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.
At ICON Strategic Solutions, we're continually growing our network of talented Clinical Research Associates across North America. As we expand our partnerships with leading global sponsors, we are seeking experienced CRA II and Senior CRA professionals interested in sponsor-dedicated opportunities.
As a Clinical Research Associate within our sponsor-dedicated environment, you will play a critical role in the successful delivery of clinical trials, helping bring innovative therapies to patients worldwide.
Depending on your experience level, you may:
- Conduct site qualification, initiation, routine monitoring, and close-out visits
- Ensure protocol compliance, patient safety, data quality, and regulatory adherence
- Build strong relationships with investigative sites and key stakeholders
- Identify and proactively resolve site and study issues
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support successful study delivery
- Support inspection readiness and high-quality study execution
- Mentor and guide less experienced CRAs (Senior CRA level)
What We're Looking For
CRA II
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific, healthcare, or related field
- Clinical monitoring experience within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO industry
- Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial regulations, and monitoring practices
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams
Senior CRA
- Significant clinical monitoring experience across multiple studies and sites
- Advanced knowledge of clinical trial processes, regulations, and site management
- Proven ability to manage priorities and drive study quality independently
- Experience mentoring or supporting other CRAs is advantageous
For all applicants
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Willingness to travel as required
- Passion for advancing clinical research and improving patient outcomes
When you join ICON Strategic Solutions, you gain the best of both worlds:
- Work within dedicated sponsor environments
- Build expertise with leading global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies
- Access diverse opportunities across multiple therapeutic areas
- Benefit from ICON's global scale, career development, and support network
- Join a culture focused on innovation, collaboration, and patient impact
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
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
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific, healthcare, or related field
- Clinical monitoring experience within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO industry
- Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial regulations, and monitoring practices
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams
- Significant clinical monitoring experience across multiple studies and sites
- Advanced knowledge of clinical trial processes, regulations, and site management
- Proven ability to manage priorities and drive study quality independently
- Experience mentoring or supporting other CRAs
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Willingness to travel as required
- Legal right to work in the country where the role is based
ICON plc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ICON plc and has not been reviewed or approved by ICON plc.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as comprehensive, with medical coverage and wellness initiatives highlighted. Larger sites are also associated with added wellness supports such as onsite fitness options and access to an employee assistance program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off and flexibility provisions are positioned as a meaningful part of the total package, including vacation/annual leave and flexible work scheduling. Flexibility is sometimes cited as helping offset long hours in certain roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and savings support is presented as a core component of the benefits package, including offerings such as pension arrangements in some locations and a U.S. 401(k) plan with company match. Financial planning resources are also emphasized as part of broader security benefits.
ICON plc Insights
What We Do
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.
