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The Trial Project Manager is a key leader within Clinical Operations, responsible for driving the successful planning and execution of GCO-supported clinical studies. Acting as the product owner for the Clinical Trial Team (CTT), this role ensures strong cross-functional alignment, patient recruitment strategy, proactive operational planning, and high-quality study documentation. The Trial Project Manager also contributes to the broader Clinical Operations community and may support study start-up activities as needed.
What You Will Be DoingLead end-to-end operational delivery of assigned clinical studies, ensuring timelines, quality, and recruitment goals are met.
Serve as the CTT product owner, driving agile ways of working and enabling clear, focused team responsibilities.
Guide study-level planning, decision-making, and contingency/risk management across cross-functional teams.
Support study start-up activities to enable timely site activation and readiness.
Promote operational excellence in the development of global protocols, study reports, and other study documentation.
Deliver high-quality patient recruitment outcomes, clinical data, and study documentation.
Collaborate as an active member of the Clinical Operations community within PSP and work closely with COPH and SL.
Foster strong cross-functional communication and alignment across GCO sub-teams.
Proven leadership skills in a matrix environment with multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams.
Strong negotiation, communication, and conflict resolution abilities.
Enterprise mindset with the ability to balance team, study, and organizational priorities.
Experience working on Clinical Trial Teams (CTT) and understanding of GCO sub-team structures.
Demonstrated ability to drive proactive planning with effective contingencies and risk management.
Deep knowledge of clinical trial operations, study documentation processes, and recruitment planning.
Highly collaborative, solutions-oriented, and comfortable navigating complex environments.
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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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.
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