Program Manager, Clinical Data Science

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Program Manager, Clinical Data Science

As a Program Manager, Clinical Data Science at ICON, you will oversee and coordinate data science initiatives within clinical programs, providing leadership and delivery oversight across clinical data science activities, including data management, clinical systems and clinical data risk.

You will play a key role in coordinating clinical data science delivery, resolving complex issues, developing team capability and ensuring successful project delivery across your assigned projects and client partnerships.

What You Will Do

Your focus will be on coordinating clinical data science delivery, resolving issues, developing team capability and providing oversight across projects and programs.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Managing the end-to-end execution of clinical data science programs, including planning, resource allocation and delivery of data science projects within scope, time and budget constraints.
• Coordinating with data scientists, statisticians, clinical researchers and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on project objectives, data requirements and analytical approaches.
• Developing and maintaining program plans, timelines and budgets, and monitoring progress to ensure timely and successful completion of data science initiatives.
• Providing strategic oversight and guidance on data science methodologies, ensuring analyses are rigorous, valid and aligned with clinical and regulatory standards.
• Communicating program status, insights and outcomes to stakeholders, including executive leadership, and addressing issues or risks that may impact program success.
• Applying expert knowledge of clinical data science activities, including data management, clinical systems and clinical data risk.
• Understanding protocol content in the context of clinical data management and clinical data science delivery.
• Providing consultation on clinical data science best practices, including processes, systems and regulations.
• Overseeing project status and escalating potential problems effectively and in a timely manner, ensuring functional management and those responsible for project management are informed of critical issues that may affect project target dates, scope or budget.
• Working independently and, as required, managing escalations with clients, external customers and internal departments.
• Acting as a point of escalation internally and externally.
• Being accountable for all CDS project delivery milestones, internal reporting and progress reports for assigned projects.
• Holding primary accountability for delivery oversight of CDS standalone projects.
• Providing oversight across a number of clients or program work within a client partnership.
• Supporting clinical data science strategic plans at client level.
• Reviewing project proposals and attending bid defences as a representative of the function when required.
• Undertaking analysis and investigation to identify and define complex problems where limited precedent or guidance may be available, while anticipating future issues.
• Other responsibilities may be assigned as required.

Financial Management

You will also have responsibility for the financial oversight of projects within your span, including:

• Performing financial reviews of projects under your span.
• Guiding project teams with respect to out-of-scope tasks.
• Oversight management and forecasting within the financial tool utilised.
• Reviewing financial documentation and assessing preparedness relating to all clinical data science activities from planning through data delivery and close-out.
• Approving Worked Units, Forecasted Units and project invoices monthly.
• Leadership
• Strong leadership and project management skills.
• Acts as an established mentor and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Accountable for all CDS project delivery milestones and internal reporting and progress reports for assigned projects.
• Holds primary accountability for delivery oversight for CDS standalone projects.

Your Profile

You will have solid clinical data science experience, with the ability to manage competing priorities and develop your team. You will bring expert knowledge of clinical data science activities across data management, clinical systems and clinical data risk, together with strong leadership and project management skills.

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