Scientific Leadership Research Coordinator
As a SLRC at ICON, you will manage clinical trial operations activities, supporting your team and stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes across our clinical programs.
What You Will Do:
- The SLRC is required to ensure that meaningful and collaborative scientific exchange through engagement activities is achieved to globally impact our strategies.
- Key to the role is the optimal management of the operations of client’s Investigator Studies Program
- The SLRC manages Congress Operations activity for the TA.
Project Management
- Project manages and/or supports investigator-initiated studies (ISP), the scientific congresses, and Research & Development (R&D) Congress support for the TA
- These key functions contribute to the development and refinement of our TA Scientific and Medical Affairs Strategic Plan for Our Company Research Laboratories.
- Ensures that the oversite of these activities is achieved to globally impact the scientific strategy for TA
Investigator Studies Program
- Co-leads with ISP
- Chair (Executive Director of Scientific Affairs) and supports the ISP committee with the review, decision making, and operational management of research proposals
- Provides optimal oversight of the TA Company ISP operations to ensure that the research submitted by investigators is compliantly and efficiently managed
Congress Support
- Supports logistical and strategic planning of R&D activities at scientific congresses, such as daily debriefs and scientific leader engagements
- Co-leads with the EDSA and is planning manager with the EDSA for all disease area scientific engagements.
- Provides congress support and is responsible for developing and updating the scientific leadership strategy
Required qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years of pharmaceutical or healthcare-related experience in internal or external scientific research operations
- Strong leadership, project management, and organizational awareness skills
- Strong leadership, resilience, collaborative and interpersonal skills
- Ability to coordinate across divisions
- Ability to lead without direct authority over a continuum of stakeholders
- Research database proficiency
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications
Location:
- United States
- Preference for candidates located in the Pennsylvania region
- Remote role with occasional travel to Upper Gwynedd (UG) as needed
Travel Requirements:
- Travel to scientific congresses approximately 6 times per year
Preferred Qualifications:
- Congress management experience
- Experience supporting scientific engagement activities and stakeholder coordination within Medical Affairs or Scientific Affairs organizations