Full-Time
Associate Director
Multiple Teams
Posted on 8/21/2026
IQVIA
10,001+ employees
Analytics, technology, and clinical research services.
Compensation Overview
$102.5k - $285.5k/yr
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
Washington, DC, USA
In Person
Bachelor's
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- A bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Public Health, Nursing, Technology, or a related field is required.
- At least 7 years of clinical research experience, including experience supporting digital health, medical device, or technology-enabled clinical studies, is required.
- Experience leading complex, multi-study clinical research programs is required.
- Strong understanding of ICH-GCP, clinical trial operations, and regulatory requirements is required.
- Strong leadership and client management skills are required.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities are required.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment is required.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities are required.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications is required.
- Provide leadership and oversight for digital health clinical studies from study start-up through closeout.
- Ensure studies are executed in compliance with ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and company quality standards.
- Serve as the escalation point for clinical, operational, quality, and technology-related issues.
- Drive consistency and best practices across digital health study delivery.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for sponsors and senior stakeholders.
- Lead governance meetings, study reviews, and executive-level communications.
- Build and maintain relationships with sponsors, investigators, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
- Support proposals, bid defenses, and client presentations.
- Provide subject-matter expertise across digital health, decentralized clinical trials, connected devices, and emerging healthcare technologies.
- Contribute to the development of scalable delivery models and service offerings.
- Mentor and develop project managers, clinical staff, and study teams.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and professional development initiatives.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Experience with decentralized and hybrid clinical trial models.
- Experience supporting digital therapeutics (DTx), connected medical devices, software as a medical device (SaMD), AI-enabled healthcare solutions, wearable technologies, remote patient monitoring, or radiology and imaging technologies.
- Familiarity with EDC, CTMS, ePRO, and other clinical technology platforms.
IQVIA is a global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services for the life sciences industry. Its services combine deep clinical trial expertise with large datasets and analytics tools, delivered through the Connected Intelligence platform that links the healthcare ecosystem to generate insights while protecting patient privacy. The company differentiates itself by merging clinical research experience with expansive data resources and technology capabilities from its QuintilesIMS lineage, offering an integrated suite for faster research, development, and commercialization of medical treatments. IQVIA’s goal is to help pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies, as well as researchers and governments, accelerate the development of new therapies and improve health outcomes.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Durham, North Carolina
Founded
1998
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue rose 8.7% to $4.368 billion on July 28.
- R&D bookings jumped 19% to $3.15 billion, lifting book-to-bill to 1.22x.
- August 4, 2026 Medera collaboration expands gene-therapy pipeline exposure.
What critics are saying
- CNIL fined IQVIA Operations France €5 million on May 26, 2026, over health-data handling.
- Morgan Stanley downgraded IQVIA on biotech funding shifts and in-house AI substitution, July 2026.
- IQVIA sued ex-executives in April 2026 after an alleged Syneos client raid.
What makes IQVIA unique
- IQVIA deployed 294 AI agents across 90 use cases by July 2026.
- Nineteen of top 20 pharma companies use IQVIA AI solutions in workflows.
- June 2026 backlog reached $34.2 billion, proving unmatched CRO-commercial data integration.
