North Chicago, IL
12 days ago
Clinical Research Associate II

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.


Job Description

Purpose

"Advance AbbVie's pipeline by striving for excellence in clinical research, turning science into medicine for our patients and leveraging new 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 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, provides contextual information on the clinical trials, connects stakeholder to the investigative sites and strengthens AbbVie’s positioning.Aligns, trains and motivates the site staff and principal investigator with support as needed on the goals of the clinical trial program, protocol, and patient treatment principles for the trial ensuring a trusted partnership.Conducts site evaluation, site training, routine on-site and off-site monitoring, and site closure activities with support as needed, in compliance to the protocol and monitoring plans and accordance with applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to quality standards in conducting clinical research, ensuring safety and protection of study subjects.Customize site engagement strategy for assigned study (ies) with support as needed. . Gather local/site insights and utilize site engagement tracking tools, to report/track progress and measure impact of that strategy."Fundamental level of competency connecting the study protocol, scientific principles and clinical trial requirements to the day-to-day clinical trial execution activities. Evaluate 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."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. 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 using a customer cenIdentifies, evaluates and recommends new/potential investigators/sites with support as needed from more experienced Site Monitors.Ensures quality of data submitted from study sites and assures timely submission of data, including appropriate reporting and follow-up for all safety events by site personnel.Ensures audit and regulatory inspection readiness at assigned clinical site at all times.Manages investigator payments as per executed contract obligations, as applicable.
Qualifications

Qualifications

Appropriate tertiary qualification in health related disciplines (e.g., Medical, Scientific, Pharmacy, Nursing) preferred or experience or equivalent work experience.Clinically related experience, in clinical research coordinating or data management preferred.Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic area indications is preferred with the ability to understand and apply scientific concepts as they relate to the conduct of clinical trials.Knowledge on existing and emerging local regulatory and legal requirements, ICH/GCP Guidelines and applicable policies.Able to work collaboratively and cross functionally to develop and sustain working relationships.Demonstrate planning and organizational skills and the ability to work effectively and efficiently in a dynamic environment with competing projects and deadlinesAbility to leverage technology, tools and resources to provide customer centric support based on the health of the site.Interpersonal skills with strong written, verbal, active listening and presentation skills, with ability to establish and leverage site relationships and trusted partnerships through engagement, motivation, and training.Ability to use functional expertise with appropriate guidance, leverage critical thinking skills and apply good judgement to address clinical site issues.Acts with integrity in accordance with AbbVie code of business conduct and leadership values. Self-motivated individual focused on delivering timely and quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
Additional Information

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The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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