Location: London, UK (Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office)

Fortrea is seeking an Associate Country Clinical Quality Manager (ACCQM) to join our UK client-dedicated team.

This role is ideal for an experienced clinical quality professional who understands country and site-specific risks and is passionate about driving quality, compliance, and inspection readiness. In addition to strong clinical quality expertise, we are looking for individuals who embrace digital and AI-enabled ways of working, using data, automation, and technology to improve quality oversight, risk management, and operational efficiency.

As a trusted partner to country stakeholders, you will play a key role in safeguarding patient safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance while helping to advance innovative, data-driven approaches to clinical quality management.

What you'll do

• Partner with country stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate quality and compliance risks.
• Support audits and regulatory inspections, including CAPA development, root cause analysis, and follow-up activities.
• Act as a subject matter expert in ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and quality management frameworks.
• Support the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of SOPs and quality systems.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities for process improvement through data-driven analysis and quality metrics.
• Leverage digital tools, reporting solutions, and automation opportunities to strengthen quality oversight and operational effectiveness.
• Contribute to inspection readiness activities and compliance monitoring.
• Support training, knowledge sharing, and quality awareness initiatives across teams.
• Assist with Quality Control activities, including site-related quality reviews where required.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Healthcare, or a related field.
• Experience in clinical quality, compliance oversight, audits, inspections, or quality management activities.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Apps, automation tools, data analytics, or AI-enabled solutions.
• Exposure to audits, inspections, CAPA management, and quality investigations.
• Ability to identify risks, analyze trends, and drive continuous improvement.
• Interest in digital, data-driven, and AI-enabled approaches to quality management.
• Experience developing dashboards, metrics, or automated reporting.

Nice to have

• experience as a CRA or in a similar clinical research role.
• Experience supporting compliance investigations or quality issue management.
• Exposure to pharmacovigilance, privacy events, or serious breach reporting.
• Previous involvement in inspection readiness activities.

Why join us?
This is an opportunity to combine clinical quality expertise with innovative digital and AI-enabled ways of working. You'll help drive quality, compliance, and inspection readiness while leveraging technology, automation, and data to improve clinical trial oversight.

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At Fortrea, we're all about turning the “impossible” into "I'm possible." Together, we break barriers to deliver exceptional service to our patients, fueled by a shared commitment to teamwork and excellence. Regardless of your role, we're all family, working together to achieve extraordinary results. At Fortrea, your career isn't just a job – it's a journey of making the exceptional possible, every day.