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↓ -3%IQVIA ranked No. 1 Pharmaceutical Technology provider by Everest Group. 08/17/2026 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-(BUSINESS WIRE)- IQVIA (NYSE:IQV), a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries, today announced that it has been ranked No. 1 in Everest Group's "Top 50(TM) Pharmaceutical Technology Providers" report for 2026. IQVIA earned the highest overall score among the 50 providers evaluated, receiving 96.8 out of 100. The ranking recognizes IQVIA's broad technology coverage across the pharmaceutical value chain and its ability to support complex, highly regulated life sciences environments. IQVIA was the only provider in the ranking with technology coverage across all six pharmaceutical value-chain areas assessed: drug discovery and research, clinical development, manufacturing operations, sales and marketing, supply chain and distribution and pharmacovigilance and safety. This breadth of coverage helps customers connect capabilities across the product lifecycle, make better decisions and execute more effectively. IQVIA combines proprietary data and content, deep life sciences expertise, advanced technology and longstanding experience operating in highly regulated, privacy-sensitive environments to help customers address complex challenges with greater confidence. Biopharma customers are looking for more than individual technologies. They demand solutions that work together and a partner that understands the realities of their business. To learn more about how IQVIA helps life sciences and healthcare organizations turn data, technology and AI into better outcomes, visit: www.iqvia.com. About Everest Group Everest Group is a leading global research firm helping business leaders make confident decisions. It guides clients through today's market challenges and strengthens their strategies by applying contextualized problem-solving to their unique situations. This drives maximized operational and financial performance and transformative experiences. The Everest Group's deep expertise and tenacious research focused on technology, business processes and engineering through the lenses of talent, sustainability and sourcing deliver precise and action-oriented guidance. Find further details and in-depth content at www.everestgrp.com. About IQVIA IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. IQVIA's portfolio of solutions are powered by IQVIA Connected Intelligence(TM) to deliver actionable insights and services built on high-quality health data, Healthcare-grade AI(R), advanced analytics, the latest technologies and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA is committed to using AI responsibly, with AI-powered capabilities built on best-in-class approaches to privacy, regulatory compliance and patient safety, and delivering AI to the high standards of trust, scalability and precision demanded by the industry. With approximately 94,000 employees in over 100 countries, including experts in healthcare, life sciences, data science, technology and operational excellence, IQVIA is dedicated to accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. IQVIA's insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com. Kerri Joseph, IQVIA Investor Relations ([email protected]) +1.973.541.3558 Multimedia Files: Company's logo
IQVIA and Medera to advance cardiac gene therapy and human-based drug discovery. August 04, 2026 16:15 ET | Source: Medera Inc. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and BOSTON, Aug. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - IQVIA (NYSE:IQV), a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries, and Medera Inc. ("Medera"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering next-generation therapeutics for cardiovascular disease, today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the development of cardiac gene therapies and human-based drug discovery platforms. The collaboration brings together IQVIA's global clinical trial and commercialization infrastructure with Medera's pioneering platforms: Sardocor, focused on developing disease-modifying gene therapies for difficult-to-treat cardiovascular diseases, and Novoheart, a leader in engineered human-based cardiac tissue for disease modelling and drug screening. Sardocor will leverage IQVIA's regulatory and trial execution expertise to advance its FDA-cleared, first-in-human AAV-based gene therapy programs. IQVIA will support patient recruitment, data quality and regulatory filings, including applications for expedited FDA designations. Novoheart's mini-Heart platform is already instrumental in securing IND and Fast Track designations and offers a predictive, human-based alternative to animal testing. The platform is expanding into multiple organ systems to support drug discovery and safety testing under the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. "By combining IQVIA's global expertise with Medera's mini-Heart platform and gene therapy programs, we can bring safer, more effective therapies to patients faster," said Ronald Li, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Medera. "This collaboration expands our reach, while reinforcing the scientific and regulatory momentum around human-based drug discovery and cardiac gene therapy innovation." About IQVIA IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. IQVIA's portfolio of solutions are powered by IQVIA Connected