Clinical Research Associate

Job Description • Field-based CRA position • Reporting to Clinical Operations Manager • Excellent development opportunities, reward and benefits package Job Overview Advance AbbVie's pipeline by striving for excellence in clinical research, turning science into medicine for our patients and leveraging advanced capabilities to drive industry leading performance. Partners with study teams, AbbVie internal R&D stakeholders, investigators, and site staff for meaningful and effective engagements positioning AbbVie as the partner of choice in clinical trials. Focus on site clinical research that ensures appropriate conduct of the trial while driving improvement in data integrity, compliance, overall study performance and customer experience. Responsibilities • Considered as the Primary Sponsor Point of contact for the investigative site. Experience in providing contextual information on the clinical trials, connecting stakeholders to the investigative sites and strengthening AbbVie's positioning • Aligns, trains and motivates the site staff and principal investigator on the goals of the clinical trial program, protocol, and patient treatment principles for the trial ensuring a trusted partnership. Able to support, guide, and mentor junior personnel on Site Management activities • Conducts site evaluation, site training, routine on-site and off-site monitoring, and site closure monitoring activities with compliance to the protocol and monitoring plans, in accordance with applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and quality standards, ensuring safety and protection of study subjects • Understanding of site engagement and ability to customize site engagement strategy for assigned study/ies and critically apply new strategies as needed. Gather local/site insights and utilize site engagement tools to report/track progress and measure impact of that strategy • Able to connect the study protocol, scientific principles and clinical trial requirements to the day-to-day clinical trial execution activities. Understanding to generate and ensure effective recruitment and retention techniques/plans based on the patient disease journey Develop solid knowledge of therapeutic area, asset and clinical landscape / patient journey to enable successful patient recruitment and overall protocol compliance." • May participate/lead in global/local task forces and initiatives. Responsible for activities as assigned by manager • Responsible for continuous risk-assessment proactively, and in collaboration with Central Monitoring team, monitor activities conducted by clinical sites to detect early overall study performance or patient safety issues. Superior ability to think critically to resolve site risk signals while having robust understanding of site processes to drive study execution. Ensures preventative and corrective action plans are put into place, as needed, to mitigate risk and promote compliance • Independently Identifies, evaluates and recommends new/potential investigators/sites on an on going basis demonstrating expert understanding and decision making. Potential sites may be identified through networking or internal AbbVie requests to assist in the placement of planned clinical studies with qualified investigators. …