# Global Study Associate Director (Cardiovascular Clinical Trials)

**Company**: ICON Strategic Solutions
**Location**: UK/Bulgaria/Spain (Home-Based)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Global Study Associate Director (GSAD) at ICON Strategic Solutions, you will lead the delivery of global cardiovascular and cardiometabolic clinical trials.

This is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving study execution, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring studies are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead global study teams to deliver cardiovascular clinical trials across the study lifecycle.

- Drive study timelines, budgets, quality objectives, and key milestones.

- Serve as the primary operational contact for study teams, CROs, and external partners.

- Oversee outsourced activities, ensuring effective vendor management and study oversight.

- Lead study planning, risk management, issue resolution, and escalation activities.

- Ensure TMF quality and inspection readiness.

- Manage study budgets, forecasting, and operational reporting.

- Support audits, regulatory inspections, and process improvement initiatives.

**Requirements**

- Degree in Life Sciences, Clinical Research, or a related field.

- Significant global experience within pharmaceutical or biotechnology clinical development.

- Proven experience leading global clinical studies and cross-functional teams.

- Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial regulations, and study management principles.

- Experience managing study budgets, vendors, timelines, and operational risks.

- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and organisational skills.

- Experience supporting cardiovascular or cardiometabolic clinical trials is highly desirable.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Advanced degree (Master's, PhD, or equivalent).

- Project Management certification.

- Experience delivering large-scale global studies across multiple phases of development.

- Previous involvement in cardiovascular outcomes studies or late-phase cardiovascular trials would be advantageous.

**Why Apply?**

This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading organisation and play a key role in the delivery of innovative cardiovascular clinical development programmes, helping advance therapies that could improve outcomes for patients worldwide.

**Rewards & Benefits**

ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.

Benefits may include:

- 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
- ICH-GCP
- clinical trial regulations
- study management
- leadership
- stakeholder management
- communication
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- Project Management certification
- cardiovascular outcomes studies
- late-phase cardiovascular trials

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