ICON plc

Global Trial Optimization Specialist

ICON plc • $95K — $115K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, or biological science required.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience, including 2 years in clinical trials required.
  • Experience in feasibility and patient recruitment strategy at site and country levels is necessary.
  • Oncology clinical research background is essential.
  • Proficiency in business process analytics and continuous improvement preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills needed to synthesize data effectively.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills are a must.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic recruitment and retention recommendations for clinical trials.
  • Consult on existing projects requiring recruitment and retention support.
  • Manage project scope, objectives, and deliverables for assigned projects.
  • Serve as primary contact for Patient Recruitment and Retention with sponsors.
  • Select and manage recruitment and retention vendors.
  • Coordinate project activities to ensure milestones are met.
  • Stay updated on recruitment trends and technologies to enhance productivity.

Benefits

  • Various annual leave entitlements available.
  • Comprehensive health insurance options for employees and families.
  • Competitive retirement planning offerings.
  • Access to a Global Employee Assistance Programme for well-being support.
  • Life assurance provided.
  • Flexible optional benefits tailored to individual needs, including childcare vouchers and discounted gym memberships.
Full Job Description
Global Trial Optimization Specialist - Oncology - Home Based (US)

What will you be doing?
  • Develop strategic patient recruitment and retention recommendations to aid clinical trial teams to execute clinical studies within proposed timelines
  • Serve as expert consultant to project teams for existing projects needing recruitment and retention support
  • Manage the scope of work, objectives, quality of deliverables, and other activities of assigned projects (based on scope, may co-manage or independently manage these projects)
  • Serve as primary project contact for Patient Recruitment and Retention programs with sponsor to maintain appropriate communication channels and adherence to reporting schedules as required
  • Select and manage recruitment and retention vendors
  • Coordinate strategy-related project activities for study team and sponsor to confirm that overall project milestones are met
  • Maintain knowledge of current and innovative recruitment trends, vendors, and technologies to increase productivity and recommend additional support as needed
  • Leverage internal and external intelligence to support and refine strategies on assigned projects
  • Support continued process improvement to maintain quality within the organization


What you need to have:

Education : Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a medicine, pharmacy, nursing or biological science

Experience :
  • At least 3 years of career experience including 2 years in the conduct of clinical trials and some knowledge in business process analytics and continuous improvement highly preferred
  • Pharma and/or CRO experience highly preferred
  • Feasibility Experience required
  • Patient recruitment strategy planning experience (at site and country level)
  • Oncology clinical research background experience required
  • Analytical skills and ability to synthesize data
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment

Skills:
  • Robust analytical skills and ability to synthesize data and differing points of view to navigate to an evidence-based data-driven solution
  • Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Knowledge and ability to apply GCP/ICH and applicable regulatory guidelines
  • Superior presentation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to identify risks to execution and contribute to planned solutions
  • Computer skills including proficiency in aspects of data analysis and presentation software, Microsoft Word, and Excel
  • Excellent organizational and problem solving skills
  • Effective time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships in a matrix environment
  • Travel of 10% could be expected for client meetings and Investigator Meetings. IMs could be domestic or international travel.
  • To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.


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.

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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About ICON plc

ICON plc is a global provider of drug development and commercialisation services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development. ICON has approximately 15700 employees in 40 countries. The company was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1990 and is headquartered in Leopardstown, Dublin. ICON has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ since 1998.
Learn more about ICON plc
Size
39,300 employees
Market Cap
$16.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$332.3 million
Founded
2017
5 Year Trend
+26.9%
Revenue
$2.7 billion
NASDAQ

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