Director, Program Data Lead
Role Overview
Major accountabilities:
• Lead end-to-end clinical data strategy execution across programs, ensuring alignment with business objectives, DU priorities, and enterprise standards.
• Drive consistency and quality across trials through standardized data collection, review, cleaning, and delivery approaches.
• Own portfolio-level prioritization, coordination, dependency management, and integration of data strategies across multiple programs.
• Provide people leadership, coaching, mentoring, and performance oversight for Program Leads while developing organizational capability.
• Serve as the primary escalation and decision-making authority for program-level data, delivery, quality, and stakeholder issues
• Represent Clinical Data Operations (CDO) in Global Clinical Teams (GCTs) and GCO governance forums, delivering unified program-level data strategy direction.
• Embed data strategy, vendor strategy, and operational delivery considerations into program execution plans and Operational Delivery Strategies (ODS).
• Ensure proactive risk management, issue resolution, Quality by Design implementation, and adherence to lean data principles across the portfolio.
• Collaborate with standards, vendor, and delivery teams to drive scalable, fit-for-purpose solutions and continuous improvement of data strategy practices.
• Enhance program predictability, stakeholder experience, and operational excellence while contributing to DU-level capability, resource, and operating model decisions.
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Skills
- Desired
- Clinical Trials, Data Architecture Development, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Science, Drug Development, Global Project Management, People Management
Qualifications
- Clinical Trials, Data Architecture Development, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Science, Drug Development, Global Project Management, People Management
Preferred Qualifications
- Desired
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