Start-up Associate

Is it your burning desire to kick-start a career in Clinical Trials… NOW?

Labcorp Drug Development has supported the pharmaceutical industry to develop more medicines worldwide than any other company, including the top 50 best-selling drugs on the market today.

Wen, you join Labcorp Drug Development, every day will bring you new chances to help save the lives of millions of people around the world.

If you share our passion to help make the miracles of medicine a reality if you have been trying to start a career in clinical trials and experienced how challenging this is, then we have the right job for you.

The job:

Our Startup Associate jobs are the entry point to develop a long-term career in the Clinical Start-up field (at Labcorp Drug Development, with time, you can become an international Project Manager and beyond).

These are office-based jobs in Brussels, Belgium.

The aim of ethical reviews in clinical trials is to protect participants, and in this job, you will learn everything about Ethics Committees and third body Submissions in the Benelux region. 

We’ll invest in your development from day one so you are up-to-speed as soon as possible, and we’ll make sure you have all the training you need to gradually grow your skills. Liaising with sites to collect all essential & investigator documents; quality review to avoid mistakes; building submission packages, etc., will have no secrets for you. In fact, our team in Brussels is known for our carefully crafted coaching program.

After one year, you will know you were successful if you:

• Are able to perform submissions of (non) substantial amendments or even initial applications independently
• Follow up with sites for Essential Documents Collection on your own, so you are an effective first link in a chain that helps to avoid delays later on.
• Adapt to a changing priorities environment, so you organize different projects able to meet sometimes competing for the timeliness

Join us and see why more than 90% of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies are repeat customers.

We can offer you not only a job but a stable, long-term international career.

Responsibilities:

• Collect, track and perform a quality review of all essential & investigator documents required for effective and compliant study site activation and maintenance
• Ensure that all assigned maintenance and Start-up activities are on track and in accordance with client expectations, ICH/GCP, SOPs, budget, quality, and applicable laws and guidelines
• Serve as the primary contact for investigative sites and ensure the documents required are collected in a timely manner.
• With guidance from line manager and experienced colleagues, adapt Informed Consent Forms and other patient-facing material to country-specific requirements.
• May support / assist the contract negotiation process under the supervision of an experienced colleague or line manager.
• Escalate study issues appropriately and in a timely fashion.
• Update study documents when there are changes in study personnel/study amendments.
• Contribute to the preparation of submissions to IRB/IEC with appropriate supervision.
• Ensure high-quality documents are filed and systems are updated on an ongoing and timely basis making Covance ready for an audit at any time.
• Undertake tasks delegated by senior team members, depending upon country and situational requirements with proper supervision.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Is this you?

Please note that we can only consider candidates for this job to be full-time and based from our office in Brussels.

Level of education preferred: Minimum Health-related Bachelor's university degree.

This is an international environment: you can fluently write, read and speak English, French, and Dutch.

Ideally, you bring some experience in Start-up / Clinical Trials (i.e.: Study Nurse, Study Coordinator, Data Management…), however new starters with a scientific, healthcare background are welcome. We´ll train you.