Clinical Operations
Scientific / research IC
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Entry: Clinical Research SpecialistIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Clinical Research Specialist InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Clinical Research SpecialistIC1
- Clinical Research SpecialistIC2
- Senior Clinical Research SpecialistIC3
- Staff Clinical Research SpecialistIC4
- Principal Clinical Research SpecialistIC5
- Senior Principal Clinical Research SpecialistIC6
- Distinguished Clinical Research SpecialistIC7
- Fellow, Clinical OperationsIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; employer career sites