Associate Director Informaticist
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The Associate Director Informaticist supports the design of clinical programs and trials by combining internal and external data, analyses, and insights to inform asset profiles, program strategy, and trial designs. The role leads approaches to program design and data taxonomies, promotes standardization, and collaborates with asset teams and cross-functional partners to support data-driven, risk-based decisions and more efficient planning and execution.
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Full job description
Senior Clinical Systems Lead
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.
The purpose of the Associate Director Informaticist role is to support the design of clinical programs and trials by bringing together internal and external data (e.g., prevalence data, real world data and analytics, electronic Clinical Outcome Assessments, and Schedule of Activities) analyses and insights to develop and inform asset profile, program strategy, and trial designs, while driving excellence and optimization, enabling more efficient planning and execution.
What You Will Do:
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Responsible for leading the approach to program design, placement decisions, and related considerations (e.g., scaling of Decentralized Clinical Trials, Value Based Research principles, and enabling goals for diverse representation in clinical trials, etc.)
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Responsible for developing and leading the approach to data taxonomies in support of eCOA and SoA designs and related considerations
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Responsible for driving standardization in design within and across therapeutic areas via utilization of taxonomies
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Responsible for communicating insights for strategies that can optimize trial and program design for time, value, cost, and/or risk considerations while creating accessibility and pathways for participation in clinical trials
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Collaborate with asset team to bring data and insights to support asset strategy, program, and trial design decisions
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Anticipate and ensure completion of modeling and scenario needs by applying clinical development, TA, and analytics expertise
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Support the use of real-world data and collaborate cross functionally to bring to inform design
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Promote data-driven and risk-based decision making
Your Profile:
Required qualifications and experience:
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Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific or health-related field Minimum 5 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, drug development, and/or related fields
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Therapeutic expertise and knowledge of the clinical research landscape; ability to acquire and maintain expertise to support portfolio needs
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.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,464 open Clinical Research jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Pennsylvania median$165–231K/yr54 salary ranges
- US median$26–38/hr181 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 104 open Clinical Research jobs in Pennsylvania and 1,464 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- Merck12 open
- University of Pennsylvania12 open
- ICON Clinical Research (this employer)10 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Clinical Research postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,100 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 569 of the 1,464 open Clinical Research jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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