Intelligence(TM) to deliver actionable insights and services built on high-quality health data, Healthcare-grade AI(R), advanced analytics, the latest technologies and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA is committed to using AI responsibly, with AI-powered capabilities built on best-in-class approaches to privacy, regulatory compliance and patient safety, and delivering AI to the high standards of trust, scalability and precision demanded by the industry. With approximately 94,000 employees in over 100 countries, including experts in healthcare, life sciences, data science, technology and operational excellence, IQVIA is dedicated to accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. IQVIA's insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com. About Medera Inc. Medera is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeting difficult-to-treat and currently incurable diseases by developing next-generation therapeutics. Medera operates via two business units: Sardocor, its clinical development arm advancing a pipeline of cardiac gene therapy trials (HFpEF, HFrEF, DMD-CM), and Novoheart, its preclinical subsidiary pioneering the world's first and award-winning "mini-Heart" technology for human-based disease modelling, drug discovery, and toxicity testing. Novoheart's platforms have already supported FDA IND and Fast Track designations, and the company is advancing a broader pipeline of gene therapy, cell therapy, and small molecule candidates. For more information, visit www.medera.bio. | Contacts: | / | | Ally Stubin ICR Healthcare Media Relations 646-667-1861 [email protected] Stephanie Carrington ICR Healthcare Investor Relations 646-277-1282 [email protected] | Alissa Maupin IQVIA Media Relations 919-923-6785 [email protected] Kerri Joseph IQVIA Investor Relations 973-541-3558 [email protected] |
IQVIA Holdings Inc. (NYSE:IQV) receives consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" from brokerages. July 30, 2026 Key points. * Analysts maintain a bullish outlook: Sixteen brokerages assign IQVIA a consensus "Moderate Buy" rating, with 13 buys and three holds. The average 12-month price target is approximately $241.88, while several firms recently raised targets as high as $287. * Second-quarter performance exceeded expectations: Adjusted earnings were $3.15 per share versus the $3.03 consensus, while revenue increased 8.7% year over year to $4.37 billion. IQVIA also raised its fiscal 2026 earnings guidance to $12.80-$13.00 per share and cited record R&D bookings and a growing backlog. * Shares are near their 52-week high: IQVIA opened at $247.84, compared with a 52-week high of $251.36, and institutional investors own 89.62% of the stock. The company also has authorization for a $2 billion share repurchase program, covering up to 6.8% of outstanding shares. * Five stocks to consider instead of IQVIA. IQVIA Holdings Inc. (NYSE:IQV - Get Free Report) has received an average rating of "Moderate Buy" from the sixteen brokerages that are presently covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and thirteen have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price objective among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $241.8824. Several analysts have commented on IQV shares. Mizuho increased their target price on IQVIA from $215.00 to $230.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research note on Monday, July 13th. Barclays reaffirmed an "overweight" rating on shares of IQVIA in a report on Tuesday. Robert W. Baird lifted their price objective on IQVIA from $252.00 to $287.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a report on Wednesday. HSBC reissued a "buy" rating and issued a $240.00 target price on shares of IQVIA in a research report on Monday, July 6th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus raised their price target on shares of IQVIA from $220.00 to $276.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday. Key stories impacting IQVIA. Here are the key news stories impacting IQVIA this week: * Positive Sentiment: Second-quarter results exceeded expectations: IQVIA reported adjusted earnings of $3.15 per share versus the $3.03 consensus estimate, while revenue rose 8.7% year over year to $4.37 billion, above expectations of $4.30 billion. IQVIA Reports Second-Quarter 2026 Results * Positive Sentiment: Full-year guidance was raised: IQVIA now expects fiscal 2026 earnings of $12.80 to $13.00 per share, above the prior consensus estimate of $12.57. Revenue guidance of $17.3 billion to $17.5 billion also reflects continued expansion in the business. IQV Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates on R&D Bookings, Guidance Raised * Positive Sentiment: Demand indicators improved: Record R&D bookings, broad-based growth and a ballooning backlog suggest strong future revenue visibility and sustained demand for IQVIA's clinical-research and healthcare-intelligence services. IQVIA Stocks Rises on 2Q Gains, Ballooning Backlog * Positive Sentiment: Analysts became more bullish: JPMorgan raised its price target from $225 to $285 and assigned an "overweight" rating. Stifel lifted its target from $220 to $276 with a "buy" rating, while Robert W. Baird increased its target from $252 to $287 and maintained an "outperform" rating. These revisions indicate that analysts view the earnings beat and stronger outlook as durable catalysts. * Neutral Sentiment: IQVIA's new simplified organizational model is intended to improve collaboration and efficiency, but the financial benefits will depend on execution over time. The stock is also trading near its 52-week high, leaving less room for disappointment if growth or guidance momentum slows. Hedge funds weigh in on IQVIA. A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of IQV. