Senior Clinical Supplies Specialist

Mexico.

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

As a Senior Clinical Supplies Specialist at ICON, you will lead and coordinate external clinical supply packaging and distribution activities, ensuring the successful delivery of clinical trial materials through third-party contractors while maintaining quality, compliance, and study timelines.

What You Will Do:

You will serve as a key technical lead for external clinical supply operations, managing complex packaging and distribution activities while driving operational excellence and stakeholder collaboration.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading external packaging, labeling, and distribution activities for assigned clinical studies, ensuring delivery to agreed timelines, quality standards, and GMP requirements.
• Coordinating with third-party contractors, internal stakeholders, and supply chain partners to define technical requirements, assess feasibility, and mitigate operational risks.
• Overseeing clinical supply documentation, including packaging specifications, labeling content, batch records, and execution readiness activities.
• Managing communication with external vendors to monitor progress, resolve issues, and ensure alignment with study requirements and performance expectations.
• Tracking study milestones, supply activities, and key performance metrics, providing clear status updates to project teams and stakeholders.
• Supporting the implementation of new external supply strategies, supplier onboarding activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensuring accurate, compliant, and inspection-ready documentation while maintaining data integrity across clinical supply operations.
• Acting as a subject matter expert in clinical packaging, labeling, distribution, and related supply chain processes.

Your Profile:

You will bring strong technical expertise in clinical supply operations, with the ability to independently manage complex external packaging and logistics activities while collaborating effectively across global teams.

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, life sciences, or a related discipline
• Significant experience in clinical supplies, packaging operations, supply chain management, or logistics within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or CRO industry.
• Strong understanding of Clinical Trial Supply processes, including packaging, labeling, distribution, and inventory management.
  Solid knowledge of GMP, GDP, GCP, and global regulatory requirements related to clinical supplies.
• Experience managing third-party contractors, external vendors, or outsourced clinical supply activities.
• Strong project coordination and stakeholder management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a matrix environment.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, with strong attention to detail.
• Effective communication and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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