Supervisor, Sample Management
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The Supervisor, Sample Management oversees biological sample operations supporting clinical trials at ICON. The role coordinates scientific operations delivery, resolves issues, and develops team capability. It manages laboratory workflows from sample receipt through shipment, ensures regulatory and quality compliance, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to support timely, accurate processing. The position also leads and trains staff while maintaining inventory controls and sample documentation.
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Supervisor, Sample Management (Night Shift), Farmingdale, New York (NY)
ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.
As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.
As a Supervisor, Sample Management at ICON, you will oversee the management, processing, and distribution of biological samples within clinical trials.
What You Will Do:
Your focus will be on coordinating scientific operations delivery, resolving issues, and developing team capability.
Key responsibilities include:
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Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the sample management laboratory, including sample receipt, processing, storage, and shipment.
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Ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, quality standards, and internal policies related to sample management.
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Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and accurate sample processing in support of clinical trial activities.
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Managing inventory control and tracking systems to maintain proper documentation and chain of custody for all samples.
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Providing leadership and training to sample management staff, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and quality assurance.
Your Profile:
You will have solid scientific operations experience, with the ability to manage competing priorities and develop your team.
Required qualifications and experience:
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Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline, such as biology, chemistry, or a related field.
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Experience in sample management, biobanking, or laboratory operations within a clinical research environment.
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Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and best practices related to sample handling and storage.
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Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
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Detail-oriented with a strong commitment to maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.
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:
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Various annual leave entitlements
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A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
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Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
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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.
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Life assurance
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Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site (https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits) to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here (https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations)
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
Salary range: $62,376.00-$77,970.00
Bonus, Com, Stock, Benefits & Disclaimer verbiage:
Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, education/training, and skill level. You may be eligible for a bonus, stock compensation and commissions in some cases depending on your role and performance.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,128 open Clinical Research jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$62–78K/yr
- New York median$93–153K/yr75 salary ranges
- US median$116–198K/yr558 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $70K, is 48% below the New York median midpoint ($136K) — in the lowest quarter of Clinical Research salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 135 open Clinical Research jobs in New York and 1,128 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine20 open
- NYU Langone Medical Center20 open
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals12 open
- Experience
- Clinical Research postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (779 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 460 of the 1,128 open Clinical Research jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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