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ICON plc

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🧬 Biotechnology

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Pharmaceuticals • Biotechnology • Healthcare Insurance

ICON plc is a global provider of clinical, consulting, and commercial services across various sectors in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They offer a wide range of clinical solutions, including decentralised clinical trials, cardiac safety solutions, early clinical laboratories, and medical imaging. ICON also provides technology solutions that support drug development from early phases to post-marketing. Their therapeutic expertise spans cardiovascular, oncology, internal medicine, and more, with a strong focus on transformative therapies like cell and gene therapies and biosimilars. ICON is recognized as a leading Contract Research Organisation (CRO), regularly providing thought leadership and contributing to industry publications and events. Their services are tailored to optimize clinical trials, offer regulatory intelligence, and deliver real-world evidence through robust data analysis and patient-centric solutions.

📋 Description

• Manage day-to-day project and programme management activities, supporting your team to deliver quality outcomes • Lead end-to-end management of clinical document translation projects, ensuring quality, compliance, budget adherence, and on-time delivery • Serve as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders, medical writers, subject matter experts (SMEs), and external translation vendors • Coordinate translation requirements, project planning, resource allocation, and execution from project initiation through completion • Monitor translation timelines, budgets, quality metrics, and regulatory compliance requirements across multiple concurrent projects • Provide expert project management support to clinical teams, including risk assessment, scope management, and vendor oversight • Drive the implementation, optimization, and governance of AI-enabled translation platforms and translation management tools • Review, evaluate, and continuously improve AI-generated translation outputs, collaborating with technology and development teams to enhance performance and efficiency.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Clinical Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, or a related scientific discipline • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including at least 3 years in clinical/regulatory document translation or bilingual quality control and 2 years in translation project management • Strong knowledge of clinical and regulatory documentation, including Protocols, Investigator’s Brochures (IB), Clinical Study Reports (CSR), and CTD clinical summaries • Demonstrated expertise in project planning, scheduling, risk management, budget management, and vendor management within a regulated environment • Hands-on experience with CAT tools, translation memory (TM), terminology management, QA tools, and AI-enabled translation platforms • Strong understanding of data protection, document control practices, compliance requirements, and translation quality standards • Business-level proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities while collaborating effectively across global, multicultural teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance related incentives • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable • Retirement and pension plans • Life assurance and disability coverage • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways