Clinical Trials Assistant

Job description

About Us
IQVIA is a global leader in healthcare intelligence. With a global team of 50,000+ working across 100 countries, we harness insights, commercial and scientific depth, and executional expertise to empower clients to achieve some of their most important goals: Improving clinical, scientific and commercial results. Realizing the full potential of innovations, and, ultimately, creating solutions for our clients to drive healthcare forward.

A career with IQVIA connects you to a great opportunity to achieve professional success and impact healthcare around the world.

The Role
We're looking for CTAs to join our core clinical site management team and play a key part in supporting our site based CRAs and internal study start-up (RSU) function. We need individuals who can demonstrate an understanding of the CTA role with applicable knowledge of the essential clinical trial documents. If you can demonstrate the willingness to embed yourself in the position then there are opportunities to grow your career in a variety of ways. If you're happy working in a dynamic, deadline driven environment then don't hesitate to apply.

Purpose
You will be providing administrative support to clinical projects under direction of designated clinical team members and assist with general trial administrative functions as required.

Responsibilities
· Assist Clinical Research Associates and Regulatory Study Start-Up with accurately updating and maintaining clinical systems that track site compliance and performance within project timelines.
· Assist the clinical team in the preparation, filing, and archiving of clinical documentation and reports according to the scope of work and standard operating procedures.
· Assist with periodic review of study files for completeness.
· Assist CRAs and RSU with preparation, handling and distribution of Clinical Trial Supplies and maintenance of tracking information.
· Assist with the tracking and management of Case Report Forms (CRFs), queries and clinical data flow.
· Act as a central contact for the team for designated project communications, correspondence and associated documentation.
· May accompany CRAs on site visits to assist with clinical monitoring duties upon completion of required training and with required approval.
· May perform assigned administrative duties to support team members with clinical trial execution.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
We need you to have awareness of applicable clinical research regulatory requirements- ICH-GCP, along with familiarity with the documents used in clinical trials (TMF/ISF). You should be able to demonstrate willingness to work in a fast paced environment juggling workload with time pressures. Therefore effective time management and organisational skills are paramount.

Protocol, study and IQVIA SOP training will be given along with all the necessary tools to complete your work as effectively as possible.

The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients is key and you should have good written and verbal communication skills as well as working knowledge of computer applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

We invest in keeping our teams stable so workload is consistent and we offer genuine career development opportunities for those who want to grow as part of the organisation. A career here gives you the opportunity to work on ground-breaking medicines right at the forefront of new medicines development

Awards
·  FORTUNE Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list for the third year in a row.
·  Recognised by the 2016 Scrip Awards as the Best Full-service Provider Contract Research Organization (CRO).
·  Awarded the 2016 Eagle Award from the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) for the fourth consecutive year. A site-nominated award recognising contract research organizations (CRO) and biopharmaceutical sponsors dedicated to building positive relationships with research sites through leadership, professionalism and integrity.
·  IQVIA named in The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) 2017 Global Outsourcing 100® List which recognizes the world's best service providers across a range of industries.

IQVIA is an equal opportunity employer. We make employment decisions based on qualifications and merit. We prohibit discrimination based on any unlawful consideration such as age, race, national origin, gender or other "protected status."