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in IQVIA by 0.8% during the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 19,650,532 shares of the medical research company's stock valued at $4,429,426,000 after acquiring an additional 159,899 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of IQVIA by 0.6% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,374,971 shares of the medical research company's stock valued at $982,272,000 after purchasing an additional 24,453 shares during the period. Boston Partners grew its stake in shares of IQVIA by 14.9% during the 4th quarter. Boston Partners now owns 4,087,380 shares of the medical research company's stock valued at $923,276,000 after purchasing an additional 530,672 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its position in shares of IQVIA by 16.2% during the 4th quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 3,799,600 shares of the medical research company's stock valued at $856,468,000 after purchasing an additional 528,753 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its stake in shares of IQVIA by 15.3% in the 3rd quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 2,773,984 shares of the medical research company's stock worth $526,891,000 after purchasing an additional 367,204 shares during the period. 89.62% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. IQVIA stock up 2.0%. NYSE:IQV opened at $247.84 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $41.36 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.75, a P/E/G ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.18, a quick ratio of 0.75 and a current ratio of 0.71. IQVIA has a fifty-two week low of $154.50 and a fifty-two week high of $251.36. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $192.00 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $186.89. IQVIA (NYSE:IQV - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 28th. The medical research company reported $3.15 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.03 by $0.12. The firm had revenue of $4.37 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.30 billion. IQVIA had a net margin of 8.10% and a return on equity of 30.25%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 8.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $2.81 earnings per share. IQVIA has set its FY 2026 guidance at 12.800-13.000 EPS. Analysts predict that IQVIA will post 11.57 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. IQVIA announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Thursday, May 7th that authorizes the company to repurchase $2.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the medical research company to buy up to 6.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued. About IQVIA. IQVIA NYSE: IQV is a global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services to the life sciences industry. The company combines clinical research capabilities with large-scale health data and analytics to support drug development, regulatory reporting, commercial strategy and real-world evidence generation. IQVIA traces its current form to the combination of Quintiles and IMS Health announced in 2016 and subsequently rebranded as IQVIA, bringing together long-established clinical research operations and extensive healthcare information assets. IQVIA's principal activities include outsourced clinical development services (acting as a contract research organization for phases I-IV), real-world evidence and observational research, regulatory and safety services, and a suite of technology platforms that enable data integration, analytics and operational management. 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IQVIA shares jumped 12.9% in morning trading after the clinical research company reported second-quarter results exceeding Wall Street expectations and raised its full-year guidance. The company posted revenue of $4.37 billion, up 8.7% year-on-year, beating estimates of $4.30 billion. Adjusted earnings per share reached $3.15, a 12.1% increase from the previous year, surpassing the consensus estimate of $3.03. Following the strong performance, IQVIA raised its full-year 2026 forecast. The company now projects revenue between $17.28 billion and $17.48 billion, with adjusted earnings per share ranging from $12.80 to $13.00. IQVIA shares are up 6.5% year-to-date and currently trade at $240.04, near their 52-week high of $244.29.
IQVIA reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $4,368 million, up 8.7% year-over-year. The healthcare intelligence provider posted adjusted diluted earnings per share of $3.15, up 12.1%, and adjusted EBITDA of $994 million, up 9.2%. Commercial Solutions revenue reached $1,793 million, up 8.6%, whilst Research & Development Solutions revenue hit $2,575 million, up 8.8%. R&D Solutions generated record net new bookings of $3.15 billion, up 19%, with a 1.22x book-to-bill ratio. Operating cash flow rose 26% to $558 million. The company raised its full-year 2026 guidance for revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted diluted earnings per share.