Senior Manager, Clinical Data Systems

About the role

AbbVie Data Science is the best-in-class team within its cross-industry peer group and is responsible for bringing people, process, and technology together to generate business value from clinical trials data. This role is key to ensuring successful delivery against the program and maintaining best-in-industry resources.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple therapeutic areas (TA).
• Manage technology evaluations and implementations for performance improvement and cost reduction.
• Create and sustain an environment that attracts, develops, and retains strong talent.
• Practice continuous improvement of processes and technology usage.
• Act as subject matter expert and process owner.
• Supervise and allocate internal and external resources within the Therapeutic Area.
• Ensure all performance assessment responsibilities are achieved for direct reports, including training, feedback, personnel issue resolution, and talent retention.
• Responsible for performance management of staff; support team in building and maintaining a high-performing team, recruitment, onboarding, resource assignment, and development opportunities.
• Manage cross-functional initiatives.
• Provide strategic direction, advice, and guidance to staff in relation to operations responsibilities and activities; promote best practices; ensure objectives are successfully met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, computer science, life sciences, or equivalent; Master’s preferred.
• Must have 8+ years of experience with clinical database design, data loading, and database modeling concepts or 9+ years of experience in a similar technical or clinical development environment.
• Demonstrated intermediate SAS and/or SQL programming skills and expert knowledge of database concepts.
• In-depth knowledge of CDASH and SDTM standards.
• In-depth understanding of clinical trial processes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence others without direct authority.
• Demonstrated performance as a key contributor to initiatives and advancement of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully coach/mentor in a matrix environment.
• Demonstrated effective communication skills.
• Demonstrated effective analytical skills.

Must have IRT/RSTM experience, understanding of IRT/RTSM SDLC, and IRT/RTSM vendor management/governance.