Clinical System Lead

ICON Clinical Research; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 1,629,000 - 2,353,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave entitlements

Health insurance options

Retirement planning offerings

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Flexible benefits by country

Job summary

ICON Clinical Research seeks a Clinical System Lead to direct CDS project teams handling clinical data systems across trials. This remote role supports cross-country studies, collaborates with vendors, and ensures timelines and budgets are met.

You will coordinate system setup, monitoring, and integration while guiding teams through UAT, quality checks, and client communications. English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of clinical data management experience including implementation and management of clinical data systems.
• Technical understanding of relational databases and ability to create data flow diagrams.
• Applied skills in project management with timelines, resources and financial tracking.
• Understanding of protocol content and data collection requirements.
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements with an agile approach.
• Ability to lead teams in UAT of configured System solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or local equivalent; applications in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more CDS project teams for system setup, maintenance and close-out.
• Support sales by providing expertise to Business Development and Bid defenses.
• Peer review study team technical documentation and outputs.
• Act as a contact point for internal and external customer teams on studies.
• Lead project kick-off meetings and perform QC peer reviews of CRFs.
• Track issues affecting dates, scope or budget and escalate as needed.
• Negotiate timelines and deliverables with clients and departments.
• Oversee system integration setup and vendor interactions as needed.
• Provide input on revenue recognition and forecast units/hrs to CDS PM.
• Travel ~15% domestically or internationally.

Skills

Clinical data management

Relational databases

Project management

Data flow diagrams

Agile mindset

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Clinical System Lead

ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.

As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.

We have an incredible opportunity for a Clinical System Lead to join ICON’s Full-Service IOD Clinical Data Science team. The Clinical System Lead (CSL) will lead and direct one or more Clinical Data Science (CDS) project teams engaged in the initiation, planning, set up, maintenance, control, and closing of systems used in clinical trial projects.

Location: Remote

• Canada

• Mexico

• Colombia

• United States

What you will be doing:

• Support sales efforts by participating in and providing expertise to Business Development and assist with and present at Bid Defense meetings

• Perform peer review of study team technical documentation and work output

• Act as a contact point for internal and external customer teams on assigned studies

• Assist in leading project kick off (internal and external) meetings

• Perform quality control peer review of CRFs

• Track and keep functional management and those responsible for project management informed of any issues that might affect project target dates, scope, or budget and escape potential problems

• Work independently and with other project leads, as needed, to negotiate timelines and key deliverables with clients and/or external customers and departments

• Contribute to the oversight and management of system integration set up and vendor interactions where needed

• Understand project level revenue recognition/forecasting process and provides input regarding actual and forecasts units/hrs (revenue and resources) to the CDS PM

• Travel (approximately 15%) domestic and/or international

Your profile:

• 2+ years of clinical data management experience including implementation and management of clinical data systems

• Technical understanding of relational databases and how they function and be able to create medium to complex data flow diagrams

• Applied skills in project management, including the predictive elements of timelines, resource requirements, and financial tracking

• Detailed understanding of protocol content and interpretation of data collection requirements, both considering user experience and underlying dataset structures

• Ability to react quickly and adapt to changing requirements, processes, and timelines in an agile manner

• Ability to lead teams in the internal UAT of configured System solutions

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree or local equivalent

• Please submit all applications in English *

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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, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized 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, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site (https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits) 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 (https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations)