Clinical Research Associate

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Clinical Research Associate advancing AbbVie’s innovative oncology medicines pipeline. Monitoring investigative sites, ensuring compliance, data integrity, patient safety, and recruitment performance.

Responsibilities:

  • Advance AbbVie’s clinical development pipeline through excellence in clinical research
  • Partner with investigators and site staff to establish meaningful and effective clinical-trial engagements
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for investigative sites
  • Provide contextual information on clinical trials and connect stakeholders with investigative sites
  • Align, train, and motivate site staff and principal investigators on trial goals, protocols, and patient-treatment principles
  • Conduct site evaluation, site training, routine monitoring, and site-closure monitoring in compliance with protocols, regulations, GCP, ICH Guidelines, AbbVie SOPs, and quality standards
  • Customize site-engagement strategies for assigned studies
  • Gather local and site insights and use CRM tools to track progress and measure impact
  • Connect study protocols, scientific principles, and clinical-trial requirements to day-to-day execution
  • Evaluate recruitment and retention techniques based on the patient disease journey
  • Develop therapeutic-area, asset, clinical-landscape, and patient-journey knowledge to support recruitment and protocol compliance
  • Mentor and train less experienced CRAs and provide development input
  • Participate in global or local task forces and initiatives
  • Perform manager-assigned activities
  • Conduct continuous risk assessment with the Central Monitoring team to identify study-performance or patient-safety issues
  • Resolve site risk signals and implement preventative and corrective action plans
  • Identify, evaluate, and recommend investigators and sites for clinical studies
  • Ensure quality and timely submission of site data, including safety-event reporting and follow-up
  • Maintain audit and regulatory inspection readiness at assigned sites
  • Manage investigator payments according to executed contracts, where applicable

Requirements:

  • Appropriate tertiary qualification in health related disciplines (Medical, Scientific, Nursing) preferred
  • Minimum of 1 year of clinically related experience
  • At least 6 months of clinical research monitoring experience for investigational drug or device trials
  • Familiarity with risk-based monitoring, onsite and offsite monitoring
  • Knowledge of therapeutic area indications preferred
  • Ability to understand and apply scientific concepts to clinical trial conduct
  • Advanced knowledge of local regulatory and legal requirements, ICH/GCP Guidelines, and applicable policies
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Strong planning and organizational skills; ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with competing projects and deadlines
  • Advanced ability to leverage technology, tools, and resources for customer-centric site support
  • Strong interpersonal skills and excellent written, verbal, active listening, and presentation skills
  • Ability to establish and leverage site relationships and trusted partnerships through engagement, motivation, and training
  • Ability to use functional expertise, critical thinking, and good judgment to address clinical site issues
  • Acts with integrity in accordance with AbbVie code of business conduct and leadership values
  • Self-motivated and focused on timely, quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment

Benefits:

  • Employees can work remotely
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Commitment to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, and serving the community