Summary
Role Type: Hybrid Working,
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 integral 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.
About The Role
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 related discipline.
At least seven years of recent pharmaceutical or contract research organisation exper

📌 Lead Central Monitor (Barcelona)
🏢 Novartis UK
📍 Barcelona