Senior Manager, Feasibility & Site Activation

Senior Manager, Feasibility & Site Activation

Location: Sofia, Prague, Dublin, Warsaw, Bucharest, Barcelona, Madrid, Reading, Swansea

Reference: JR157058

Categories: Study Start Up

Description

About the role

Senior Manager, FSA - Poland, Bulgaria, Czech, UK, Ireland - home or office based ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.

What You Will Do You will provide strategic leadership across feasibility and site activation operations, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery through a team of FSA Managers while supporting broader business and organisational objectives. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading regional or global FSA Managers responsible for feasibility, country and site strategy, regulatory activation, and study start-up delivery.
• Setting the strategic direction for FSA operations across multiple studies, programmes, or portfolios and ensuring alignment with organisational priorities.
• Driving performance through managers by establishing clear objectives, monitoring operational metrics, and ensuring proactive risk identification and mitigation.
• Partnering with senior functional leaders, project teams, and customers to shape start-up strategies and support successful clinical trial execution.
• Supporting business development activities, including proposals, bid defences, customer governance meetings, and strategic growth initiatives.
• Leading organisational change, process optimisation, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, scalability, and quality across FSA.
• Building leadership capability within the function by coaching, mentoring, and developing FSA Managers and strengthening succession pipelines.
• Ensuring effective resource planning, workforce strategy, and capacity management to meet current and future business needs.
• Acting as a senior escalation point for complex operational, customer, and people-related matters.

Your Profile: You will be an experienced people leader with demonstrated success in leading teams within a complex global clinical research environment.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific, healthcare, or life sciences discipline.
• Extensive experience in clinical research ideally with significant expertise in feasibility, site selection, country strategy, regulatory activation, and study start-up.
• Proven success managing managers or multiple teams within a CRO, pharmaceutical, or related environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large global or regional organisations through periods of growth, transformation, and operational change.
• Strong strategic planning and business management skills with the ability to translate organisational objectives into operational execution.
• Experience partnering with senior customers and executive stakeholders, including participation in governance and business development activities.
• Strong financial, resource planning, and workforce management capabilities.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and leadership skills with the ability to build engagement and accountability across dispersed teams.
• Demonstrated track record of driving operational excellence, standardisation, and measurable performance improvement.
• Willingness to travel as required (approximately 15%).

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.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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Location details Location: Sofia, Prague, Dublin, Warsaw, Bucharest, Barcelona, Madrid, Reading, Swansea Reference: JR157058 Categories: Study Start Up Remote Working: Remote or Office

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