ICON plc

Local Trial Manager - US Remote

ICON plc

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

  • Planning, management, and oversight of clinical study execution in accordance with the global program strategy, through leadership of the Local Study Team (LST)
  • Supports country-level operational planning and accountable for site selection within assigned country/countries
  • Contributes and develops study-specific materials – e.g., monitoring plan, study specific training documents
  • Supports and contributes to Clinical Study Teams (CSTs) / Trial Management Teams (TMTs) as applicable, agenda-driven, present at meetings
  • Communicates country status (including timelines and deliverables) to key stakeholders (e.g., Global Clinical Managers [GCM], Program Managers, CST or TMT, Development Operations Manager [DOM] etc) with oversight as required and ensures updates to relevant systems
  • Accountable for site-level goals setting and study-specific deliverables for clinical sites within their country/countries
  • Contributes to the study-level forecast for investigational product, study level accountability and reconciliation across assigned countries, management of ELE ( enrolment long-range estimates) process
  • Monitors the execution of the clinical study against timelines, deliverables, and budget for that country
  • Translates global start-up requirements into local country targets
  • Monitors country enrolment and retention and act on deviations from plan
  • Identify barriers to enrolment and support recruitment and retention strategic solutions
  • Monitors and acts upon data flow metrics - review, trend identification and analysis
  • Monitors and reviews country and study trends
  • Reviews Monitoring Visit Reports
  • Identifies and facilitates resolution of cross-functional study-specific issues
  • Provides updates regarding the study budget and obtains approval for budget deviations for clinical sites (outside of range)
  • Escalates any issues related to delivery, timelines, or budget to GCMs (or TMT lead if appropriate)
  • Escalates CRA performance issues to applicable Clinical Trial Oversight Manager
  • Conducts on-site quality visits with CRAs where/when appropriate and supports the maintenance of site relationships

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree & 3 years of directly related experience OR Bachelor’s degree & 5 years of directly related experience OR Associate’s degree & 10 years of directly related experience
  • Preferred Qualifications: BA/BS/BSc
  • Minimum 2-3 years’ experience of leading local/regional trials