ICON plc

Local Trial Manager

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 global program strategy, through leadership of the Local Study Team (LST).
  • Support country-level operational planning and site selection within assigned country/ies.
  • 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 meetings.
  • Communicates country status (timelines and deliverables) to key stakeholders (GCM, Program Managers, CST or TMT, DOM) with oversight as required and ensures updates to relevant systems.
  • Accountable for site-level goal setting and study-specific deliverables for clinical sites within their country/ - ies.
  • Contributes to study-level forecast for investigational product, support study-level accountability and reconciliation across countries, management of E LE (enrolment long-range estimates) process.
  • Monitors execution of the clinical study against timelines, deliverables, and budget for that country.
  • Translates global startup 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, with targeted follow up where appropriate.
  • 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 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
  • Bachelor's degree & 5 years of directly related experience
  • Associate's degree & 10 years of directly related experience
  • Preferred Qualifications: BA/BS/BSc
  • Minimum 2-3 years’ experience of leading local/regional trials