ICON plc

Senior Clinical Research Associate

ICON plc$110K — $138K *
US-Anywhere
+ 3 other locationsRemote
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree in clinical, science, or health-related field.
  • 2-5 years of clinical monitoring experience as a CRA 2, or 5+ years for Sr CRA roles.
  • Knowledge of ICH and local regulatory authority regulations.
  • Experience in oncology monitoring (Phase II/III) required.
  • Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
  • Experience in feasibility, site selection, and site startup processes.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and monitor clinical trials ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Assess potential investigative sites and initiate clinical trials activity.
  • Manage site startup activities including regulatory document collection and consent review.
  • Review and verify the accuracy of trial data collected.
  • Provide site status updates and complete required monitoring activity documents.
  • Communicate effectively with investigative sites and team members.
  • Reconcile essential documents and verify compliance at investigative sites.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package supporting health and career development.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage available.
  • Retirement and pension plans offered.
  • Life assurance and disability coverage included.
  • Employee assistance programs and wellbeing resources are provided.
  • Opportunities for learning and development through structured training.
Full Job Description
Senior Clinical Research Associate - Oncology - Central/East (NY/NJ or TX)

What you will be doing:

  • Implements and monitors clinical trials to ensure sponsor and investigator obligations are being met and are compliant with applicable local regulatory requirements and Internation Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines. 
  • Assesses the qualification of potential investigative sites, initiates clinical trials at investigative sites, instructs site personnel on the proper conduct of clinical trials, and closes clinical trials at investigative sites. 
  • Responsible for site startup activities for assigned sites, including but not limited to regulatory documents collection, informed consent review, IRB/IEC submission support, and budgets and contracts negotiations. 
  • Reviews and verifies accuracy of clinical trial data collected, either onsite or remotely
  • Provides regular site status information to team members, trial management, and updates trial management tools.
  • Completes monitoring activity documents as required by sponsor's SOPs.
  • Works closely with other clinical team members to facilitate timely resolution of trial and/or clinical issues.
  • Escalates site and trial related issues per Sponsor's SOPs until identified issues are resolved or closed.
  • Performs essential document site file reconciliation. 
  • Performs source document verification and query resolution. 
  • Assesses investigational product (IP) accountability, dispensation, and compliance at the investigative sites. 
  • Verifies serious adverse event (SAE) reporting according to trial specifications and ICH GCP guidelines.
  • Communicates with investigative sites.
  • Updates applicable tracking systems
  • Ensures all required training is completed and documented. 
  • Functions with little oversight (Sr level) 
  • May serve as a subject matter expert for clinical operations on monitoring related activities (Sr level)
  • May be assigned to complex studies and/or sites.
  • Provides leadership skills to assigned projects within the clinical operations department.

What you need to have:

  • Highly responsive and proactive, team player
  • An undergraduate degree or its equivalent in clinical, science, or health related field from an accredited institution; a licensed health care professional (i.e. registered nurse) or equivalent work experience required.
  • 2-5 years clinical monitoring experience required (CRA 2 for sponsor)
  • 5+ years clinical monitoring experience required (Sr CRA for sponsor)
  • Knowledge of ICH and local regulatory authority regulations regarding drug
  • Read, write and speak fluent English.
  • Oncology monitoring II/III experience required
  • Serves as observation and performance visit leader.
  • Experience doing feasibility/site selection/site start up required.
  • Budget negotiations experience preferred. 
  • May serve as a resource for and interact with other functional areas to resolve site issues and facilitate trial timelines.
  • May be assigned clinical tasks where advanced negotiating skills are required.
  • 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

Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.


Rewards & Benefits

ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.


Benefits may include:

  • Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
  • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
  • Retirement and pension plans
  • Life assurance and disability coverage
  • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
  • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

Benefits may vary depending on role and location.


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Salary Range

$110,520.00-$138,150.00

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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
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