Director, Clinical Data Management

PTC Therapeutics is a global commercial biopharmaceutical company. For over 25 years our team has been deeply committed to a unified purpose:
Extending life’s moments for children and adults living with a rare disease.

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Candidates local to the Warren, NJ area are strongly preferred for our flexible hybrid work model. We welcome applicants who are open to relocating to the area.

The Director, Clinical Data Management provides strategic and operational leadership and oversight of data management activities to ensure the quality, integrity, consistency and inspection readiness of clinical databases for subsequent analysis, reporting and regulatory submissions. This position has a leadership role to proactively develop plans for the utilization of EDC system processes and other clinical data applications that allow for internal control of clinical databases.

This position will lead/contribute in defining Sponsor processes and procedures for maintaining clinical data and the associated Quality Assurance (QA) Quality Control (QC) documentation.

She/He may have supervisory responsibilities for both internal staff and external consultants and may manage direct reports.

The incumbent works cross-functionally with various internal departments and external resources on Data Management related issues.

The Director, Clinical Data Management, ensures adherence to relevant regulatory requirements and company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as appropriate.

Primary duties/responsibilities:

• Ensure the data collected meets the requirements of the study objective and company quality standards.
• Drives the development and implementation of strategic vision for data management (DM) group.
• Provide functional oversight of CROs to prepare and ensure proper execution of data management plans and manage data management projects from beginning to end.
• Partners with Clinical Operations group, biostatisticians, SAS programmers and other staff as appropriate to design and develop data collection instruments (e.g., eCRF's) to ensure the required information is captured for statistical analysis.
• Oversee and as needed, directly support coding review for adverse events, medical history and concomitant medications and coordinate medical monitor review and approval of medical coding
• Lead data management activities, clinical database cleaning in EDC, data reconciliation with external vendor data, SAE reconciliation and lock activities.
• Lead development of data management plans, data review plans, supervise database development, and reviewing and processing of clinical trial data to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of clinical trials data.
• Prepare and distribute or facilitate distribution of periodic reports of study status including, case report form (CRF) completion status, missing pages, query aging, clean patient tracker (CPT), etc.
• Participate in cross functional team meetings, as requested, and communicate with all departments regarding project statuses/issues, provide ongoing feedback on data management workflows to increase efficiency and provide feedback to CRAs.
• Lead interactions with outside vendors (e.g., clinical laboratories) on collection, transmittal, and transfer of study specific data.
• Develop and update SOP's and other documents associated with the data collection, handling, and review processes, e.g., Working Instructions (WI), Best Practices Documents (BPD) to meet regulatory compliance and operational needs.
• Facilitates and contributes to regulatory submissions and audit/inspection activities.
• Gathers requirements related to existing clinical systems to identify opportunities to enhance, improve and streamline processes and systems use.
• Leads the assessment and selection of Data Management vendors and systems for clinical data collection and analysis.
• Participate in clinical review and…