Teams at Parexel

The Senior Clinical Research Associate is responsible for site management and monitoring of clinical trials, ensuring compliance with regulations and quality standards, and enhancing investigator site relationships.

Manages clinical laboratory sample operations for clinical trials, including collection, processing, storage, shipping, data transfer, compliance, vendor coordination, cost forecasting, timelines, and issue resolution. Partners with precision medicine, clinical, data management, logistics, laboratory, scientific, and CRO teams to ensure high-quality samples and data support biomarker and non-biomarker evaluation. Provides operational and project management support while ensuring protocol, informed consent, and human sample management compliance.

The APEX Clinical Research Associate program provides foundational clinical research training and hands-on experience supporting project activities, study initiation, and site-facing work. Participants use clinical systems, complete monitoring-related tasks, and accompany CRAs on observational and co-monitoring visits. Upon completion, they transition toward independent CRA responsibilities, including site relationship management, issue resolution, quality oversight, and study delivery. The role is field-based, requiring frequent travel to investigator sites and participation in required training.