About this opportunity
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity:
Our Core Lab business unit currently has an opportunity for a Clinical Research Associate. This role is based remote in the United States near a major airport or in an Abbott Office approved.
Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
What You’ll Work On:
As a Clinical Research Associate (CRA), you will support clinical trial sites from study start-up through closeout, ensuring studies are conducted in compliance with protocols, regulatory requirements, and company procedures.
This role reports to the Clinical Manager and partners with Clinical Project Teams and Operations leadership. The successful candidate will work in a regulated quality environment, manage assigned tasks and timelines, build cross-functional relationships, and contribute to study success under general supervision.
Key Responsibilities:
Conduct site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and closeout visits.
Provide training and support to investigators, study coordinators, and site staff.
Monitor protocol compliance, data quality, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements.
Review source documents and verify clinical study data for accuracy and completeness.
Ensure only eligible participants are enrolled in studies.
Manage and maintain study and regulatory documentation.
Monitor investigational product accountability and inventory.
Review adverse event reporting for accuracy and compliance.
Assess site performance, including patient recruitment and retention efforts.
Prepare monitoring reports and communicate findings, risks, and corrective actions.
Build strong relationships with clinical research sites and internal stakeholders.
Develop knowledge of applicable clinical research regulations and study types.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's (life sciences or clinical research preferred) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Minimum 1-year clinical research experience required.
Must be detail-oriented and efficient in time management.
Must have excellent written and verbal communication, organizational and presentation skills.
Must be able to work effectively with others.
Self-directed and able to work within a fast paced and constantly changing environment.
Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently.
Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
Travel: 40 %
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
Connect with us at abbott.com , on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/ , and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers .
The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Clinical Research role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 156 comparable Associate Clinical Research roles across 18 biopharma companies.
Salary context
35 of 156 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 156 comparable roles
+ 28 more countries
Seniority mix
156 of 156 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
20 of 156 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.
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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.