[Remote] Clinical Trial Liaison / Clinical Research Lead
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ICON Strategic Solutions is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization focused on accelerating the delivery of new medicines and treatments to patients. The Clinical Trial Liaison role involves managing investigator relationships, leading clinical trial strategies, and ensuring effective collaboration across functions to enhance enrollment and study execution.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for the full spectrum of investigator engagement from identification and qualification through enrollment, and support database lock, and study closeout
- Serve as a clinical trial scientific ambassador, ensuring investigators deeply understand protocol intent, scientific rationale, and patient eligibility requirements
- Develop and sustain strategic, high-trust relationships with investigators that span trials and therapeutic areas
- Influence enrollment by co-creating tailored recruitment strategies aligned with site capabilities, patient population realities, and study objectives
- Proactively find opportunities to reach new patients, accelerate enrollment and increase impact at priority sites, including for example, novel site models, community-based research initiatives etc
- Capture and elevate critical insights from sites to optimize feasibility, protocol design, and study conduct
- Lead site-level strategy and risk planning to ensure strong and predictable enrollment and data delivery
- Leverage performance metrics to anticipate issues, intervene decisively, and maintain momentum toward clinical milestones
- Drive inspection readiness as a continuous discipline across sites
- Collaborate across functions and with vendor partners to resolve operational barriers, ensuring delivery with speed and quality
- Maintain advanced understanding of local treatment paradigms and standard of care to influence strategic country/site selection and protocol localization
- Provide oversight and quality assurance for vendor monitoring, escalating risks proactively
- Where applicable, lead end-to-end management of Post-Marketing Safety Studies in compliance with local regulations
- Cultivate a portfolio of strategically aligned, high-impact investigators who consistently prioritize client trials
- Enable an exceptional investigator experience by being a responsive, knowledgeable, and valued scientific partner
- Collaborate cross-functionally (e.g., Medical, Clinical, Study Delivery) to align on trial and site priorities, troubleshooting challenges with urgency and creativity
- Conduct data-informed site prospecting and prioritization, contributing to trial competitiveness and regional strategic execution
- Maintain scientific fluency and therapeutic expertise to lead meaningful, solutions-focused discussions with site personnel
- Act as a key liaison between field teams, vendors, and investigators, ensuring alignment, shared purpose, and continuous knowledge transfer
- Partner closely with field team colleagues to elevate the investigator and site experience, ensuring seamless collaboration and improving enrollment outcomes and Investigator relationships
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent; strong preference for scientific, clinical, or health-related fields
- Minimum 5 years of experience in clinical research or pharmaceutical industry with experience directly interacting with or working with HCPs and clinical sites
- Open to up to 60-80% travel during peak times (travel will vary)
- Oncology experience required (lung cancer experience preferred)
- Location US Southeast
Benefits
- 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
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