Manager-Clinical Data Scientist | Pfizer | Chennai

Job Description

ROLE SUMMARY

As a Manager, you provide guidance to operational teams for managing projects. Your planning skills will help in preparing forecasts for resource requirements and providing areas of improvement for products, processes, or services. Through your comprehensive knowledge of principles, concepts, and theories of the discipline, you will also work towards advancing new concepts and methodologies. You will be able to take a leadership role to facilitate agreements between different teams.

It is your dedication and focus that will help make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance, lead/co-lead projects, manage own time to meet objectives, and plan resource requirements for projects across the division.
• Ensure work carried out by providers is in accordance with applicable Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and working practices.
• Promote the use of consistent, efficient, and quality processes to meet timelines and deliverables.
• Serve as Clinical Data Scientist and Trial Lead for one or more clinical trials assuming responsibility for all Data Monitoring and Management (DMM) activities and interacting with Clinical Data Scientists at the study level for deliverables.
• Serve as a technical resource to the study teams for data visualization and reporting tools and provide technical expertise and business process support in technology systems.
• Ensure operational excellence in collaboration with partners for the application of standards, data acquisition, proactive data review and data integrity, and overall data management activities.
• Partner with Research/Business Units and any external DM service provider to deliver high-quality data management for all studies as assigned.
• Perform central monitoring activities including reviewing system outputs, proposing suggestions for signal and action management, and following up with the study team for action resolutions.
• Plan and execute communication plans and methods for engaging customer populations.

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years’ experience
• Experience within the pharmaceutical industry or in a health information management role
• Working knowledge of all phases of clinical trials and ability to assess and determine study requirements from protocol review
• Working knowledge of clinical research, Food and Drug Administration & International Conference on Harmonization Good Clinical Practices (GCDMP), and related regulatory requirements
• Strong Project and Risk Management
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks and projects
• Knowledge of Windows Environment and its applications.

Nice-to-Have:

• Master’s degree
• Contract Research Organization {CRO} and vendor oversight experience
• Proficient in using commercial clinical data management systems and/or EDC products