# Lead Data Manager **Company**: ICON Strategic Solutions **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Data Science **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://icon.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/broadbean_external/job/Spain-Barcelona/Lead-Data-Manager_JR160252?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9b3583e7-b66 ## Description At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON's global expertise. As the world's largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide. As a Lead Data Manager at ICON, you will drive data science initiatives within study start-up clinical trials, ensuring that our analyses provide meaningful insights that inform strategic decisions. ### What You Will Do: You will manage day-to-day clinical data science activities, supporting your team to deliver quality outcomes. Key responsibilities include: - Leading end-to-end clinical data management start-up activities from protocol review through specification development, database build, testing, validation, and production go-live. - Reviewing draft and approved protocols to identify data collection requirements, build risks, inconsistencies, and potential impacts to database design or downstream processes. - Translating protocol requirements into complete and accurate study build specifications, including visit schedules, assessments, eCRFs, dosing, data collection requirements, and edit check specifications. - Applying clinical data standards, including CDISC standards, eCRF design principles, field and variable conventions, and approved standard forms, to ensure consistent and compliant study configuration. - Partnering with the Standards team to leverage existing standards and define, document, and implement protocol-specific modifications when needed. - Collaborating with Study Execution Teams (SET), Medical Data Review (MDR), Programming, Data Management, Standards, and other cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve discrepancies, and coordinate study configuration activities. - Planning, coordinating, and overseeing sandbox testing and user acceptance testing (UAT), including documentation of defects, issue resolution, retesting, and confirmation of system readiness. - Managing start-up timelines, dependencies, deliverables, risks, and issue-resolution activities to ensure timely and successful database go-live. - Assessing and managing the data management impact of protocol amendments and post–go-live changes, including updates to specifications, system configuration, testing, validation, and documentation. - Maintaining complete, accurate, and timely data management start-up documentation in the eTMF. - Ensuring all data management start-up deliverables comply with applicable SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and internal quality standards. ### Your Profile: You will have solid clinical data experience, with the ability to manage competing priorities and develop your team. Required qualifications and experience: - Bachelor's degree in life sciences, computer science, or a related discipline. - Extensive experience in data analysis and project leadership within a clinical research setting. - Strong expertise in statistical software and data visualization techniques. - Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on translating data into actionable insights. - Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to foster collaboration across diverse teams. - Willingness to travel as required (approximately 15%). ### Rewards & Benefits ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development. Benefits may include: - Competitive base salary and performance-related incentives. - Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable. - Retirement and pension plans. - Life assurance and disability coverage. - Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources. - Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways. Benefits may vary depending on role and location. ## Skills ### Required - clinical data management - data analysis - project leadership - statistical software - data visualization techniques - CDISC standards - eCRF design principles --- Source: [Apply at icon.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://icon.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/broadbean_external/job/Spain-Barcelona/Lead-Data-Manager_JR160252?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)