CRA - FSP - Italy

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

This is a great opportunity for CRA's currently working within the life science sector for pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies or CRO's to work with a world-leading CRO across multiple sponsors, various protocols and therapy areas.

These roles can be performed remotely for CRA's based close to our clinical 'hubs': Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples. Travel requirement will be national across Italy.

Essential Functions:

• Monitors investigator sites with a risk-based monitoring approach: applies root cause analysis (RCA), critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify site processes failure and corrective/preventive actions to bring the site into compliance and decrease risks.
• Ensures data accuracy through SDR, SDV and CRF review as applicable through on-site and remote monitoring activities.
• Assess investigational product through physical inventory and records review.
• Documents observations in reports and letters according to timelines using approved business writing standards.
• Escalates observed deficiencies and issues to clinical management expeditiously and follows all issues through to resolution. May need to maintain regular contact between monitoring visits with investigative sites to confirm that the protocol is being followed, that previously identified issues are being resolved and that the data is being recorded in a timely manner.
• Participates in the investigator payment process. Ensures a shared responsibility with other project team members on issues/findings resolution. Investigates and follows-up on findings as applicable.
• Participates in investigator meetings as necessary. Identifies potential investigators in collaboration with the client company to ensure the acceptability of qualified investigative sites.
• Initiates clinical trial sites according to the relevant procedures to ensure compliance with the protocol and regulatory and ICH GCP obligations, making recommendations where warranted. Performs trial close out and retrieval of trial materials.