Associate Director, Specimen Data & Systems

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Position Summary 

• This role is responsible for managing data flows across multiple external vendors and enabling reports from that data to ensure that biospecimens are tracked along the specimen journey, from collection to final disposition (use and destruction or storage.)   

• This role requires the ability to work effectively across a highly matrixed and global organization.   

• The role will serve as a primary source of specimen tracking information for Biospecimen Management teams.   

Duties/Responsibilities  

• Provide subject matter expertise in specimen meta-data and drive development and utilization of the BMS Specimen Management System (SMS).   

• Act as Business Owner for SMS, maintain health of the system and align with functional stakeholders to represent the end- user needs of SMS, including business strategy, requirements, user testing and implementation of new systems and enhancements.  

• Develop specimen routing plans to allow for ingestion of vendor inventory in SMS and alignment to the Specimen Management Plan.  

• Partner with IT to drive health of SMS and to evaluate software and developmental solutions for specimen tracking and specimen data acquisition.  

• Evaluate Data Quality in BMS SMS and other environments as needed.  Serve as escalation point to identify issues and troubleshoot solutions for effective resolution.  

• Drive standardization of specimen meta-data internally and externally with specimen vendor partners.  Provide Support for Onboarding of Vendors providing inventory data for consumption in SMS; Develop and review data specifications. 

• Specimen Data Quality: Support ongoing BMS specimen information cleaning efforts with Azenta and other vendors 

• Drive continuous improvement projects and automation (e.g., automating processes and driving standardization of key specimen meta-data with central and referral laboratory vendors)  

Reporting Relationship 

• Manager - Director, Specimen Library, Systems & Logistics 

Qualifications 

• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in clinical drug development.<