About this role
Pediatric Site Engagement Specialist
About the role
Site Engagement Specialist - Pediatrics
At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise.
As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide.
The Pediatric Site Engagement Specialist (Europe) will support the CGRP Pediatric Migraine Program by accelerating site identification, site activation, investigator engagement, recruitment, and enrollment across European clinical trial sites.
This is a highly field-based position requiring extensive engagement with investigators and research sites throughout Europe, with a minimum of 50% travel expected.
The successful candidate will leverage existing relationships with children's hospitals, pediatric neurology centers, pediatric headache programs, and pediatric research institutions to identify high-potential study sites, strengthen investigator engagement, and improve study execution.
Key responsibilities include:
- Identify and evaluate new pediatric migraine study sites across Europe.
- Build and maintain relationships with pediatric investigators, children's hospitals, pediatric headache centers, and study site personnel.
- Support site feasibility, startup, activation, and enrollment activities.
- Identify and address barriers to recruitment, enrollment, and participant retention.
- Support rescue activities for underperforming sites.
- Gather investigator feedback and site intelligence to inform study execution and recruitment strategy.
- Partner with study teams to prioritize opportunities and mitigate enrollment risks.
- Conduct frequent in-person site visits and investigator engagements throughout Europe.
Your Profile:
Required qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences (MD/PharmD preferred)
- Minimum 10 years of relevant clinical research experience
- Demonstrated experience supporting pediatric clinical trials, pediatric research sites, or pediatric investigator networks.
- Experience working directly with investigators and clinical trial sites.
- Experience supporting site identification, feasibility, startup, recruitment, and enrollment activities.
- Established relationships with children's hospitals, pediatric neurology programs, pediatric headache centers, or pediatric research institutions across Europe.
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.
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