Assoc Site Activation Manager - Global Study Leadership
About this opportunity
Assoc. Site Activation Manager (Study Start Up) – Global Study Leadership
At IQVIA, our Assoc. Site Activation Managers play a critical role in bringing innovative medicines to patients faster. You'll lead global study start-up and site activation activities, partnering with sponsors, investigative sites and cross-functional teams to accelerate patient enrolment, drive successful study execution and influence site activation strategy across complex regional and global clinical trials.
Why Join Global Study Leadership?
Global Study Leadership is a global, full-service team delivering clinical trials through both therapeutically aligned and customer-dedicated delivery models. You'll have the opportunity to support studies across a diverse portfolio including Oncology, Rare Disease, CNS, Cardiovascular, Immunology, Respiratory, Cell & Gene Therapy, Infectious Disease, Ophthalmology and Women's Health while partnering with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors worldwide.
Working alongside experienced project leaders and global study teams, you'll help shape site activation strategies, navigate complex regulatory environments and deliver innovative solutions that support successful study delivery. Supported by a collaborative global network, mentorship, flexible ways of working and AI-enabled technology and data-driven insights, you'll have exceptional opportunities to broaden your expertise, expand your leadership impact and accelerate your career within one of the world's leading clinical research organizations.
What You'll Be Doing
As a key member of the project leadership team, you'll be responsible for the successful delivery of site activation activities across regional, multi-regional and global studies, ensuring regulatory, contractual, quality, timeline and customer objectives are achieved.
Key Responsibilities
Lead site activation activities from study award through site activation, ensuring studies are positioned for successful patient enrolment and on-time delivery
Develop and execute Site Activation Management Plans aligned to study strategy, scope, timelines and customer requirements
Partner with sponsors, sites and cross-functional teams to drive study start-up, regulatory submissions, ethics approvals, contracting and country activation activities
Provide strategic guidance on regulatory requirements, submission strategies and site activation approaches across diverse global markets
Manage study timelines, risks, budgets, scope and operational performance, proactively identifying and resolving critical path challenges
Build strong relationships with sponsors and investigative sites, delivering an exceptional customer experience and fostering long-term partnerships
Drive issue resolution, stakeholder alignment and decision-making across countries and regions to ensure successful study execution
Support bid defence activities, proposal development and study start-up strategy discussions for new business opportunities
Mentor and support colleagues, contribute to process improvements and champion operational excellence across Global Study Leadership.
What We're Looking For
Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Healthcare, or a related scientific discipline
5+ years of experience in site activation, study start-up, regulatory affairs, clinical operations, or a related clinical research environment
Experience leading regional, multi-country, or global site activation activities within a CRO, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology environment
Strong knowledge of clinical trial regulations, ICH-GCP guidelines, ethics submissions, site activation processes and clinical trial agreements
Proven success managing study timelines, risks, quality, budgets and operational performance across complex studies
Demonstrated ability to build trusted sponsor and site relationships and effectively manage stakeholders in a global environment
Strong negotiation, communication, leadership, problem-solving and project management skills
Ability to navigate complex regulatory environments and deliver innovative solutions that accelerate study start-up
Passion for advancing clinical research and helping bring life-changing therapies to patients worldwide
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com
IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Clinical Development role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 391 comparable Manager Clinical Development roles across 68 biopharma companies.
Salary context
121 of 391 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 391 comparable roles
+ 36 more countries
Seniority mix
391 of 391 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
37 of 391 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Open in 4 locations
Notify me about similar jobs
Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.