# Data Management Lead

**Company**: Fortrea
**Location**: San Jose
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Data Management Lead to oversee data management activities for clinical trials. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading studies, developing project documentation, and ensuring data quality.

**Job Summary:** As a Data Management Lead, you will be responsible for providing data management leadership on studies and taking responsibility for the development of project documentation, system set-up, data entry, and data validation procedures and processes. You will work directly with sponsors to understand their requirements and lead implementation of those requirements.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead studies, including healthy volunteer and patient populations, multi-site, client management required or reduced timelines

- Be accountable for all data management deliverables, providing instruction to data management study teams and reviewing their output to ensure high quality

- Ensure that all allocated projects are carried out in strict accordance with relevant protocols, global harmonized SOPs, and GCPs

- Work with project managers to build timelines and communicate with leads in different disciplines and the full project team

- Provide data management project team leadership and accountability

- Maintain awareness of other biometrics functional group deliverables to support risk and mitigation strategies

- Develop and maintain client relationships and review client satisfaction surveys

- Track scope changes and work with project managers to ensure sponsor approval is received

- Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching in data management-related clinical trial processes to internal study teams

- Support data management managers on performance evaluations of team members and provide constructive feedback

- Stay up-to-date with industry-wide technology and feasibility for process improvement

- Maintain accurate records of all work undertaken

- Perform reconciliation of clinical databases against safety data, laboratory data, or other third-party data

- Represent data management and biometrics in new business opportunities

- Attend and action client or internal audits and resolve issues within an appropriate timeframe

**Requirements:**

- University/college degree

- 6-8 years of data management experience with a minimum of 1 year of direct sponsor management

- Experience in handling customer concerns and managing scope of work and budgets

- Knowledge of clinical trial process, data management, clinical operations, biometrics, and system applications

- Time management skills and ability to adhere to project productivity metrics and timelines

- Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate with peers

- Good organisational ability, communication, and interpersonal skills

- Knowledge of medical terminology

- Fluent in English, both written and verbal

## Skills

### Required
- data management
- clinical trials
- project management
- leadership
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- medical terminology
- English

### Nice to have
- life sciences
- health sciences
- information technology
- Electronic Data Capture

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