Clinical Research Associate I
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Clinical Research Associate advancing AbbVie’s innovative medicines through clinical-trial site monitoring. Supporting investigator sites, recruitment, compliance, data integrity, and patient safety across the US.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for investigative sites and provide contextual information on clinical trials
- Connect stakeholders with investigative sites and strengthen AbbVie’s positioning
- 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 activities under supervision
- Ensure compliance with protocols, monitoring plans, regulations, GCPs, ICH Guidelines, SOPs, and clinical research quality standards
- Customize site engagement strategies and use CRM tools to track progress and measure impact
- Connect study protocols, scientific principles, and clinical trial requirements to daily execution activities
- Evaluate and support effective patient recruitment and retention plans
- Develop therapeutic-area, asset, clinical-landscape, and patient-journey knowledge
- Conduct continuous risk assessment with the Central Monitoring team to identify study performance and patient safety issues
- Resolve site risk signals and implement preventative and corrective action plans
- Identify, evaluate, and recommend investigators and clinical sites under supervision
- 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 contract obligations, as applicable
Requirements:
- Appropriate tertiary qualification in health-related disciplines (Medical, Scientific, Nursing) preferred, or equivalent work experience
- Clinically related experience, preferably in clinical research coordinating or data management
- Knowledge of therapeutic-area indications preferred
- Ability to understand and apply scientific concepts to clinical-trial conduct
- Knowledge of local regulatory and legal requirements, ICH/GCP Guidelines, and applicable policies
- Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally
- Planning and organizational skills for a dynamic environment with competing projects and deadlines
- Ability to leverage technology, tools, and resources for customer-centric site support
- Ability to apply functional expertise, critical thinking, and good judgment to clinical-site issues
- Strong written, verbal, active-listening, and presentation skills
- Ability to establish and leverage site relationships through engagement, motivation, and training
- Integrity consistent with AbbVie’s code of business conduct and leadership values
- Self-motivated and focused on timely, quality outcomes
- Willingness and ability to travel 75% of the time
- Candidates from the Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast regions and near a major airport strongly preferred
Benefits:
- Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Eligibility to participate in short-term incentive programs
- Remote work
- Equal opportunity employer
- Reasonable accommodation for US & Puerto Rico applicants















