# Site Specialist

**Company**: ICON
**Location**: Barcelona, Spain
**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 Site Specialist II at ICON, you will play a key role in supporting clinical trial sites in Spain, helping studies progress efficiently through start-up, activation and ongoing site management.

Working independently across assigned sites and studies, you will act as an important operational point of contact for sites and internal study teams, ensuring documentation, regulatory activities, systems and key milestones are managed accurately and in line with study requirements.

**Responsibilities:**

- Coordinating the collection, review and maintenance of essential site documentation, ensuring completeness, accuracy and compliance with study and regulatory requirements.

- Supporting site start-up and regulatory activities in accordance with EU CTR requirements.

- Acting as a key operational contact for Spanish investigator sites, providing guidance on documentation, systems, timelines and study processes.

- Tracking site progress, milestones and outstanding actions, ensuring information is accurately maintained within relevant clinical trial management systems.

- Working closely with Site Activation, Regulatory, Clinical Operations and other cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues that could impact site timelines.

- Supporting ongoing site maintenance activities throughout the study lifecycle.

- Proactively identifying potential delays or operational challenges and driving appropriate follow-up with sites and internal stakeholders.

- Contributing to process improvements and sharing best practices across the wider team.

- Providing guidance and support to more junior colleagues where appropriate.

**Your Profile:**

- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, healthcare or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant clinical research experience.

- Previous experience in site support, site activation, study start-up, regulatory or clinical trial operations within a CRO, pharmaceutical company or similar clinical research environment.

- Hands-on experience working with EU CTR processes and requirements.

- Good understanding of clinical trial documentation, GCP and site-level regulatory requirements.

- Fluent Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple sites, deadlines and competing priorities.

- A proactive, solution-focused approach and confidence working with investigator sites and cross-functional 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

## Skills

### Required
- EU Clinical Trials Regulation
- clinical trial operations
- site support
- regulatory affairs
- Spanish
- English

### Nice to have
- Portuguese

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