility outreach and engagement, lead response reviews with appropriate study team members, and provide strategic input into team decision making

• Partners with study teams to improve overall study start up and recruitment cycle time metrics.

• Operational responsibility for delivering to agreed set of KPIs for assigned protocols.

• Influences alignment of business strategies that promote the widespread implementation of suitable clinical trial technologies

Your Profile:

• University degree & 7 years relevant experience or PhD / MD and 3 years relevant experience

• Knowledge of Drug development, a thorough understanding of the processes associated with global country and site feasibility, clinical study start-up and business operations

• Experience in clinical research, including clinical trial conduct, knowledge of GCP and a good understanding of the processes associated with study/project management, monitoring, clinical and regulatory operations

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Effective presentation and facilitation skills.

• Well-developed strategic planning, observation, analytical operational execution and problem-solving skills

• Strong business consultancy skills, including ability to persuade, negotiate, and moderate conflict

• Ability to multitask under tight deadlines on several projects with specific and unique requirements.

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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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