Clinical Research Associate (Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ES)
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Clinical Research Associate
Department: Clinical Development Centre Spain
Location: Madrid, Spain
Your impact begins here
As a Clinical Research Associate in CDC Spain, you will be a trusted partner for your clinical trial sites, helping studies deliver with quality, pace and a clear focus on patients.
Our CRA vision combines strong site partnerships, smarter ways of working and risk-based quality management. You will bring this vision to life through proactive site ownership, sound judgement and close collaboration with the trial team.
What you’ll bring
A Master’s degree in Life Sciences or a related field.
Experience in clinical trial monitoring, or in a relevant role within the pharmaceutical industry or a CRO.
Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial processes and applicable regulatory requirements.
The ability to deliver high-quality, compliant trial execution, with a clear focus on patient safety and data integrity.
Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
Strong communication, planning and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and take accountability for results.
Willingness to travel as required.
What you’ll do
Partner with your sites: understand their needs and barriers, build effective relationships and drive agreed actions to support recruitment, retention and trial milestones.
Protect patients and trial quality: perform monitoring according to study requirements, use data and risk insights to prioritise activities, and follow issues through to resolution.
Take ownership and collaborate: anticipate challenges, propose solutions and act within your responsibilities, aligning with the Trial Manager and wider team when shared decisions are needed.
Improve how we work: use approved digital tools, share site insights and good practices, and contribute to cross-trial initiatives in areas such as site engagement, quality and digitalisation, with opportunities to lead or co-lead according to your experience.
Who you’ll work with
You will join CDC Spain and work closely with site teams, Trial Managers, Study Start-up, quality colleagues and other local and global partners to keep trials moving and sites inspection-ready.
What you can expect here
Your expertise will be valued and your judgement trusted. You will have clear expectations, support to develop your skills and opportunities to shape better ways of delivering clinical trials.
Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 42,560.00 to 74,480.00 EUR, corresponding to the level of the position.
The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.
Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.
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Start now
Your impact begins today. If you are ready to help clinical trials in Spain deliver with quality and pace, apply for the Clinical Research Associate role by 13 November. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
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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
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How we calculate "similar"
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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.