Clinical Trial Liaison – Clinical Research Lead

🕒 June 12

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $110.5k - $138.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧪 Clinical Research

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ICON plc

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

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

• Accountable for the full spectrum of investigator engagement from identification and qualification through enrollment, and support database lock, and study closeout • Serve as a clinical trial scientific ambassador, ensuring investigators deeply understand protocol intent, scientific rationale, and patient eligibility requirements • Develop and sustain strategic, high-trust relationships with investigators that span trials and therapeutic areas • Influence enrollment by co-creating tailored recruitment strategies aligned with site capabilities, patient population realities, and study objectives • Proactively find opportunities to reach new patients, accelerate enrollment and increase impact at priority sites, including for example, novel site models, community-based research initiatives etc • Capture and elevate critical insights from sites to optimize feasibility, protocol design, and study conduct • Lead site-level strategy and risk planning to ensure strong and predictable enrollment and data delivery • Leverage performance metrics to anticipate issues, intervene decisively, and maintain momentum toward clinical milestones • Drive inspection readiness as a continuous discipline across sites • Collaborate across functions and with vendor partners to resolve operational barriers, ensuring delivery with speed and quality • Maintain advanced understanding of local treatment paradigms and standard of care to influence strategic country/site selection and protocol localization • Provide oversight and quality assurance for vendor monitoring, escalating risks proactively • Cultivate a portfolio of strategically aligned, high-impact investigators

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; strong preference for scientific, clinical, or health-related fields • Minimum 5 years of experience in clinical research or pharmaceutical industry with experience directly interacting with or working with HCPs and clinical sites • Open to up to 60-80% travel during peak times (travel will vary) • Oncology experience required

🏖️ 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