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Senior Clinical Scientist

Montreal, Quebec
Senior Level
full_time

Top Benefits

Annual leave entitlements
Health insurance options
Retirement planning benefits

About the role

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

As a Senior Clinical Scientist you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organization, powered by healthcare intelligence.

The Senior Clinical Scientist will work with the Study Medical Monitor/Study Clinical Scientist and provide scientific and clinical support from ongoing early and late-stage clinical trials with an emphasis on protocol-specific, in-life clinical data monitoring activities. This role will also serve as a point of contact for CROs, investigators and study staff in day-to-day safety monitoring under the guidance of the Study Medical Monitor. This individual will report into Global Clinical Operations and will interface directly with the Study Clinical Scientist and other cross-functional team members (including Clinical Development, Global Clinical Operations, Data Management, Biometrics, Patient Safety, Clinical Pharmacology and Biomarkers,) to support clinical study execution and clinical data monitoring.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Support Study Clinical Scientist in medical surveillance and medical monitoring activities under the guidance of the Medical Monitor; conduct daily medical surveillance of laboratory & ECG alerts including review of eligibility criteria as appropriate.
  • Provides analytical support of clinical trial data, including assessment and follow-up of issues relating to protocol conduct and/or individual subject safety.
  • Responsible for gathering, reviewing, and providing preliminary assessments of medical surveillance events to the Study Clinical Scientist and the Study Medical Monitor. Generate study safety events trackers, periodic medical monitoring reports and safety reviews in line with the needs of the study.
  • Participate in cross-functional study execution team activities relating to clinical data review.
  • Contribute to ICFs, training documents, and other clinical and regulatory documents under the direction of the Medical Monitor/Study Clinical Scientist as applicable.
  • Interact with internal and external stakeholders (study sites, vendors, etc.) in support of clinical trial objectives related to subject safety and clinical data monitoring; responds to or triages medical and safety-related questions for appropriate actions.
  • Performs other duties as assigned related to clinical programs.

You Are

  • Life sciences degree (BS, MS, or Ph.D.) with clinical or pre-clinical research experience in the pharmaceutical industry or healthcare setting.
  • Previous experience as a Clinical Scientist within a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or CRO environment.
  • Experience in analysis and interpretation of clinical data (including safety and efficacy); working knowledge of GCP and clinical trial execution.
  • Experience working with clinical trial sites.
  • Experience in all stages of drug development.
  • Ability to make independent, timely and appropriate decisions.
  • Ability to handle multiple projects at a time and have a strong attention to detail Excellent oral and written communication skills and solid computer/analytical skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, team-based matrix environment and to function independently as appropriate.
  • High level of organizational and project management skills.
  • Flexible to accommodate changes in team and project needs.

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 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

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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About Nextrials, Inc.

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Founded by bio-pharmaceutical researchers in 1999, Nextrials offers today’s most advanced e-clinical tools and services for speeding the delivery of lifesaving drugs and medical devices to market. An industry-recognized innovator in web-based software solutions for the life sciences industry, Nextrials’ goal is to dramatically improve the application of technology to clinical trial management. To this end, it has developed the only truly cohesive solution that melds sophisticated clinical trial management functionality with Electronic Data Capture (EDC) in a single, integrated package. Prism™ enables researchers to derive more value from clinical data in real-time, accelerating the time to market for new drugs and devices, improving trial safety and monitoring, substantially lowering development costs. Prism has been globally deployed in North and South America, Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Nextrials defines itself as a life sciences company that provides technology solutions for clinical research, not a technology vendor who sells to this vertical market. With this philosophy, Nextrials is well matched to assist even the smallest of research and development teams with a product that can be implemented quickly, cost effectively and without the need for expensive in-house IT staff – a good match for small and mid-size contract research organizations, academic institutions and pharmaceutical/biotechnology/medical device companies. In addition, Prism can be employed on a project by project basis or as an enterprise implementation.

As a lead innovator in the EDC industry, Nextrials is at the forefront of developing and improving the next generation of EDC technology – the integration of Electronic Health Record data (EHR) into EDC utilizing RFD – Retrieve Form for Data capture. Nextrials is the only fully integrated EDC system which allows for ease of RFD implementation.