# Senior Manager, FSA

**Company**: ICON
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.

As a Senior Manager, FSA, you will provide strategic leadership across feasibility and site activation operations, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery through a team of FSA Managers while supporting broader business and organisational objectives.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Leading regional or global FSA Managers responsible for feasibility, country and site strategy, regulatory activation, and study start-up delivery.

- Setting the strategic direction for FSA operations across multiple studies, programmes, or portfolios and ensuring alignment with organisational priorities.

- Driving performance through managers by establishing clear objectives, monitoring operational metrics, and ensuring proactive risk identification and mitigation.

- Partnering with senior functional leaders, project teams, and customers to shape start-up strategies and support successful clinical trial execution.

- Supporting business development activities, including proposals, bid defences, customer governance meetings, and strategic growth initiatives.

- Leading organisational change, process optimisation, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, scalability, and quality across FSA.

- Building leadership capability within the function by coaching, mentoring, and developing FSA Managers and strengthening succession pipelines.

- Ensuring effective resource planning, workforce strategy, and capacity management to meet current and future business needs.

- Acting as a senior escalation point for complex operational, customer, and people-related matters.

**Your Profile:**

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific, healthcare, or life sciences discipline.

- Extensive experience in clinical research ideally with significant expertise in feasibility, site selection, country strategy, regulatory activation, and study start-up.

- Proven success managing managers or multiple teams within a CRO, pharmaceutical, or related environment.

- Demonstrated ability to lead large global or regional organisations through periods of growth, transformation, and operational change.

- Strong strategic planning and business management skills with the ability to translate organisational objectives into operational execution.

- Experience partnering with senior customers and executive stakeholders, including participation in governance and business development activities.

- Strong financial, resource planning, and workforce management capabilities.

- Excellent communication, influencing, and leadership skills with the ability to build engagement and accountability across dispersed teams.

- Demonstrated track record of driving operational excellence, standardisation, and measurable performance improvement.

- Willingness to travel as required (approximately 15%).

**Rewards & 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

## Skills

### Required
- clinical research
- feasibility
- site selection
- regulatory activation
- study start-up
- strategic planning
- business management
- leadership
- communication
- influencing

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