Feasibility Manager

At ICON, it’s our people that set us apart. Our diverse teams enable us to become a better partner to our customers and help us to fulfil our mission to advance and improve patients’ lives.

Our ‘Own It’ culture is driven by four key values that bring us together as individuals and set us apart as an organisation: Accountability & Delivery, Collaboration, Partnership and Integrity. We want to be the Clinical Research Organisation that delivers excellence to our clients and to patients at every touch-point. In short, to be the partner of choice in drug development.

That’s our vision. We’re driven by it. And we need talented people who share it.

If you’re as driven as we are, join us. You’ll be working in a dynamic and supportive environment, with some of the brightest and the friendliest people in the sector, and you’ll be helping shape an industry.

Job Description-Feasibility Manager (Pre-Award Strategy)
- Recognize, exemplify and adhere to ICON's values which centers around our commitment to People, Clients and Performance.
- As a Manager, the employee is expected to recognize the importance of and create a culture of process improvement with a focus on streamlining our processes adding value to our business and meeting client needs.
- Travel (approximately 20%) domestic and/or international as needed
- The Global Feasibility Manager shall manage and lead the process of clinical Feasibility strategy planning to support the pre-award proposal and bid defense process
- The Global Feasibility Manager interrogates all relevant data sources and leverages analytics tools to define the optimal country/site/patient delivery strategy for a particular study, including identification of key challenges and areas of opportunity
- In the course of duty the Global Feasibility Manager will maintain communication and relationships between all relevant parties to ensure that all intelligence is communicated clearly through text and/or presentation slides and utilised in order to make best data driven feasibility decisions regarding country selection, site and patient distribution and study delivery timelines:

- Relevant parties include, but are not limited to: Proposal teams; Project Managers; Patient Recruitment & Retention Specialists; Site Identification Managers; Site Identification Leads; Scientific Council; Therapeutically Aligned clinical teams (as assigned); Internal/external experts; Business Development Associates; Sponsors, Quality Assurance Associates
- The Global Feasibility Manager shall manage and support proposal and project teams as a technical Feasibility expert.

The remit includes, but is not limited to:

- Conduct evidence based feasibility by:

- Establishment of viability of proposed project through interrogation of internal and external performance metrics, e.g. enrollment rate benchmarking, competitive environment
- Establishment of viability of proposed project through interrogation of internal and external resources to establish demographics and data on patient populations and assess the level of opportunity within each country
- Establishment of viability of proposed project through country/site/patient scenario modelling and risk assessment
- Establishment of quality: that all collected data is of high quality, accurate and fully documented in the ICON Feasibility business systems
- Preparation of Feasibility strategy text for proposal document
- Preparation for and attendance at Bid Defense Meetings (by Telephone Conference or by attendance in person)
- Ensuring the Feasibility services of the group are clearly represented and employed to support strategic project planning (or potential preferred partner bidding)
- Supervise less senior Feasibility associates during Bid Defense (or potential preferred partner) meetings
- The Global Feasibility Manager shall perform as a functional lead with accountability for delivery of high quality Feasibility standalone services (awarded, contracted)
- Initiate, conduct, coordinate, analyse and report feasibility studies as contracted:

- On time
- On budget (managing staff resources)
- Meeting Sponsor objectives and expectations
- In coordination with the SiteID Lead per RACI
- Develop appropriate country and site selection plans and analyse/interpret results to provide protocol feedback and to make appropriate country and site recommendations based on objective analysis (ranking, for example)
- Document and track feasibility study results for future use
- Referral to patient recruitment and retention specialists for appropriate intelligence and strategies for accepted recruitment practices and plans
- Referral to study start up experts and/or late phase experts and/or other internal expert groups as indicated
- Ensure that any and all information gained during the early planning phase pre-award is completely transitioned to awarded projects as required
- Perform as an expert resource to project teams for requested feasibility services