ICON plc

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