Medical Monitor
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The Medical Monitor works in a sponsor-dedicated model at ICON Strategic Solutions, contributing medical and scientific expertise to project teams. The role leads medical affairs delivery across a portfolio, sets standards, develops a team, and provides strategic guidance and operational oversight. It also supports business development and ensures medical and safety monitoring activities meet ethical, legal, and regulatory standards.
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Medical Monitor
At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise.
As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide.
As a Medical Director at ICON, you will drive medical initiatives within project teams, guiding strategic direction and decision-making processes, and offer expert medical and scientific guidance, leveraging therapeutic expertise to inform project development.
What You Will Do:
You will lead medical affairs delivery across your portfolio, setting standards and developing your team.
Key responsibilities include:
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Providing strategic medical leadership and guidance on project teams.
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Offering expert medical and scientific consultation throughout project lifecycles.
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Ensuring compliance with ethical, legal, and regulatory standards in medical and safety monitoring activities.
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Representing the Medical Affairs Department in business development initiatives.
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Providing operational oversight within the Medical Affairs Department as needed.
Your Profile:
You will bring significant medical affairs experience, with a track record of building high-performing teams and delivering results.
Required qualifications and experience:
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Medical degree (MD or equivalent) with specialization in relevant therapeutic area preferred.
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Proven track record of medical leadership and consultation within pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.
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Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and ethical standards in clinical research.
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Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to represent the department effectively.
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Demonstrated ability to provide operational management in the absence of senior management.
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Willingness to travel as required (approximately 10%)
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.
Are you a current ICON Employee? Please click here (https://wd3.myworkday.com/icon/d/task/1422$1235.htmld) to apply
How this job compares
Set against the 1,917 open Medical Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$228–375K/yr1,092 salary ranges
- US median$130–145/hr167 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,917 open Medical Director jobs across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- Medical Director postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (1,050 postings).
- Education
- 1,410 of the 1,917 open Medical Director jobs (74%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 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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