Experienced Clinical Research Associate - Sponsor Dedicated

Syneos Health; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or car allowance

Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Syneos Health is looking for an Experienced Clinical Research Associate in Toronto, Ontario. This role involves overseeing clinical research studies, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and protocols. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree or RN in a related field, and excellent communication skills.

The position may require travel of up to 75%. Benefits include a company car, health benefits, and flexible paid time off. This is an opportunity to work within a collaborative environment dedicated to advancing healthcare.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or RN in a related field or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage required travel of up to 75% on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

• Perform site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and close‑out visits ensuring compliance.
• Evaluate overall site performance and provide recommendations.
• Document activities via confirmation letters, trip reports, and communication logs.

Skills

Good Clinical Practice/ICH Guidelines

Excellent communication skills

Demonstrated good computer skills

Ability to manage required travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree or RN in a related field

Job description

Experienced Clinical Research Associate - Sponsor Dedicated

Overview

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full‑Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. When we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives, we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

• Performs site qualification, site initiation, interim monitoring, site management activities and close‑out visits (performed on‑site or remotely) ensuring regulatory, ICH‑GCP and/or Good Pharmacoepidemiology Practice compliance. Uses judgment and experience to evaluate overall performance of site and site staff and to provide recommendations regarding site‑specific actions; immediately communicates or escalates serious issues to the project team and develops action plans.
• Verifies the process of obtaining informed consent has been adequately performed and documented for each subject/patient, as required/appropriate. Demonstrates diligence in protecting confidentiality of each subject/patient and assesses factors that might affect subject/patient’s safety and clinical data integrity at an investigator/physician site such as protocol deviation or violations and pharmacovigilance issues.
• Per the Clinical Monitoring/Site Management Plan, assesses site processes, conducts source document review of appropriate site source documents and medical records, verifies required clinical data entered in the case report form is accurate and complete, and applies query resolution techniques remotely and on‑site to drive query resolution to closure within agreed timelines.
• May perform investigational product (IP) inventory, reconciliation, reviews storage and security, verifies the IP has been dispensed and administered to subjects/patients according to the protocol, and verifies issues or risks associated with blinded or randomized information related to IP.
• Routinely reviews the Investigator Site File for accuracy, timeliness and completeness, reconciles contents of the ISF with the Trial Master File, and ensures the investigator/physician site is aware of the requirement of archiving essential documents in accordance with local guidelines and regulations.
• Documents activities via confirmation letters, follow‑up letters, trip reports, communication logs and other required project documents as per SOPs and Clinical Monitoring Plan. Supports subject/patient recruitment, retention and awareness strategies, and enters data into tracking systems as required.
• For assigned activities, understands project scope, budgets and timelines; manages site‑level activities and communication to ensure project objectives, deliverables and timelines are met and can quickly adapt to changing priorities.
• May act as primary liaison with study site personnel, or in collaboration with Central Monitoring Associate, and ensures all assigned sites and project‑specific site team members are trained and compliant with applicable requirements.
• Prepares for and attends investigator meetings and/or sponsor face‑to‑face meetings, participates in global clinical monitoring/project staff meetings, and attends clinical training sessions according to project specific requirements.
• Provides guidance at the site and project level toward audit readiness standards and supports preparation for audit and required follow‑up actions.
• Maintains a working knowledge of ICH‑GCP Guidelines and other applicable guidance, relevant regulations and company SOPs/processes, and completes assigned training as required.
• Additional responsibilities include site support throughout the study lifecycle from site identification through close‑out, knowledge of local requirements for real‑world late‑phase study designs, chart abstraction activities and data collection, collaboration with sponsor affiliates, medical science liaisons and local country staff, and training junior staff when requested. Proactively suggests potential sites based on local knowledge of treatment patterns, patient advocacy and health care provider associations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or RN in a related field or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice/ICH Guidelines and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated good computer skills and ability to embrace new technologies.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage required travel of up to 75% on a regular basis.
• US ONLY: As part of your employment with Syneos Health, you may be deployed to sites that require certain medical and other personal information to gain facility access. You are required to comply with any site requests as a condition of employment with Syneos Health.

Benefits

The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, health benefits to include medical, dental and vision, company match 401(k), eligibility to participate in an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, eligibility to earn commissions or bonuses based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off and sick time. Eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work.

Salary Range

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role.

Additional Information

Tasks, duties and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the job description. The company will determine what constitutes equivalent to the qualifications described above. No employment contract is created by this description. The company complies with all obligations imposed by legislation of each country in which it operates, including the EU Equality Directive and the Americans with Disabilities Act, and will provide reasonable accommodations when appropriate.

Summary

Roles within Clinical Monitoring/CRA are responsible for overseeing and ensuring the integrity of clinical research studies by monitoring data and processes from a centralized location. This includes conducting remote monitoring of trial sites to verify compliance with regulatory requirements and clinical protocols, utilizing data analytics and risk‑based monitoring techniques to identify potential issues and trends, and collaborating with site teams to develop and implement tools, procedures and processes that enhance quality monitoring and support overall success of clinical trials.