Senior Clinical Research Associate (Brazil)

Location: Remote, Brazil; travel required, including up to 60% overnight travel on average and international travel as needed.

Company

hirify.global provides clinical research and biopharmaceutical services supporting studies across Latin America.

What you will do

• Manage clinical trial sites independently, protecting patient safety and ensuring high-quality, reliable data.
• Conduct qualification, initiation, routine monitoring, close-out, oversight, on-site, and remote visits according to protocols, local laws, ICH-GCP, and SOPs.
• Lead site start-up activities, including feasibility, investigator recruitment, regulatory submissions, informed consent documentation, and study document preparation.
• Maintain trial management systems, monitoring reports, Investigator Site Files, Trial Master File reconciliation, and action tracking.
• Identify and resolve site risks, protocol deviations, data discrepancies, serious adverse events, and investigational product issues.
• Support Clinical Trial Managers and Project Managers, attend investigator and project meetings, and train and mentor junior CRAs.

Requirements

• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience in a scientific or healthcare discipline.
• At least 5 years of CRA experience in a CRO, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or equivalent clinical research environment.
• Significant clinical trial site management experience.
• Professional-level English proficiency required.
• Working knowledge of clinical trial methodology, protocols, indications, GCP, ICH guidelines, and clinical monitoring procedures.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize workloads, resolve project issues, and communicate with sites, clients, and project teams.

Nice to have

• Graduate or postgraduate degree.
• Experience in rare or complex therapeutic areas, biopharma, oncology, or early-phase studies.
• Experience with EDC trials, EHR records, site start-up, feasibility, contract negotiations, and regulatory submissions in Brazil.
• Experience preparing formal presentations and study-specific training materials.
• Demonstrated focus on continuous improvement and process efficiency.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement based in Brazil.
• Collaboration with global clinical monitoring, project, sponsor, investigator, and site teams.
• Opportunities to train and mentor new employees and junior monitors.
• Travel and participation in investigator meetings, sponsor meetings, and clinical training sessions according to project needs.