Senior CRA

Why Join Clinical Functional Service Partnerships (CFSP)?

At IQVIA, our Clinical Functional Service Partnership (CFSP) model gives you the best of both worlds: the variety and sponsor-level exposure of working as an embedded member of a leading pharmaceutical or biotechnology team, backed by the stability, global infrastructure, and career support of IQVIA. You'll develop deep, specialist expertise on a dedicated program, with the flexibility to expand across sponsors and therapeutic areas as your career progresses - and the security of a long-term IQVIA career even as individual programs evolve.

Through our long-standing partnerships with the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, you'll contribute to clinical research programs that bring innovative treatments to patients worldwide, working across all phases of development and a broad range of therapeutic areas, within a culture that supports flexibility, continuous learning, and wellbeing.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits in accordance with study protocols, GCP, ICH guidelines, and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Ensure investigational sites maintain high standards of patient safety, data integrity, protocol compliance, and study quality.

• Build and maintain effective relationships with investigators and site personnel, providing ongoing guidance, training, and support throughout the study lifecycle.

• Monitor study progress, including regulatory documentation, patient recruitment and enrollment, data query resolution, and site performance metrics.

• Collaborate with sites to implement and optimize patient recruitment and retention strategies to support study timelines.

• Maintain accurate, complete, and inspection-ready study documentation, including Investigator Site Files (ISF), Trial Master Files (TMF), monitoring reports, and follow-up communications.

• Identify, assess, and appropriately escalate study risks, site issues, and quality concerns while driving timely resolution.

• Partner closely with cross-functional study teams to support successful study execution and delivery of project objectives.

• Mentor and support junior clinical team members through coaching, training, and co-monitoring activities, as applicable.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and support study start-up, maintenance, close-out, and site financial activities as required.

What you’ll bring

• University degree in Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 4 years minimum on-site monitoring experience of clinical trials within a CRO, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare environment.

• Strong knowledge of GCP, ICH guidelines, and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Preferrable experience in a sponsor-dedicated or cFSP environment.

• Knowledge of patient recruitment and study start-up activities is preferred.

• Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams.

• Willingness to travel within the assigned region (up to 40-60% of working time).

Please note this position cannot offer visa sponsorship, candidates must hold right to work in UK & Ireland.

Build Your Future with IQVIA

As a Senior CRA at IQVIA, you'll apply your clinical research expertise to drive meaningful outcomes for patients and sponsors around the world. You'll work on innovative studies across a variety of therapeutic areas, collaborate with industry-leading professionals, and take on increasingly strategic responsibilities…