Senior Clinical Monitoring Lead

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists Abbott Medical Devices, with revenue of $21B in 2025, is a global leader in providing life changing technology for the management and treatment of people living with chronic conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, and movement disorders.

The Senior Clinical Monitoring Lead (CML) serves as the regional subject matter expert for clinical monitoring quality, oversight, and execution. This role partners with Clinical Site Management Leadership to drive monitoring excellence through report quality review, monitoring performance oversight, training, mentoring, compliance support, and continuous process improvement initiatives. The Senior CML provides leadership and support to Clinical Site Leads across the region, helping ensure consistent execution of monitoring plans, regulatory compliance, timely issue resolution, and adherence to company standards. As a recognized monitoring expert, the Senior CML acts as a key liaison among field monitoring teams, study teams, and quality functions to support operational effectiveness and inspection readiness. As a recognized subject matter expert in Site Quality Monitoring, KCI process, SIV, PMV, and COV, the Senior CML will exhibit fluency on monitoring-related clinical data systems and study-specific Monitoring Plans. Along with monitoring their own assigned sites, the Senior CML will provide direct mentorship on monitoring training, execution, and best practices for all Clinical Site Lead’s throughout the region and also serve as a liaison to Field Clinical Quality Managers. May be consulted in the following areas: study design, site payments, site audits, local document review, study documents preparation, and submission to site or competent authority/ethics committee. Beyond monitoring assigned sites, the Senior CML is a nationally recognized leader/expert in monitoring who provides support, mentoring and guidance to other clinical site management colleagues and consistently delivers prolific contributions to Global Clinical Operations and/or Business Units. What You’ll Work On Monitoring Oversight & Compliance Serve as a regional monitoring expert providing oversight of monitoring quality, monitoring documentation, and compliance with study requirements, GCP, and company procedures. Review and provide feedback on monitoring visit reports, monitoring trends, and quality metrics to promote consistency and continuous improvement. Support CAPA activities, issue escalation management, inspection readiness initiatives, and monitoring-related quality investigations. Training & Development Provide mentoring, coaching, onboarding, and ongoing support to