Clinical Research Associate

Job description

Clinical Research Associate Department

Clinical Development Centre Spain Location: Madrid, Spain Your impact begins here As a Clinical Research Associate in CDC Spain, you will be a trusted partner for your clinical trial sites, helping studies deliver with quality, pace and a clear focus on patients. Our CRA vision combines strong site partnerships, smarter ways of working and risk-based quality management. You will bring this vision to life through proactive site ownership, sound judgement and close collaboration with the trial team.

What you’ll bring A Master’s degree in Life Sciences or a related field. Experience in clinical trial monitoring, or in a relevant role within the pharmaceutical industry or a CRO. Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial processes and applicable regulatory requirements. The ability to deliver high-quality, compliant trial execution, with a clear focus on patient safety and data integrity. Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

Strong communication, planning and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and take accountability for results. Willingness to travel as required.

What you’ll do Partner with your sites

understand their needs and barriers, build effective relationships and drive agreed actions to support recruitment, retention and trial milestones.

Protect patients and trial quality

perform monitoring according to study requirements, use data and risk insights to prioritise activities, and follow issues through to resolution.

Take ownership and collaborate

anticipate challenges, propose solutions and act within your responsibilities, aligning with the Trial Manager and wider team when shared decisions are needed.

Improve how we work

use approved digital tools, share site insights and good practices, and contribute to cross-trial initiatives in areas such as site engagement, quality and digitalisation, with opportunities to lead or co-lead according to your experience. Who you’ll work with You will join CDC Spain and work closely with site teams, Trial Managers, Study Start-up, quality colleagues and other local and global partners to keep trials moving and sites inspection-ready.

What you can expect here Your expertise will be valued and your judgement trusted. You will have clear expectations, support to develop your skills and opportunities to shape better ways of delivering clinical trials.

Salary

For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 42,560.00 to 74,480.00 EUR, corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits

The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks. Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here. Start now Your impact begins today. If you are ready to help clinical trials in Spain deliver with quality and pace, apply for the Clinical Research Associate role by 13 November. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.