Senior Site Partner
ICON plc
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New Zealand
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About the role
- Building and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with key investigator sites, acting as their primary ICON point of contact.
- Supporting sites across multiple studies by facilitating communication, addressing operational challenges, and escalating issues as needed.
- Collaborating with clinical operations, feasibility, and project teams to align site capabilities with study opportunities.
- Gathering and sharing site feedback and insights to inform protocol design, feasibility assumptions, and process improvements.
- Monitoring performance metrics for partnered sites, including start-up timelines, recruitment, and quality, and driving improvement actions.
- Contributing to site engagement strategies, tools, and best practices to enhance the overall site experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, healthcare, or a related field, or equivalent clinical research experience.
- Substantial experience in clinical research with strong exposure to site management, site partnerships, or site-facing roles.
- Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with credibility among investigators and site staff.
- Good understanding of clinical trial operations, site processes, and key drivers of recruitment and quality.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Ability to manage multiple sites and studies in a matrixed environment while maintaining a high level of service and responsiveness.
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical researchsite managementsite partnershipsclinical trial operationsrecruitmentquality monitoringperformance metricsprotocol designfeasibility assumptionsprocess improvements
Soft Skills
relationship-buildingstakeholder managementcommunicationproblem-solvingproactive mindsetsolutions-oriented mindsetorganizational skillsresponsivenesscollaborationadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in life sciencesBachelor’s degree in healthcareequivalent clinical research experience