Clinical Study Team Lead

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We're proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development

The Clinical Study Team Lead (CSTL) is responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of clinical studies, ensuring they are feasible, high quality, on time, and within budget. The role provides strong clinical development and operational leadership, contributing to study design and execution in alignment with broader program and portfolio strategies. As an experienced project manager and matrix leader, the CSTL leads cross-functional teams across complex studies and programs, oversees timelines and budgets, supports effective resourcing through collaboration with functional leadership, and drives proactive risk management and operational excellence across the study lifecycle.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Lead cross-functional study teams to deliver clinical studies on time, within budget, and to quality standards, ensuring alignment with program and business objectives.

• Own overall study planning, execution, timelines, budgets, and operational performance across all functions.

• Drive effective team operations, communication, governance, and decision-making, including issue resolution and escalation as needed.

• Partner with functional leadership to ensure optimal resourcing, team effectiveness, and operational alignment.

• Provide quality oversight by ensuring inspection readiness, monitoring quality metrics, and driving remediation activities.

• Serve as the single point of accountability for study-level reporting, metrics, and operational transparency.

• Lead proactive risk identification, mitigation planning, and continuous risk management throughout the study lifecycle.

• Guide teams through governance milestones and key decision points to support on-time delivery of study and development objectives.

• Represent the study at internal leadership and cross-functional forums, ensuring alignment and visibility.

• Contribute to broader program activities as needed, including governance support, strategic initiatives, and cross-functional execution efforts.

​Your Profile:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific, clinical, or business discipline (advanced degree preferred)

• 10+ years of relevant experience in clinical research or clinical trial execution

• Extensive experience in global clinical trial operations and clinical trial conduct, with strong knowledge of GCP, regulatory, and clinical processes

• Demonstrated senior-level study/project management and cross-functional leadership experience

• Proven ability to build, manage, and deliver clinical trial budgets

• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities

• Excellent project management and operational execution skills

• Effective communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills

• Ability to engage, influence, and communicate with senior leaders and governance bodies

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, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised 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, subsidised 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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