Clinical Trial Liaison

Job title: Clinical Trial Liaison

About the Role As a Clinical Trial Liaison at Icon, you will lead investigator engagement, manage site relationships across trials and therapeutic areas, and drive enrollment and study delivery. You will act as a scientific ambassador to investigators, ensuring protocol understanding, scientific rationale, and patient eligibility. You will collaborate cross-functionally to optimize feasibility, site performance, and regulatory readiness.

What You'll Do

• Lead investigator engagement from identification and qualification through enrollment, and support database lock and study closeout.
• Develop and sustain strategic, high-trust relationships with investigators across trials and therapeutic areas.
• Influence enrollment by co-creating tailored recruitment strategies aligned with site capabilities, patient population realities, and study objectives.
• Proactively identify opportunities to reach new patients and accelerate enrollment at priority sites, including novel site models and community-based initiatives.
• Capture and elevate critical insights from sites to optimize feasibility, protocol design, and study conduct.
• Lead site-level strategy and risk planning to ensure strong and predictable enrollment and data delivery; monitor performance metrics to anticipate issues and intervene.
• Drive inspection readiness as a continuous discipline across sites; provide oversight for vendor monitoring and escalate risks.
• Collaborate with vendor partners and cross-functional teams to resolve operational barriers, ensuring timely delivery and quality.
• Maintain advanced understanding of local treatment paradigms and standard of care to influence strategic country/site selection and protocol localization.
• Act as a key liaison between field teams, vendors, and investigators, ensuring alignment, shared purpose, and continuous knowledge transfer.
• Partner with field team colleagues to elevate the investigator and site experience, improving enrollment outcomes and investigator relationships.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; strong preference for scientific, clinical, or health-related fields.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in clinical research or the pharmaceutical industry, with direct interaction with healthcare professionals and clinical sites.
• Oncology experience required.
• Willingness to travel up to 60-80% during peak times; travel expectations may vary.
• Location: West Coast; comfortable working in a field-based role.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, data-informed decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Working knowledge of regulatory requirements and site monitoring.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: USD 110,520.00 – 138,150.00 per year.
• Bonus, commission, stock options, and benefits; actual compensation determined by location, experience, education, and skill level. You may be eligible for a bonus, stock compensation, and commissions in some cases depending on your role and performance.
• Benefits programs include: various annual leave entitlements, health insurance options, retirement planning, Global Employee Assistance Programme LifeWorks (24-hour access to a network of professionals), life assurance, and flexible country-specific optional benefits.