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Manager, Client Engagement – Patient Recruitment & Retention (PRR)
As a Manager, Client Engagement, you will be responsible for fostering strong relationships with our clients and ensuring their satisfaction with our services.
This role sits within ICON’s Patient Recruitment & Retention (PRR) division, where we deliver patient‑centred solutions designed to optimise clinical trial recruitment, engagement, and retention across the full patient journey.
You will oversee and support client services workstreams, ensuring deliverables meet quality and timeline expectations while supporting the successful development of patient‑centric recruitment and retention strategies.
What You Will Be Doing:
Develop and implement strategies to enhance patient recruitment and retention, leveraging multiple service line capabilities to address protocol‑specific challenges
Act as a key client partner, delivering customised recruitment and retention approaches aligned to patient insights and study requirements
Collaborate with internal teams, including PRR specialists and operational functions, to ensure aligned and effective service delivery
Support the development and execution of multi‑channel recruitment and engagement solutions, including site‑specific strategies, digital outreach, and patient‑centred services
Monitor client feedback and performance metrics, including enrolment and engagement data, to identify opportunities for optimisation
Manage key markets as the primary point of contact, ensuring timely recommendations to support patient enrolment and retention
Drive continuous improvement across client service delivery, supporting innovative approaches that enhance patient experience and recruitment outcomes
Support budget development, contribute to Bid Defence meetings, and help retain patient recruitment and retention scope
You will have/be:
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field
Proven experience in client/ account management within the clinical research industry, managing multiple studies or client accounts
Direct experience supporting and analysing patient recruitment, retention, and/or site engagement strategies within clinical trials, with the ability to interpret enrolment and engagement metrics to optimise performance
Experience working cross functionally with Business Development, Clinical, and Operations teams to deliver study outcomes
Experience contributing to budget development, bid defence activities, and scope management
Willingness to travel as required (approximately 25%)
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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 degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field
- Proven experience in client engagement, account management, or customer service
- Excellent leadership and team management skills
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Experience in developing and executing client engagement strategies
- Willingness to travel as required (approximately 25%)
ICON plc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
