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The Manager Data Management Support is accountable for hiring, managing, mentoring, and developing a team of Data Management Associates and Senior Associates. This critical role will build role capability within the team so associates can execute clinical data management startup and conduct activities at high quality, and for addressing performance issues promptly and fairly. This Manager will partner with Resource Points of Contact / resourcing leads to ensure team members are appropriately allocated across studies/programs based on skill and capacity.
Job Responsibility:
Recruit, onboard, and train new team members
Provide regular coaching, mentoring, and competency development for direct reports
Proactively manage team risks including attrition, skill gaps, and performance challenges
Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, clear communication, and continuous improvement
Partner with resourcing leads to assign associates based on skills, experience, and workload
Monitor capacity and forecast demand
Ensure associates are prepared for study assignments
Track allocation health and adjust proactively
Identify recurring gaps in skills, process adherence, or tooling and drive targeted training plans
Promote standard ways of working for associate execution
Capture lessons learned and share across the support pool
Encourage practical improvements that increase throughput and quality
Serve as point of contact for escalations related to associate performance, responsiveness, and quality
Build strong relationships with study and program stakeholders
Ensure consistent communication between delivery roles and the support pool on priorities and deadlines
Ensure associates operate within SOPs, work instructions, and quality standards
Support audit/inspection readiness
Partner with QA/Process leads to implement corrective actions
Monitor basic quality indicators for support work
Support the functional resourcing team as needed
Provide reporting on team capacity, utilization, and skill coverage
Requirements:
Doctorate degree
OR Master’s degree and 2 years of clinical data management / clinical data operations experience
OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of clinical data management / clinical data operations experience
OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of clinical data management / clinical data operations experience
OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of clinical data management / clinical data operations experience
Pharmaceutical Expertise: Understanding of clinical trial execution and how Data Management supports startup, conduct, and closeout
Management Experience: Experience managing and developing a team
Tech Skills: Comfortable working in common clinical data platforms and workflows
Proficient in Excel
familiarity with basic data concepts
Operational execution and prioritization
Quality mindset and inspection readiness
Process discipline
Stakeholder management
Data fluency
Structured problem solving
Global collaboration
Nice to have:
5+ years in life sciences, with at least 3 years focused on clinical data management / clinical data operations supporting interventional trials
Experience leading teams that execute high-volume clinical data management work
Experience supporting multiple studies and/or programs in parallel with shifting priorities