Salary Range:
€63,600.00 - €118,000.00

Band
Level 5

Job Description Summary
Role Type: Hybrid Working, #LI-Hybrid
Primary Location: Barcelona, Spain
Other Locations: London, United Kingdom; Dublin, Ireland
Relocation Support: This role is based in Barcelona, Spain. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

What if your leadership could transform how clinical trial risks are identified, understood, and managed across a general development portfolio? As Lead Central Monitor, you will lead and develop a team of Central Monitors while shaping monitoring strategies that protect patient safety, trial quality, and data integrity. Working across clinical, data, and risk-surveillance teams, you will turn complex information into actionable insights, strengthen risk-based monitoring practices, and help advance the Central Monitoring capability at Novartis.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and develop a team of Central Monitors, building capability, engagement, and consistently high performance.




• Shape central and site monitoring strategies tailored to program, study, and Development Unit risks.
• Oversee trial-data surveillance, risk reviews, signal detection, and insight generation using Central Monitoring technology.
• Translate complex risk signals into actionable insights that enable Clinical Trial Teams to investigate and resolve issues.
• Partner with clinical, data, and risk-surveillance teams to implement effective monitoring and risk-mitigation approaches.
• Guide protocol development, risk assessment, and the design of study-specific Key Risk Indicators and thresholds.
• Ensure monitoring activities support clinical data integrity, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and timely issue resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement through analytics, technology, innovation, lessons learned, and Risk-Based Quality Management.

Essential Requirements
• University degree in Life Sciences, Business, Operations, or a re

📌 Lead Central Monitor (Barcelona)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Barcelona