Senior Clinical Data Science Lead

Senior Clinical Data Science Lead

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 seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Clinical Data Science Lead to provide strategic oversight and execution of Clinical Data Management activities across one or more clinical trials.

In this role, you will ensure high standards of data integrity, quality, and compliance, collaborating with cross-functional and global stakeholders. You will play a critical role in supporting clinical trial delivery by managing data collection, review, and submission activities in alignment with program SOPs, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Manage and oversee data management activities across one or more clinical trials while ensuring alignment with study objectives.
• Ensure strict adherence to regulatory requirements, SOPs, work instructions, and established quality standards throughout the trial lifecycle.
• Maintain real-time inspection readiness and actively support both internal and regulatory audits.
• Build and sustain strong collaborative relationships with clinical trial teams, data management teams, and external partners.
• Act as a central point of contact to align expectations, timelines, and deliverables across all stakeholders.
• Participate in cross-functional clinical working groups to ensure seamless coordination and delivery of data management requirements.
• Gather and define requirements for eCRFs and other data collection tools, ensuring consistency in data quality, conventions, and dataset structure.
• Plan, track, and ensure timely delivery of key deliverables such as CRFs, data review plans, QC and oversight plans, database release plans, and final datasets.
• Ensure all data management documentation meets high standards of quality, clarity, accuracy, consistency, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead advanced-level activities by driving planning and execution, providing team leadership, sharing best practices, and delivering training sessions to support continuous improvement.

Your Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Health Sciences, or a related discipline with 3+ years of clinical data management experience, including hands-on involvement in clinical trials.
• Strong expertise in clinical data management processes, systems, and regulatory requirements, with proven ability to operate in global, cross-functional, and multicultural environments.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and organizational skills, with experience managing vendors and driving complex deliverables to completion.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly in data analysis, with the ability to interpret clinical data and communicate clear, data-driven insights to stakeholders.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive professional with a strong quality and compliance mindset, excellent communication skills, and a collaborative, solution-driven approach.

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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