Senior Site Management Lead - HYBRID
AbbVie
August 25, 2026
Remote friendly (North Chicago, IL)
United States
$124,500 - $236,500 USD yearly
Clinical Research and Development
Responsibilities:
- Provide direction and operational expertise for Clinical Site Management (CSM) integrity, quality, and timeliness across assigned studies.
- Serve as overall CSM functional study strategy leader and single point of accountability for study-level CSM deliverables from planning to closeout.
- Plan and drive study-level CSM strategic planning and deliverable completion by timelines using allocated resources.
- Lead site monitoring strategy (Site Monitoring Plan) and Site Engagement Strategy.
- Maintain study timelines across lifecycle; provide timely information to country teams to execute milestones.
- Drive site-level activities (site selection, activation, engagement, protocol adherence, closeout).
- Oversee monitoring activities with assigned SMLs to ensure quality deliverables, status tracking, and milestone adherence/acceleration.
- Drive CSM deliverables during data snapshots and database locks aligned to Data Cleaning Plan; ensure site closure per Site Closure Plan.
- Proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks; contribute to Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan (RAMP).
- Ensure site compliance, escalate issues, analyze trends for continuous improvement.
- Provide inputs for expected study-level CSM documents and drive TMF completeness for CSM artifacts.
- Ensure ongoing CSM Inspection Readiness activities are completed study start to close.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s (or equivalent OUS) in (para)medical or scientific field.
- 7+ years industry clinical research; includes 2+ years monitoring or project management (global study); 1+ year global project management.
- Preferred: initiation-to-completion experience across multiple study phases (Phase I in patients; Phase II/III) and multiple therapeutic areas/disease states.
- Strong technical/clinical trial management, communication, leadership, matrix influence.
- Knowledge of SOPs, ICH, global regulations, ethics/compliance.
- Excellent planning/organization; English fluency.
- Advanced Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote.
Benefits:
- Paid time off; medical/dental/vision insurance; 401(k) (eligible employees); long-term incentive program eligibility.
- Provide direction and operational expertise for Clinical Site Management (CSM) integrity, quality, and timeliness across assigned studies.
- Serve as overall CSM functional study strategy leader and single point of accountability for study-level CSM deliverables from planning to closeout.
- Plan and drive study-level CSM strategic planning and deliverable completion by timelines using allocated resources.
- Lead site monitoring strategy (Site Monitoring Plan) and Site Engagement Strategy.
- Maintain study timelines across lifecycle; provide timely information to country teams to execute milestones.
- Drive site-level activities (site selection, activation, engagement, protocol adherence, closeout).
- Oversee monitoring activities with assigned SMLs to ensure quality deliverables, status tracking, and milestone adherence/acceleration.
- Drive CSM deliverables during data snapshots and database locks aligned to Data Cleaning Plan; ensure site closure per Site Closure Plan.
- Proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks; contribute to Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan (RAMP).
- Ensure site compliance, escalate issues, analyze trends for continuous improvement.
- Provide inputs for expected study-level CSM documents and drive TMF completeness for CSM artifacts.
- Ensure ongoing CSM Inspection Readiness activities are completed study start to close.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s (or equivalent OUS) in (para)medical or scientific field.
- 7+ years industry clinical research; includes 2+ years monitoring or project management (global study); 1+ year global project management.
- Preferred: initiation-to-completion experience across multiple study phases (Phase I in patients; Phase II/III) and multiple therapeutic areas/disease states.
- Strong technical/clinical trial management, communication, leadership, matrix influence.
- Knowledge of SOPs, ICH, global regulations, ethics/compliance.
- Excellent planning/organization; English fluency.
- Advanced Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote.
Benefits:
- Paid time off; medical/dental/vision insurance; 401(k) (eligible employees); long-term incentive program eligibility.