Scientific Leadership Research Coordinator

ICON plc•Blue Bell, SD
•Remote

About The Position

At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise. As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide. As a SLRC at ICON, you will manage clinical trial operations activities, supporting your team and stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes across our clinical programs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 2+ years of pharmaceutical or healthcare-related experience in internal or external scientific research operations
  • Strong leadership, project management, and organizational awareness skills
  • Strong leadership, resilience, collaborative and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to coordinate across divisions
  • Ability to lead without direct authority over a continuum of stakeholders
  • Research database proficiency
  • Experience with Microsoft Office applications

Nice To Haves

  • Congress management experience
  • Experience supporting scientific engagement activities and stakeholder coordination within Medical Affairs or Scientific Affairs organizations

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that meaningful and collaborative scientific exchange through engagement activities is achieved to globally impact our strategies.
  • Optimal management of the operations of client’s Investigator Studies Program.
  • Manage Congress Operations activity for the TA.
  • Project manages and/or supports investigator-initiated studies (ISP), the scientific congresses, and Research & Development (R&D) Congress support for the TA.
  • Contribute to the development and refinement of our TA Scientific and Medical Affairs Strategic Plan for Our Company Research Laboratories.
  • Ensure that the oversite of these activities is achieved to globally impact the scientific strategy for TA.
  • Co-leads with ISP.
  • Chair (Executive Director of Scientific Affairs) and supports the ISP committee with the review, decision making, and operational management of research proposals.
  • Provides optimal oversight of the TA Company ISP operations to ensure that the research submitted by investigators is compliantly and efficiently managed.
  • Supports logistical and strategic planning of R&D activities at scientific congresses, such as daily debriefs and scientific leader engagements.
  • Co-leads with the EDSA and is planning manager with the EDSA for all disease area scientific engagements.
  • Provides congress support and is responsible for developing and updating the scientific leadership strategy.

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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