Salary Range:
€63,600.00 - €118,000.00
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 related discipline.

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