Lead, Clinical Trial Liaison
Pubblicato il 19-10-2026 - Icon Clinical in Varese
Overview
In this role you lead the Clinical Trial Liaison (CTL) teams across multi-CTL studies, ensuring high-quality investigator and site support while driving staff development. You will translate complex science for project teams, build trusted site relationships, and tackle barriers to recruitment and data quality. The position blends hands-on trial support with people leadership in a global, matrixed environment. You will shape site engagement strategies and contribute to tools and materials to improve study conduct and performance. This is a pivotal, impact-focused role within ICON’s mission to accelerate patient access to new medicines.
Retribuzione / Benefits
- competitive base salary
- performance related incentives
- health and wellbeing programmes
- retirement and pension plans
- life assurance and disability coverage
- employee assistance programmes and development opportunities
Responsabilità
- Lead CTL activities on multi-CTL studies, coordinating workstreams and ensuring quality and timelines
- Manage, mentor, train and coach CTL team members for career development
- Translate scientific concepts and protocol details for project teams, investigators and site staff
- Create educational materials to communicate trial science and ensure site understanding
- Build and maintain relationships with investigators and site personnel to support study conduct
- Identify scientific and operational barriers to recruitment, retention and data quality and address them
- Identify and optimize pre-screening strategies based on site feedback and patient pathways
- Provide detailed, timely reports on investigator/site interactions and insights for project teams
- Contribute to tools, materials and strategies supporting site engagement and performance
- Participate in business development and represent the CTL function as needed
Requisiti fondamentali
- Doctoral-degree level qualification such as PhD, MD or PharmD in a relevant discipline
- Substantial experience in clinical research, medical affairs or field-based roles involving investigators and trial sites
- Strong understanding of clinical trial design, GCP and site operations
- Ability to interpret complex medical information and explain protocol concepts clearly
- Proven relationship-building credibility with clinicians, investigators and site teams
- Demonstrated leadership and people-management capability including coaching and mentoring
- Excellent communication, presentation, influencing and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a global, matrixed environment
- relationship-building
- communication
- presentation
- clinical trial design
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- site operations