Clinical Research Associate I - Southern California (Dermatology)

AbbVie; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in California seeks a skilled clinical research professional to serve as the primary contact for investigative sites, coordinating trial activities and ensuring protocol compliance and patient safety.

You will train site staff, monitor adherence to GCP/ICH guidelines, manage site risk, recruit and retain patients, and collaborate with central monitoring to optimize study performance while upholding AbbVie's standards and customer-focused approach.

Qualifications

• Appropriate tertiary qualification in health related disciplines (Medical, Scientific, Nursing) preferred or experience or equivalent work experience.
• Clinically related experience, preferably in clinical research coordinating or data management.
• Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic area indications with ability to apply scientific concepts to clinical trials.
• Knowledge of local regulatory and legal requirements, ICH/GCP Guidelines and AbbVie policies.
• Able to work collaboratively and cross functionally to develop and sustain working relationships; strong planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to leverage technology and CRM tools to support site engagement; use of critical thinking and good judgement.
• Interpersonal skills with strong written, verbal, active listening and presentation abilities to build site partnerships.
• Acts with integrity in accordance with AbbVie code of business conduct and values.

Responsibilities

• Considered as the primary point of contact for the investigative site, provides contextual information on the clinical trials and strengthens AbbVie's positioning.
• Aligns, trains and motivates the site staff and principal investigator on trial goals, protocol and patient treatment principles.
• Conducts site evaluation, site training, routine and site closure monitoring under supervision, compliant with GCP/ICH and AbbVie SOPs.
• Customize site engagement strategy for assigned studies and report progress using CRM tools.
• Evaluates site risk signals and supports risk mitigation to drive study execution and data integrity.
• Ensures data quality and timely reporting of safety events; supports investigator payments per contracts where applicable.
• Ensures audit and regulatory inspection readiness at assigned clinical sites.
• Identifies, evaluates and recommends new investigators/sites under supervision.
• Maintains knowledge of therapeutic area and patient journey to enable recruitment and protocol compliance.
• Promotes collaboration across functional teams to deliver timely and quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Job description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Advance AbbVie's pipeline by striving for excellence in clinical research, turning science into medicine for our patients and leveraging new advanced capabilities to drive industry leading performance.
Partners with the investigator and site staff for meaningful and effective engagements positioning AbbVie as the choice in clinical trials.
Focus on site clinical research that ensures appropriate conduct of the trial while driving improvement in data integrity, compliance, overall study performance and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Considered as the primary point of contact for the investigative site, provides contextual information on the clinical trials, connects stakeholder to the investigative sites and strengthens AbbVie’s positioning.
• Aligns, trains and motivates the site staff and principal investigator under supervision on the goals of the clinical trial program, protocol, and patient treatment principles for the trial ensuring a trusted partnership.
• Conducts site evaluation, site training, routine, and site closure monitoring activities under supervision, in compliance to the protocol and monitoring plans and accordance with applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to quality standards in conducting clinical research, ensuring safety and protection of study subjects.
• Customize site engagement strategy for assigned study (ies) under supervision. Gather local/site insights and utilize site engagement tools such as the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, to report/track progress and measure impact of that strategy.
• Fundamental level of competency connecting the study protocol, scientific principles and clinical trial requirements to the day-to-day clinical trial execution activities. Evaluate and ensure effective recruitment and retention techniques/plans based on the patient disease journey.
  Develop solid knowledge of therapeutic area, asset and clinical landscape / patient journey to enable successful patient recruitment and overall protocol compliance.
• Responsible for continuous risk-assessment proactively, and in collaboration with Central Monitoring team, monitor activities conducted by clinical sites to detect early overall study performance or patient safety issues. Ability to think critically to resolve site risk signals while having robust understanding of site processes to drive study execution.
• Ensures preventative and corrective action plans are put into place, as needed, to mitigate risk and promote compliance using a customer centric approach.
• Identifies, evaluates and recommends new/potential investigators/sites under supervision and support from more experienced CRAs.
• Ensures quality of data submitted from study sites and assures timely submission of data, including appropriate reporting and follow-up for all safety events by site personnel.
• Ensures audit and regulatory inspection readiness at assigned clinical site at all times.
  Manages investigator payments as per executed contract obligations, as applicable.

• Appropriate tertiary qualification in health related disciplines (Medical, Scientific, Nursing) preferred or experience or equivalent work experience.
• Clinically related experience, preferably in clinical research coordinating or data management.
• Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic area indications is preferred with the ability to understand and apply scientific concepts as they relate to the conduct of clinical trials.
• Knowledge on existing and emerging local regulatory and legal requirements, ICH/GCP Guidelines and applicable policies.
• Able to work collaboratively and cross functionally to develop and sustain working relationships.
  Demonstrate planning and organizational skills and the ability to work effectively and efficiently in a dynamic environment with competing projects and deadlines
• Ability to leverage technology, tools and resources to provide customer centric support based on the health of the site. Ability to use functional expertise with appropriate guidance, leverage critical thinking skills and apply good judgement to address clinical site issues.
• Interpersonal skills with strong written, verbal, active listening and presentation skills, with ability to establish and leverage site relationships and trusted partnerships through engagement, motivation, and training.
• Acts with integrity in accordance with AbbVie code of business conduct and leadership values. Self-motivated individual focused on delivering timely and quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employer remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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