Clinical System Lead (Remote)

About the role

ICON, a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation, is hiring a Clinical System Lead for its Full-Service IOD Clinical Data Science team. The Clinical System Lead directs one or more Clinical Data Science project teams involved in the initiation, planning, set up, maintenance, control and closing of systems used in clinical trial projects. The position is remote and open to Mexico, Colombia and the United States.

Key responsibilities

• Support sales efforts by taking part in business development and assisting with and presenting at bid defense meetings
• Perform peer review of study team technical documentation and work output
• Act as a contact point for internal and external customer teams on assigned studies
• Assist in leading project kick-off meetings with internal and external stakeholders
• Perform quality control peer review of CRFs
• Keep project managers and responsible parties informed of issues affecting target dates, scope or budget, and escalate potential problems
• Negotiate timelines and key deliverables with clients, external customers and departments, working independently and with other project leads
• Contribute to overseeing system integration set-up and vendor interactions where needed
• Provide input on actuals and forecasts of units and hours (revenue and resources) to the CDS project manager
• Travel approximately 15% domestically and/or internationally

Required profile

• 2+ years of clinical data management experience, including implementation and management of clinical data systems
• Detailed understanding of protocol content and data collection requirements, considering user experience and dataset structures
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements, processes and timelines in an agile way
• Ability to lead teams in internal UAT of configured system solutions
• Bachelor's degree or local equivalent
• Legal right to work in the country where the role is based

Required skills

• Relational databases: technical understanding of how they function and ability to create medium to complex data flow diagrams
• Project management, including timelines, resource requirements and financial tracking
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What we offer

• 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