2025 University Recruiting - Clinical Trial Data Management Intern

Job Description

The Future Talent Program features internships that last up to 12 weeks and will include one or more projects. These opportunities in our Research & Development Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals.

Our clinical team is recruiting for summer interns within the trial manager area of our company. The Trial Data Manager:

• Creates and ensures the successful execution of the clinical data management strategy for assigned trials within a specific drug/vaccine program. 

• Develops and manages project plans which span from protocol development through database lock. 

• Collaborates with appropriate functional areas to align resources and ensure all aspects of the project plan are executed on time and with appropriate quality. 

• Agrees/arbitrates deliverable-based commitments based on detailed knowledge of trial complexity and requirements.

• Manages change, customer and stakeholder expectations, facilitates cross-functional decision making, and performs risk management.

• Represents Global Data Management on cross-functional trial teams and in other trial-level development forums. 

• Under the guidance of more senior staff, may serve as the data management lead or perform a support role for filing programs.

• Participates in the development of, and ensures adherence to, our Company clinical data management procedures. Interacts with staff across multiple our Company sites. 

Primary Activities include but are not limited to:                                                      

• Develop detailed project plans for the collection, review, and cleaning of all clinical data for assigned trials within a specific drug / vaccine program.  Data includes, but is not limited to, case report form (CRF) data, lab data, biomarker data, and patient reported outcomes. 

• Serve as project manager of all clinical data management activities for trials as assigned.  Under the guidance of more senior staff when appropriate, uses excellent interpersonal, negotiating, and project management skills to perform and manage the following tasks: 

• Project planning, initiation, execution, change control, and closing. 

• Project team development, project team leadership, meeting management, and resource coordination. 

• Risk management planning (i.e., risk identification, analysis, response planning, monitoring, and control), including escalation as necessary. 

• Management of customer / stakeholder expectations; facilitation of cross-functional decisions. 

• Defines trial-level requirements for quality data collection and validation at the trial level. 

• Read and interpret the clinical protocol from a clinical data management perspective. 

• Provide clinical data management input into trial design, as appropriate, ensuring operational feasibility. 

• Engage with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to assess complexity, define trial-level data management requirements and inputs (including timing), and confirm all data management deliverables and services required for a trial. 

• Ensure appropriate use of standards and project-level consistency of database design, data collection, and validation. 

• Facilitate assessment and processing of standards and change requests. 

• Approve trial-level data validation plan (including project and protocol specific data validation elements). 

• Manage trial-level data quality and completion of database lock and post-database lock activities: 

• Monitor overall status and quality of data being collected during the in-life portion of a trial. 

• Engage with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to refine data management tools and validation plans, as appropriate. 

• Ensure activities required to achieve database lock (or data extraction) are completed by appropriate, responsible functional area. 

• Ensure timely archival of trial data and documentation. 

• Ensure timely decommissioning of clinical data management technologies. 

• Accountable for ensuring the successful execution of delivery of data management services provided by external partners engaged for outsourced trials, as assigned.

• Support site and sponsor audits, as appropriate. 

• Identify and support improvements to data collection and data management processes and tools. 

* Note: This position is located in Rahway, NJ or West Point, PA based on candidate preference.

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