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 values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.
The Clinical Study Manager (Biosampling) is responsible for the operational set-up & follow-up of central laboratory (CL) related activities for a project or a group of studies to guarantee alignment amongst the entire network and with Clinical Operations to support delivery of laboratory results timely at right quality and cost.
What You Will Do:
You will manage day-to-day clinical trial management activities, focused on the operational set-up & follow-up of central laboratory (CL) related activities for a project or a group of studies to guarantee alignment amongst the entire network and with Clinical Operations to support delivery of laboratory results timely at right quality and cost.
Key responsibilities include:
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Your Profile:
You will have solid clinical trial management experience, with the ability to manage competing priorities. Excellent networking capabilities and ability to influence and manage stakeholders at all levels of the organization. The ability to facilitate and lead cross functional meetings/challenge status quo and inefficient ways of working and need to be comfortable in a mediation role.
Required qualifications:
· Master’s degree in medical/life sciences or equivalent background.
· Demonstrated expertise in Project Management beyond their own field of expertise.
· Demonstrated capability to integrate complex inter-departmental links, processes, databases, and systems.
· Demonstrated knowledge and competency in laboratory processes and extended knowledge of ICH-GCP/GCLP rules.
· Demonstrated fluency in spoken and written English beyond scientific English.
· Good holistic view especially to proactively detect problems and define possible solution and/or to surface issues to Management.
Job Related Experience (minimum requirements):
· At least 5 years of operational experience in clinical laboratory activities and clinical study conduct
· Proven experience in clinical project planning, project management and issues resolution
· Ability to quickly integrate with GSK clinical development processes and global network to build strong partnership with lab vendors and GSK stakeholders.
· Experience of managing business remote matrix network of internal and external stakeholders of multicultural and multidisciplinary people with different expertise and various scientific background
· Ability to align all the parties involved to build alliances and influence across national and cultural boundaries (up to 20 in different countries, including Africa and China)
· Experience in leading various operational meetings
· FDA or other competent authority inspection exposure
· Experience of budget management
Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.
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
Benefits may vary depending on role and location.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
Inclusion and Accessibility
ICON is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know or submit a request here.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in medical or life sciences, or equivalent background
- Project management expertise beyond the candidate's own field of expertise
- Ability to integrate complex interdepartmental links, processes, databases, and systems
- Knowledge and competency in laboratory processes and extended knowledge of ICH-GCP and GCLP rules
- Fluency in spoken and written English beyond scientific English
- Ability to proactively detect problems, define solutions, and escalate issues to management
- At least five years of operational experience in clinical laboratory activities and clinical study conduct
- Experience in clinical project planning, project management, and issue resolution
- Experience integrating with clinical development processes and global networks while managing laboratory vendor and stakeholder partnerships
- Experience managing remote matrix networks of internal and external multicultural and multidisciplinary stakeholders
- Experience aligning stakeholders and influencing across national and cultural boundaries
- Experience leading operational meetings
- FDA or other competent-authority inspection exposure
- Experience managing budgets
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Since our foundation in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, our mission has been to help our clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life. We do this by delivering best in class information, solutions and performance, with an unyielding focus on quality at all times. We offer a full range of consulting, development and commercialisation services from a global network of offices in 53 countries. We focus our innovation on the factors that are critical to our clients – reducing time to market, reducing cost, and increasing quality – and our global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas.









