Director Clinical Data Management (CDM)

at  Alexion PharmaceuticalsInc

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• As Director, Clinical Data Management (CDM), your role is responsible for managing a team of clinical data management experts to deliver portfolio-wide data management services for CDM activities. The Director makes decisions related to resourcing and prioritization that drive the quality and timeliness for CDM projects, as well as contribute to the strategy and overall success of CDM.

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Coaching and mentoring a team of 8-10 highly productive professionals who excel in data management operations and demonstrate a next-generation proficiency.
• Career development, performance management, and succession planning of the team.
• Facilitating internal information sharing amongst departments to promote learning and best practices.
• Hiring, developing and retaining talent.
• Supporting or leading senior leadership initiatives.
• Leading direct-line performance management measured by quality outputs tracked by key performance indicators while ensuring staff uses good clinical practice, risk-based processes, pro-active management of data quality oversight, and strategy for budget and resourcing.
• Participating in and leading process improvements within data management and across functions, including process and system enhancements and adoption roll-out by authoring, reviewing, publishing, and reviewing policies and methods in standard operating procedures, work instructions, job aids, and other training documents.
  • Influencing the vision and strategy of the CDM function, focusing on using advanced technologies, promoting risk-based data-driven decision-making, encouraging collaboration among cross-functional teams, emphasizing the importance of quality data, and advocating for continuous improvement in processes. • Staying informed on industry trends, regulatory requirements, and emergent data collection, data management, visualization and provision tools and applications to align the CDM strategy with evolving standards.