Description
As a Clinical Trial Liaison at ICON, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON's global expertise. You will combine deep therapeutic and scientific knowledge with strategic agility to influence investigators, elevate protocol understanding, and co-develop tailored enrollment strategies in existing and new therapeutic areas.
Clinical Investigator Management
- 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
- Capture and elevate critical insights from sites to optimize feasibility, protocol design, and study conduct
Clinical Trial Management
- 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
- Where applicable, lead end-to-end management of Post-Marketing Safety Studies in compliance with local regulations
Business Management and Engagement
- Cultivate a portfolio of strategically aligned high-impact investigators who consistently prioritize trials
- Enable an exceptional investigator experience by being a responsive, knowledgeable, and valued scientific partner
- Collaborate cross-functionally to align on trial and site priorities, troubleshooting challenges with urgency and creativity
- Conduct data-informed site prospecting and prioritization, contributing to trial competitiveness and regional strategic execution
- Maintain scientific fluency and therapeutic expertise to lead meaningful, solutions-focused discussions with site personnel
- Act as a key liaison between field teams, vendors, and investigators, ensuring alignment, shared purpose, and continuous knowledge transfer
- Partner closely with field team colleagues to elevate the investigator and site experience, ensuring seamless collaboration and improving enrollment outcomes and Investigator relationships
Country / Regulatory Engagement (where applicable)
- Represent Investigator Engagement with regulatory agencies, ethics committees, and national research organizations in countries/territory
- Influence the clinical trial ecosystem to improve regulatory agility and operational feasibility
- Ensure that local requirements are translated into compliant, efficient trial execution and that internal processes reflect evolving country landscapes
- Partner with leadership to identify and align regional initiatives and contribute to enterprise-wide clinical development success
- Ability to travel up to 60%
Your Profile:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in clinical research or pharmaceutical industry with experience directly interacting with or working with HCPs and clinical sites
- Minimum 2 years of relevant clinical or therapeutic area experience in Oncology
- Advanced degree in a scientific or clinical field (PharmD, PhD, MD, or MSc preferred)
- Excellent understanding of GCP, clinical development and operations, and trial lifecycle
- Demonstrated understanding of the therapeutic landscape and standards of care, with the ability to apply this knowledge to decision making
- Proven ability to build credibility and influence HCP community through scientific acumen and relationship strength
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