Clinical Research Associate

Employment Type: Full-time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

Position Overview

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Responsibilities

• Performs and coordinates different aspects of the clinical monitoring and site management process.
• Conducts remote or on-site visits to assess protocol and regulatory compliance and manages required documentation.
• Manages procedures and guidelines from different sponsors and/or monitoring environments.
• Acts as a site processes specialist, ensuring that the trial is conducted in accordance with the approved protocol, ICH-GCP guidelines, applicable regulations and SOPs to guarantee subjects' rights, well-being, and data reliability.
• Develops collaborative relationships with investigational sites and client company personnel.
• Assists the Project Manager or Clinical Team Manager on assigned projects and will take a lead role where required.
• Supports the line manager to mentor, train, and contribute to the development of junior clinical team members.
• Monitors investigator sites with a risk-based monitoring approach: applies root cause analysis (RCA), critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to identify site processes failures and corrective/preventive actions to bring the site into compliance and decrease risks.
• Ensures data accuracy through SDR, SDV, and CRF review as applicable through on-site and remote monitoring activities.
• Assesses investigational product through physical inventory and records review.
• Documents observations in reports and letters in a timely manner using approved business writing standards.
• Escalates observed deficiencies and issues to clinical management expeditiously and follows all issues through to resolution.
• Maintains regular contact between monitoring visits with investigative sites to confirm that the protocol is being followed, that previously identified issues are being resolved, and that the data is being recorded in a timely manner.
• Conducts monitoring tasks in accordance with the approved monitoring plan.
• Participates in the investigator payment process.
• Ensures shared responsibility with other project team members on issues/findings resolution.
• Investigates and follows up on findings as applicable.
• Provides trial status tracking and progress update reports to the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) as required.
• Ensures study systems are updated per agreed study conventions (e.g., Clinical Trial Management System, CTMS).
• Performs QC checks of reports generated from the CTMS system where required.
• Participates in investigator meetings as necessary.
• Identifies potential investigators in collaboration with the client company to ensure the acceptability of qualified investigative sites.
• Initiates clinical trial sites according to the relevant procedures to ensure compliance with the protocol and regulatory and ICH GCP obligations, making recommendations where warranted.
• Ensures trial close-out and retrieval of trial materials.
• Ensures that required essential documents are complete and in place, according to ICH-GCP and applicable regulations.
• Conducts on-site file reviews as per project specifications.

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Company Information

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Our PPD clinical research portfolio spans laboratory, digital, and decentralized clinical trial services.