Senior Clinical Research Associate

🕒 August 7

🦀 Maryland, Pennsylvania – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

⏰ 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

• Perform site management activities for the client's Oncology clinical trials • Act as the primary contact between the client's clinical trial team and investigative sites • Perform remote and on-site monitoring/co-monitoring visits throughout the clinical trial lifecycle • Conduct site qualification, initiation, interim monitoring, and close-out visits • Assess monitoring quality and train or mentor less experienced CRAs • Document monitoring activities and submit or approve visit reports • Manage essential document collection and TMF reconciliation • Support IRB/Ethics Committee submissions and confirm approvals • Review Key Risk Indicator metrics, issues, and action items • Determine root causes and develop or implement site CAPA plans • Deliver training on protocols, SOPs, GCPs, and regulations • Support regulatory inspections • Contribute to site identification, feasibility, qualification, and activation • Lead site engagement initiatives and foster relationships with Oncology sites and networks

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; scientific field preferred • 5+ years monitoring clinical trials and independently conducting on-site and remote monitoring visits • At least 2 years monitoring solid tumor clinical trials • 1+ years of early development oncology trial experience and/or Phase III Oncology trial experience • Solid tumor clinical trial experience required • Experience utilizing Veeva systems highly preferred • Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining site relationships and securing compliance • Expertise in GxPs and Oncology monitoring techniques, including Risk-Based Monitoring, and terminology • Experience collaborating with sites from initial engagement through close-out phases • Experience activating sites • Experience training site staff • Experience supporting sites and/or sponsors in regulatory inspections • Experience working within a Functional Services or in-house monitoring model preferred • Willingness to travel up to 50% • Legal right to work in the country where the role is based

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Performance related incentives • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Retirement and pension plans • Life assurance and disability coverage • Employee assistance programmes • Wellbeing resources • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways