Senior Manager; Centralized Monitoring

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Job Title/Role - Senior Manager; Centralized Monitoring.

Position Summary       

The Senior Manager, Centralized Monitoring has a critical role in the development, embedding, growth and health of the central monitoring capability in support of the BMS Risk Based Monitoring (RBM) methodology. This role is responsible for the remote assessment of Risk Indicators and analytics that allows for early issue detection and emerging risks in study-specific variables (patterns/ trends/outliers/poor performing sites) through the review of aggregate clinical and operational data. The Senior Manager, Centralized Monitoring will interact with clinical teams to support the oversight of the sites/countries/studies as per the BMS Risk Based Monitoring methodology.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Support and drive the development, embedding, growth and health of the necessary business process to support risk mitigation and global monitoring processes that align with the risks of BMS programs and protocols.

• Support and drive execution of RBM processes as a part of cross-functional teams spanning the R&D portfolio (all therapeutic areas and phases of development).
• Provides input to protocol design, critical data and process identification, study risk assessment, and preventative mitigation plans.

• Utilize analytics/visualizations to review aggregate data for the remote assessment of Risk Indicators that identify issues and emerging risks at the study, program, country, therapeutic and functional level, to ensure risks are addressed consistently.
• Assess the reliability of data generated through the identification of missing and/or inconsistent data, outliers, unexpected lack of or excessive variability, systematic or significant errors in data collection, and potential data manipulation or data integrity problems within and across sites.
• Identify critical data issues and document findings for tracking and timely resolution.
• Drive the development of and provide feedback on documented processes developed for the BMS RBM methodology.
• Drive the development of and provide feedback on training material developed to support RBM methods.
• Accountable for supporting global inspection readiness and inspections in regards to RBM monitoring process and tactics
• Provide user input to technology needs necessary to support all aspects of RBM. 
• Where appropriate lead development and implementation of analytical tools to support Centralized Monitoring business needs.
• Drive the development and maintenance of metrics that inform the evaluation of central monitoring performance and effectiveness.

• Accountable to lead and provide input on continuous improvement opportunities/initiatives within the CCRM and GDO organizations.
• Acts as a change agent with stakeholders across Drug Development, including educating, bridging knowledge across functions, and developing effective partnerships with critical stakeholders.
• Provides effective vendor oversight of outsourced studies, as assigned.

• Supports and contributes to successful achievement of organizational, departmental and team objectives.

Qualifications

• Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate ideas/concepts and to motivate others to accomplish challenging shared goals and objectives.
• Well-versed in analytical and conceptual capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to apply critical thinking and identify, distinguish relative importance and be able to work through issues remotely.
• Demonstrated knowledge of clinical operations, inclusive of site monitoring, management, and data management
• Demonstrated knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (GCP)
• Demonstrated ability to absorb critical knowledge on relevant protocol/trial design requirements as well as relevant clinical/disease area knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage competing priorities to achieve the goals of the department and the larger organization.
• Thorough knowledge of global regulatory and guideline (inclusive of ICH GCP) requirements with clinical experiences in a drug development capacity
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships across organizational and/or geographic boundaries through participation on cross-functional teams.
• Basic office tools (e.g. MS Suite); Thorough knowledge of software and tools used for Central Monitoring activities; any new software identified to enhance the role of the Senior Manager.
• Ability to lead development and implementation of data visualizations and statistical models (e.g., using R, RStudio, Python, Spotfire) to support business needs.

• Education/Experience/ Licenses/Certifications:
  • Degree required in one of the following disciplines or related field: Life Sciences; Analytics; Data Science; Statistics; Business
  • 5+ Years in drug development
  • 3+ Years in the field of site management, site monitoring, data management or d other relevant experience
• Travel: Potential need for periodic travel to where team may be located.

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