Clinical Trial Assistant

The Clinical Operations team is responsible for all clinical trials we conduct for our product candidates. The team has members residing in the US and in the Netherlands. The position is located in the US (Cambridge). Currently we have four product candidates in ongoing clinical trials for solid tumor cancer patients.

Key Responsibilities

As (Senior) Clinical Trial Assistant you are part of the global Clinical Operations Team. Your main tasks and responsibilities are the following:

• Maintain and file essential clinical trial documents and completeness check of TMF
• Responsible for quality check of documents during filing
• General administrative tasks;
• Set up meetings;
• General assistance of the Clinical Operations team (onboarding of new Clinical Operations & Clinical Development team members, preparation of overviews and output, etc);
• Support in vendor and site agreement workflow
• Creation of purchase orders and reviewing of invoices for the Clinical Operations and Clinical Development team.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

The successful Clinical Trial Assistant will have the following knowledge and expertise:

• Advanced (e.g. Masters) degree or equivalent education / degree in life sciences;
• 2 – 3 years of experience in a similar role;
• Knowledge of ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
• You master the English language;
• You have extensive experience with MS Office (in particular Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint);
• You are a born organizer and thrive when given the opportunity to help others;
• You have a high level of quality and an eye for detail;

Please note that this role is an onsite/hybrid role and we will require candidates to be able to travel into the office. Candidates currently not living in the USA or at a reasonable travel distance from Cambridge, Massachusetts, will not be considered for the selection process.

Our offer

We offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest in the biotech industry. As part or Merus, you’ll get to interact with a great international team of people who love what they do! To top it all, we offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours and a company bonus structure. Most importantly, you’ll have the chance to help us close in on cancer – everything you do matters at Merus.