Join us as an Associate Director Clinical Standards, where you will be accountable for leading, managing, and developing a team of clinical data standards developers. This role presents an opportunity to showcase your department mindset and management skills in overseeing the scope and complexity of clinical data standards in raw data collection and cleaning components packages. As a recognized expert within your field, you will often be the first point of contact for related queries, act as a coach or mentor for staff, and act as a specialist within cross-functional teams to deliver continuous improvement.

Accountabilities:

In this role, you will lead clinical data standards developers and act as a technical subject matter expert in specialized areas of clinical data standards data collection and cleaning components. You will manage activities of our CRO partners and external partners, lead the quality of your own deliverables and oversee the quality of other developers' standards deliverables. You will also drive standards development and implementation within the business, contribute to function recruiting, training, and mentoring, and represent Clinical Data standards at cross-functional forums and meetings.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- BSc in Information Sciences, Mathematical, Statistical, Computer Science or Life Science or equivalent experience.

- Expertise in specialized standards development skills (eg, raw data standards with data collection and cleaning components, clinical coding dictionaries, and data analysis & reporting standards (SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)) or expertise in Biometrics functions (eg, Data Management, Programming, or Statistics)

- Excellent knowledge of industry standards (eg, CDASH, SDTM, ADaM)

- Ability to apply standards expertise to problem

- Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English

- Strong project management skills

- Ability to mentor, train and lead teams

- Thorough knowledge of the clinical development process

- A clear demonstration of behaviours of truth seeking rather than success seeking

- Agile responsiveness to industry and business needs

- Embracing of peer review

Desirable Skills/Experience:

- Understanding of programming languages (eg, SAS, R, Java, Groovy, Spotfire, C/C++, VBA/VBS, .NET, Python, Pearl)

- Ability to influence relevant stakeholders on standards related items

- Ability to manage risk

- Ability to line manage

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