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Data Management Lead

Fortrea San Jose senior full-time

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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

Nice to have

  • life sciences
  • health sciences
  • information technology
  • Electronic Data Capture

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