Clinical Site Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Oversee the execution of studies and ensure operational excellence within Abbott Cardiovascular therapies.

• Act as a resource for protocol implementation, product and disease-state knowledge, procedure assistance, procedure outcomes, clinical trial enrollment, as well as ICH-GCP and clinical research applications.

• Lead the processes of site nomination, qualification, initiation, training, and retraining.

• Supervise site recruitment and data collection performance, which includes enrollment, discrepancy resolution, and compliance.

• Monitor site initiation, periodic visits, and close-out visits to ensure regulatory compliance, adherence to Good Clinical Practice, and data accuracy.

• Build and maintain a productive clinical territory while identifying qualified clinical trial sites and investigators.

• Sustain relationships with principal investigators, research coordinators, regulatory personnel, and legal staff.

• Offer technical support to customers and field staff.

• Facilitate effective communication between clinical sites and Abbott clinical personnel.

• Formulate site-specific enrollment and compliance strategies and provide constructive feedback on site performance.

• Attend study procedures and follow-ups or ensure that trained personnel are present.

• Gather essential documents, obtain missing data, review adverse events and protocol deviations, and resolve data queries.

• Evaluate source documentation and investigational-site data for accuracy and completeness.

• Timely report findings from monitoring visits and maintain comprehensive monitoring records.

• Train site and Abbott staff for clinical trials and commercial product launches.

• Deliver clinical and technical expertise for clinical trial procedure support.

• Collaborate with commercial partners regarding product education, launches, customer training, technical inquiries, and troubleshooting.

• Adapt to shifting priorities and competing demands.

• Maintain an area of clinical and technical expertise, acting as a local resource.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, health science, nursing, or a related discipline.

• A minimum of 1 year of increasingly responsible relevant clinical trial experience in the cardiovascular sector.

• Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time.

• Proficiency in catheterization lab and operating room protocols and procedures (preferred).

• Core level Abbott certification and/or equivalent proficiency.

• Exceptional oral and written communication abilities.

• Independent problem-solving skills with the capability to make decisions.

• Ability to stay updated on clinical knowledge and Abbott product information, competitive positioning, and published scientific and economic evidence.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for career development within an international organization.

• Complimentary medical coverage under the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan for eligible employees.

• Retirement savings plan with significant employer contributions.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Freedom 2 Save program for student debt assistance.

• FreeU educational benefit towards completing a bachelor’s degree.

• Abbott's health and wellness benefits.

• An Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering employee diversity.