Senior CRA

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

AbbVie is seeking a Senior Clinical Research Associate (Senior CRA) to support clinical trials.   Situated in Stockholm, in this role you will work with hospitals and private clinics across Sweden region as part of a collaborative Nordic team. The role offers direct involvement in clinical research operations, site engagement, and study execution. The position requires strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to build trusted relationships with sites.

The purpose of the role is to advance AbbVie’s pipeline by striving for excellence in clinical research, turning science into medicine for patients, and leveraging advanced capabilities to drive strong performance. The Senior CRA will partner with investigators and site staff to ensure effective trial delivery, data integrity, compliance, patient safety, and a positive site experience. The Senior CRA will partner with investigators and site staff to ensure effective trial delivery, data integrity, compliance, patient safety, and positive site experience.

Key responsibilities:

Serve as a main point of contact for investigative sites

Build and maintain strong working relationships with site staff and investigators

Conduct site engagement calls and regular site contact

Support site monitoring activities to ensure protocol compliance and quality conduct of the trial

Participate in site evaluation, site training, routine monitoring, and site closure activities

Help sites understand the study protocol, treatment principles, and operational expectations

Encourage recruitment and retention by supporting patient identification and site engagement

Use local knowledge, central monitoring insights, and CRM tools to track progress and site performance

Identify, assess, and recommend potential investigators and sites

Ensure data quality, timely data submission, and follow-up of safety events

Always support audit and inspection readiness

Follow up on corrective and preventive actions where needed

Contribute to global and local initiatives

Mentoring of junior CRAs

What the role involves:

The role combines site relationship management, scientific understanding, operational execution, and patient recruitment support. The Senior CRA will need to work across several protocols at once, and there may be periods of high intensity depending on study activity and site needs. While there will be regular site visits, the role also includes office-based work, answering site questions, supporting the global study team, and managing site issues proactively

Qualifications

You are today working as a Senior CRA or alternatively ready to take the next step to a Senior CRA role.  The ideal candidate is thorough, self-motivated, collaborative, and customer focused. You are comfortable in a fast-paced, but highly regulated environment, enjoy working with people, and can think critically to solve issues.   In addition, you have:

Degree in pharmacy, biomedicine, nursing, medicine, or another science-related discipline

Knowledge of therapeutic areas and the ability to apply scientific concepts to clinical trial conduct

Strong planning, organisational, and time-management skills

Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with competing priorities and deadlines

Strong interpersonal skills - written, verbal, and listening skills.

Comfortable using systems, tools, and technology to support site needs

Able to build trusted relationships through engagement, training, and motivation

Fluent in Swedish and English

Valid driver’s licence

Willingness to travel (up to 50%).

Nice to have but not essential:

Experience in clinical research monitoring of investigational drug or device trials

Familiarity with onsite and offsite monitoring and risk-based monitoring approaches

Understanding local regulatory and legal requirements, ICH/GCP guidelines, and applicable policies.

AI literacy.

Additional Information

This is a hybrid office-based position at the wonderful Forskaren building in Stockholm.  Applications will close on 6th November so please submit at your earliest convenience.  We are not working with recruitment agencies for this position, so please direct your application to us directly for review.

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