Site Specialist II

What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That's why we've made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family's needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family's well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

You will bring previous clinical research experience together with a strong understanding of site-level processes and European clinical trial requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, healthcare or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant clinical research experience.

• Previous experience in site support, site activation, study start-up, regulatory or clinical trial operations within a CRO, pharmaceutical company or similar clinical research environment.

• Hands-on experience working with EU CTR processes and requirements.

• Good understanding of clinical trial documentation, GCP and site-level regulatory requirements.

• Fluent Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple sites, deadlines and competing priorities.

• A proactive, solution-focused approach and confidence working with investigator sites and cross-functional teams.

• Experience working directly with clinical trial sites in Spain.

• Portuguese language skills.

Site Specialist - Barcelona, Spain - office or homebased

As a Site Specialist II at ICON, you will play a key role in supporting clinical trial sites in Spain, helping studies progress efficiently through start-up, activation and ongoing site management.

Working independently across assigned sites and studies, you will act as an important operational point of contact for sites and internal study teams, ensuring documentation, regulatory activities, systems and key milestones are managed accurately and in line with study requirements.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with hands-on EU Clinical Trials Regulation (EU CTR) experience who understands the requirements of working with clinical trial sites in Spain.

You will independently manage a range of site-level activities, supporting efficient study start-up and maintenance throughout the study lifecycle.

• Coordinating the collection, review and maintenance of essential site documentation, ensuring completeness, accuracy and compliance with study and regulatory requirements.

• Supporting site start-up and regulatory activities in accordance with EU CTR requirements.

• Acting as a key operational contact for Spanish investigator sites, providing guidance on documentation, systems, timelines and study processes.

• Tracking site progress, milestones and outstanding actions, ensuring information is accurately maintained within relevant clinical trial management systems.

• Working closely with Site Activation, Regulatory, Clinical Operations and other cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues that could impact site timelines.

• Supporting ongoing site maintenance activities throughout the study lifecycle.

• Proactively identifying potential delays or operational challenges and driving appropriate follow-up with sites and internal stakeholders.

• Contributing to process improvements and sharing best practices across the wider team.

• Providing guidance and support to more junior colleagues where appropriate.