Associate Clinical Data Manager/Clinical Data Specialist
IQVIA
Date: 1 week ago
City: Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
Contract type: Full time

Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive data management expertise to Clinical Data Management (CDM) to provide efficient, quality data management products that meet customer needs.
- Provide leadership either in the role of the Data Operations Coordinator (DOC), or in a leadership role in a specific CDM task (e.g., lead of a task on a megatrial, coder, tester, database designer for technologies that don’t require extensive programming expertise).
- Serve as Lead on multiple global clinical trials or 35+ increasingly complex central laboratory studies.
- Provide leadership to CDM and Operations team.
- Manage CDM customer relationship for CDM project team including active participation in DM customer negotiation on timeline, budgetary and other issues (with guidance).
- Provide marketing capabilities presentations and business development presentations; or serve as Data Operations Coordinator (DOC) for one or two global clinical trials with fewer than 20 operations staff (excludes DE) or 20-30 central laboratory studies, or serve in a leadership role to a specific data management task.
- Provide specific CDM task or technology expertise.
- Manage delivery of projects through full data management process life-cycle.
- With minimal guidance, manage project timelines and quality issues, determine resource needs, and identify and justify out-of-scope.
- Provide input for negotiations with customer.
- Provide comprehensive data management expertise (including all operations tasks and creation of project specifications).
- Perform comprehensive quality control procedures.
- Independently bring project solutions to the CDM team.
- Solve issues through using the global issue escalation/communication plan.
- Consult with Standards Group for process issues
- Communicate ideas for process improvement.
- Assist in developing and implementing new technology.
- Understand and comply with core operating procedures and working instructions.
- Meet objectives as assigned.
- Develop and maintain good communications and working relationships with CDM and project teams.
- Interact with CDM team members to negotiate timelines and responsibilities.
- Thorough knowledge of the data management process and experience in specialized data management skills (e.g., therapeutic, extensive knowledge, SAE reconciliation, central laboratory, and/or new technology
- Knowledge of operating procedures and work instructions and the ability to apply them in practice
- Excellent experience and organizational, communication, and demonstrated expert data management skills
- Comprehensive understanding of clinical drug development process (detail oriented)
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients
- Bachelor’s degree, or educational equivalence, in clinical, biological or mathematical sciences, or related field, or nursing qualification with 2 - 3 years’ related experience in a function similar to data management: or equivalent combination of education, training and experience