ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.
We are currently seeking a Clinical Research Associate II (CRA II) to join our fast-paced, collaborative team within our Functional Service Provider (FSP) division.
In this role, you’ll be dedicated to a prestigious, top-tier global pharmaceutical partner headquartered in France, acting as a fully integrated member of their clinical operations team on high-impact global studies.
This role requires residency in the Paris area and can be office or home based.
What You Will Be Doing:
You will perform clinical trial monitoring tasks with a focus on technical quality, data integrity, and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities include:
- Independently monitor Phase II–IV clinical trials as a dedicated resource to a major French pharmaceutical leader, ensuring full compliance with ICH-GCP and specific sponsor SOPs.
- Manage clinical studies in France across multiple therapeutic areas including Neurology, Rare Disease, Dermatology, and Oncology.
- Conduct site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits, ensuring the highest standards of site performance and protocol adherence.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with investigators and site personnel to drive recruitment and facilitate smooth trial operations within this exclusive partnership.
- Perform data review and resolution of queries to maintain the highest quality of clinical data within the sponsor’s proprietary systems.
- Contribute to the preparation and review of study documentation, including monitoring plans and clinical study visit reports.
- Manage study documentation, regulatory submissions, and ethics/IRB approvals to ensure strict adherence to trial timelines.
- Support study cost efficiency and provide proactive resolution for site-level issues to meet critical milestones for our pharmaceutical partner.
Your Profile:
You will have a solid foundation in clinical trial monitoring and the ability to work independently within a sponsor-dedicated environment.
Required qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s or Advanced degree in a relevant field such as life sciences, nursing, or medicine.
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience as a Clinical Research Associate, with a proven track record of independent monitoring within a CRO or Pharma environment.
- Fluency in French and professional proficiency in English (mandatory for reporting and international stakeholder management).
- Strong knowledge of the French clinical trial landscape, local regulatory requirements, and ICH-GCP guidelines.
- Proven ability to manage multiple sites and projects simultaneously, with strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive site compliance and represent a leading global sponsor effectively.
- Ability to travel as required to clinical sites and should possess a valid driver’s license.
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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our benefits examples include:
Various annual leave entitlements
A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
Life assurance
Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here.
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Advanced degree in life sciences, nursing, or medicine
- 2-3 years of experience as a Clinical Research Associate
- Fluency in French and professional proficiency in English
- Strong knowledge of the French clinical trial landscape and local regulatory requirements
- Proven ability to manage multiple sites and projects
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Valid driver's license
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.
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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.
