Associate Director, Clinical Data Management

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Arden Hills; US-MA-Bedford; US-MA-Boston; US-MA-Burlington; US-MA-Cambridge; US-MA-Lexington; US-MA-Lowell; US-MA-Marlborough; US-MA-Natick; US-MA-Quincy; US-MA-Western/Springfield; US-MA-Worcester; US-MN-Mankato/Rochester; US-MN-Maple Grove; US-MN-Minneapolis; US-MN-Minnetonka; US-MN-Northern/Duluth; US-MN-Plymouth

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

About the role: 
This global role is responsible for managing a substantial part of the Clinical Data Management team within the Global Clinical Operations (GCO) department. With the recent centralization of Clinical Data Management into a Center of Excellence, this role will be pivotal in shaping the future of data management across divisions by fostering greater collaboration and alignment. This is a unique opportunity to make an impact across all BSC Clinical divisions and regions. By collaborating with clinical core team members, this role ensures that Clinical Data Management activities are executed consistently and in compliance with regulatory, corporate, and clinical policies and procedures. The incumbent will also play a key role in shaping new process improvements and will influence strategic discussions related to new technologies.

This role will contribute to and adhere to the Clinical department budget, facilitate the appropriate functional resourcing of projects and programs, and ensure staff training and development. The incumbent will also be responsible for defining and providing meaningful functional metrics to support the clinical organization.
This role will interface with other departments, senior Clinical management, medical directors, senior functional management, and may act as the BSC representative with CROs or vendors.

This is a hybrid position (in office minimum three days per week) with the flexibility to be located in Arden Hills MN or Marlborough, MA. You will have the opportunity to discuss your preferred working location with your Talent Acquisition Specialist.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leads an area within the Clinical Data Management function directly and will be responsible for managing staff based on a combination of the number of people and the type/level of direct reports and responsible for training, mentoring, development, and supervising of clinical staff in accordance with BSC policies.
• Develops staffing plans for the clinical function and makes hiring decisions and leverages/allocates appropriate resources to support the clinical organization and interfaces with Project and Program Managers / Directors and other management to develop objectives for clinical functions and to gather performance feedback.
• Manages interpersonal issues and manages conflict resolutions.
• Ensures that best practices of study conduct are leveraged across the clinical organization and implements process efficiencies where possible and provides guidance to foster global alignment among staff, directly or through other line managers.
• Responsible for the provision of meaningful metrics to support the clinical organization and ensures staff is trained on the study specific materials, which include protocols, study tools, etc.
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of and ensures staff adheres to the appropriate application of clinical research conduct, laws, regulations, and standards, and compliance with applicable BSC SOPs and policies.
• Responsible to determine, implement and execute vendor oversight activities for outsourced functional tasks.
• May lead initiatives that improve efficiencies of functional processes.
• Applies knowledge of business and industry drivers and the factors that maximize performance of area(s)managed; interprets and monitors business trends and market developments to contribute to plans to address business challenges
• Identifies and resolves complex functional technical, operational and organizational problems
• Applies professional expertise to recommend solutions and preemptively solves problems with considerations for potential broader impact and applicability to the area, with guidance only in the most complex situations
• Develops implementation strategies for developed solutions
• Makes decisions that impact the business results of area –including the support, prioritization, and funding of projects, products, services and/