Merck
Director, Functional Area Geography Lead, Clinical Data Management
CRI - San Jose - San Jose (City Place) · Director · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 67 days ago
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About the role
- The Director, Functional Area Geography Lead provides strategic and operational oversight for all functional area activities within a defined geography and team.
- The role defines and executes regional plans, manages staff performance and succession, and ensures compliance with local and global requirements while fostering collaboration, innovation, and the adoption of standardized and digital data-management practices.
Responsibilities
- develop region-specific objectives aligned with organizational priorities.
- Lead or participate in cross-functional collaborations with non-GDMS (Global Data Management & Standards) partners and enterprise support functions to achieve geographic strategic and operational objectives.
- share lessons and maintain quality oversight across geographies.
- Define and lead the functional area's operating model and multi-year optimization strategy for the assigned geography, integrating functional area and GDMS global strategic objectives.
- Actively identify and support functional area-specific capability expansion aligned with industry best practices and business needs
- drive adoption of technology-deployment principles across relevant GCTO (Global Clinical Trial Operations) organizations.
- Drive high-quality, compliant, decision-ready data products and processes that enable teams to meet critical regulatory, clinical, and operational milestones within assigned functional area.
- Provide strategic direction within assigned country or region; ensure consistent execution, quality, and compliance; develop region-specific objectives aligned with organizational priorities.
- Communicate clear narratives to executives on risks, trade-offs, and decisions; champion innovation, automation, and risk-based data-management practices; share lessons and maintain quality oversight across geographies.
- Actively identify and support functional area-specific capability expansion aligned with industry best practices and business needs; drive adoption of technology-deployment principles across relevant GCTO (Global Clinical Trial Operations) organizations.
Requirements
- No Travel Required
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills:
Skills
- Ability to use operational and quality metrics to monitor performance
- Understanding of data privacy and system validation requirements.
- Ability to define and enforce standards for integration, reuse, and scalability of data, tools, and solutions across regions.
- Experience implementing risk-based, digital, or automated data-management practices or tools.
- Proficiency with workload planning and resourcing systems
- familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies.
- Understanding of local and global regulatory requirements, including 21 CFR Part 11.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end data management processes, including how data is collected, reviewed/cleaned, governed, and reported.
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Compensation
- Conduct regular check-ins and annual reviews; coach for performance; provide recognition.
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