Clinical Scientific Expert
Role Overview
Supports global clinical trial activities under appropriate oversight to deliver study outcomes within schedule, budget, quality, compliance, and performance standards.
Provides clinical and scientific support across clinical study phases as a core member of the Clinical Trial Team.
Uses clinical data review principles to identify scientifically implausible data, trends, signals, and patient safety risks.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Supports global clinical trial activities under appropriate oversight to deliver study outcomes within schedule, budget, quality, compliance, and performance standards.
Provides clinical and scientific support across clinical study phases as a core member of the Clinical Trial Team.
Uses clinical data review principles to identify scientifically implausible data, trends, signals, and patient safety risks.
Major Accountabilities
- Perform clinical data review and identify patient-level insights, trends, signals, risks, and issues affecting data quality, safety, eligibility, and integrity.
- Support interim analysis, database lock, post-lock activities, and resolution of clinical data issues with relevant line functions.
- Contribute to data review and quality plans and ensure protocol requirements and study assessments are implemented consistently.
- Contribute to case report form development, data capture tools, and improvements to data review processes.
- Contribute to regulatory documents, clinical study reports, publications, pharmacovigilance activities, and safety monitoring meetings when required.
- Produce training materials, provide training to the Clinical Trial Team, and support study-level meetings.
- Develop therapeutic-area and clinical data review expertise and contribute to education and process development initiatives.
Essential Requirements
- An advanced degree in life sciences, healthcare, or a clinically relevant discipline is required.
- Master’s, PharmD, MPharm, PhD, MBBS, BDS, or MD is strongly preferred.
- One to two years of scientific, strategic, and operational clinical study experience, or three to four years in clinical operations or a clinical scientific role.
- Intermediate knowledge of planning, executing, reporting, and publishing global clinical studies.
- Good knowledge of Good Clinical Practice and drug development processes.
- Strong scientific knowledge in at least one therapeutic area.
- Knowledge of clinical data collection and reporting using systems and tools such as EDC systems and Excel.
- Analytical or computational background, trend detection ability, escalation judgment, and strong medical or scientific writing skills.
- Ability to collaborate across boundaries, resolve issues, and recognize when escalation is needed.
- Experience with Rave or OC-RDC is advantageous.
Workplace
- The role is based at the Hyderabad office in India.
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