Associate Director, Clinical Data Standards

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Job Title

Associate Director, Clinical Data Standards

Division

Research and Development (R&D), Global Clinical Operations (GCO), Global Data Management and Centralized Monitoring (GDMCM)

Functional Area Description

Global Data Management and Centralized Monitoring is responsible for clinical trial data acquisition, quality review, and standards governance for trials across the BMS R&D portfolio.

Position Summary / Objective

The Associate Director, Clinical Data Standards is a leadership role with oversight to manage Standards Managers, determine resource requirements, prioritize assignments and balance workload. The role includes developing and communicating data standards implementation strategy within department and across functions and directly contributes to the BMS R&D pipeline.

This role reports to Director or Executive Director, Standards Management & Governance within CSDIA.

Position Responsibilities

• Providing leadership of clinical data standards activities across multiple clinical development programs, overseeing a team of standards professionals in planning, coordination, and timely delivery of global standards elements for study database consumption.
• Ensuring adaptive management of a standards team through the effective deployment of resources and streamlined processes, ensuring productivity targets, validity and quality of the data gathered in support of the evolving portfolio of BMS products.
• Managing the book of work for standards requests.  Assigning resources to standards requests and initiatives and regularly monitoring workloads to avoid delays in delivery due to resource constraints.  Forecasting future resource needs based on the book of work.
• Providing ongoing feedback, coaching, and career development, including engagement and retention support to staff in order to maximize their potential. Empowering and holding staff to high quality performance and delivery.
• Ensuring procedural documents are reflective of industry standards, easily followed, and regularly maintained.
• Contributing to the development and application of smart systems and optimal approaches to support the end to end clinical trial data lifecycle, from collection through submission.
• Holding accountability to resolve issues and proactively develop solutions, within the function and across functions.
• Actively participating in and/or leading continuous improvement activities, defining and implementing the changes required to create an industry-leading global standards competency.
• Engaging and energizing employees through communication of goals, priorities and other business critical information as well as focus on employee value proposition, development and retention activities.
• Developing and promoting a work place culture that values diversity of thought, promotes integrity and creates an atmosphere that supports coaching and fosters accountability.
• Ensuring effective quality oversight and management of external partners (e.g. Function Service Providers, CROs, technology providers, etc.) performing  standards activities on behalf of BMS.
• Developing strong and productive working relationships with key stakeholders throughout GDMCM, GCO, Global Biometrics & Data Sciences, and BMS with the ability to think strategically across a broad portfolio and effectively express his/her views to senior management.
• Representing the Company in interactions with key external partners as part of any committee or industry group relating to data standards.

Degree Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required with an advanced degree preferred

Experience Requirements

At least 12 years of global clinical trial expertise and a successful track record of leading through influence, working across complex, global organizational matrices, including 3 yrs of line management experience. Immuno-Oncology, Hematology, Cell Therapy, or Immunology therapeutic experience is highly desirable.

Key Competency Requirements

• Good understanding of the drug development process with proven expertise in clinical trial execution and data acquisition as well as analysis reporting in a global arena.
• Strong knowledge of industry clinical data standards and processes (e.g., CDISC: CDASH/SDTM/ADaM, SDSP) and well versed in industry best practice documentation from regulatory authorities (e.g., Technical Conformance Guide, Standards Catalog, CDISC TAUGs, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of industry leading eCRF tools (e.g., Medidata Rave, Oracle, etc.) and well versed in industry trends and emerging technologies supporting end to end solutions for data collection through submission (e.g., Metadata Data Repositories, Data Warehouse, Clinical Data Repository).
• Strong knowledge of GCP/ICH guidelines.
• Technical expertise, technical writing ability, and experience in Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles.
• Demonstrated partnership across various collaborative forums, CROs, SMOs and/or local site networks.
• Diverse and sufficient technical expertise to be a credible interface to all global development and business partners (medical, development, commercial, regulatory & quality etc.).
• Influential leadership and communication capabilities with a proven ability to engage, manage, develop and inspire a geographically diverse team.

Travel Required

Potential need for periodic travel

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On-site Protocol

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