Senior Digital Programmer, Clinical Research
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Clinical Trial Liaison / Clinical Research Lead
ICON plc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, Oregon • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
Google Cloud Platform
About the role
- Consult with your supervision regarding your actual job responsibilities and any related duties that may be required for the position.
- Accountable for the full spectrum of investigator engagement from identification and qualification through enrollment, and support database lock, and study closeout
- Serve as a clinical trial scientific ambassador, ensuring investigators deeply understand protocol intent, scientific rationale, and patient eligibility requirements
- Develop and sustain strategic, high-trust relationships with investigators that span trials and therapeutic areas
- Influence enrollment by co-creating tailored recruitment strategies aligned with site capabilities, patient population realities, and study objectives
- Proactively find opportunities to reach new patients, accelerate enrollment and increase impact at priority sites, including for example, novel site models, community-based research initiatives etc.
- Capture and elevate critical insights from sites to optimize feasibility, protocol design, and study conduct
- Lead site-level strategy and risk planning to ensure strong and predictable enrollment and data delivery
- Leverage performance metrics to anticipate issues, intervene decisively, and maintain momentum toward clinical milestones
- Drive inspection readiness as a continuous discipline across sites
- Collaborate across functions and with vendor partners to resolve operational barriers, ensuring delivery with speed and quality
- Maintain advanced understanding of local treatment paradigms and standard of care to influence strategic country/site selection and protocol localization
- Provide oversight and quality assurance for vendor monitoring, escalating risks proactively
- Cultivate a portfolio of strategically aligned, high-impact investigators who consistently prioritize sponsor trials
- Enable an exceptional investigator experience by being a responsive, knowledgeable, and valued scientific partner
- Collaborate cross-functionally (e.g., Medical, Clinical, Study Delivery) to align on trial and site priorities, troubleshooting challenges with urgency and creativity
- Conduct data-informed site prospecting and prioritization, contributing to trial competitiveness and regional strategic execution
- Maintain scientific fluency and therapeutic expertise to lead meaningful, solutions-focused discussions with site personnel
- Act as a key liaison between field teams, vendors, and investigators, ensuring alignment, shared purpose, and continuous knowledge transfer
- Partner closely with field team colleagues to elevate the investigator and site experience, ensuring seamless collaboration and improving enrollment outcomes and Investigator relationships
- Represent Investigator Engagement with regulatory agencies, ethics committees, and national research organizations in countries/territory
- Influence the clinical trial ecosystem to improve regulatory agility and operational feasibility
- Ensure that local requirements are translated into compliant, efficient trial execution and that sponsor’s internal processes reflect evolving country landscapes
- Partner with leadership to identify and align regional initiatives and contribute to enterprise-wide clinical development success
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; strong preference for scientific, clinical, or health-related fields
- Minimum 5 years of experience in clinical research or pharmaceutical industry with experience directly interacting with or working with HCPs and clinical sites
- Minimum 2 years of relevant clinical or therapeutic area experience in Oncology
- Advanced degree in a scientific or clinical field (PharmD, PhD, MD, or MSc preferred)
- Excellent understanding of GCP, clinical development and operations, and trial lifecycle
- Demonstrated understanding of the therapeutic landscape and standards of care, with the ability to apply this knowledge to decision making
- Proven ability to build credibility and influence HCP community through scientific acumen and relationship strength
- Strategic approach with demonstrated success in delivering results in complex, fast-paced environments
- Data-driven decision-making skills; ability to interpret and act on performance and operational metrics
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and organizational skills
- Deep therapeutic area knowledge and familiarity with local clinical research ecosystems
- Experience directly influencing clinical site performance and driving enrollment success
- Track record of delivering or exceeding performance targets in a collaborative matrix environment
- Experience working with regulators or national bodies in support of clinical trial delivery
- English fluency and proficiency in local language(s) as needed.
Benefits
- 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, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised 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, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
clinical researchOncologyGCPclinical developmenttrial lifecycledata-driven decision-makingperformance metricsprotocol designinvestigator engagementrecruitment strategies
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationorganizationalrelationship buildingstrategic thinkinginfluencecollaborationproblem-solvingcreativitycredibility
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreePharmDPhDMDMSc
