Associate Director Data Analyst

ICON plc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Health insurance

Retirement planning

LifeWorks EAP

Life assurance

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

ICON Strategic Solutions seeks an Associate Director, Data Analyst to support clinical program design by integrating internal and external data, interpreting disease prevalence, and delivering insights for trial optimization. The role emphasizes robust data handling, standardized design, and leveraging real-world data assets to inform strategic decisions.

The position focuses on designing queries, building integrated datasets, and communicating actionable results across CDDA leaders and teams,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, analytic, or health-related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in drug development or science-related field.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, create visualizations and communicate data, insights and recommendations from multiple sources to support placement of clinical trials and related analyses across leaders, functions and teams.
• Create and adapt queries to extract vital data from internal and external sources for prompt analysis on clinical design questions.
• Extract and curate data from multiple sources to build integrated datasets and visualizations that drive recommendations and decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure data feeding into core analytic capabilities is complete and robust.
• Apply novel techniques to increase efficiency and automation in Clinical Trial Design and CDDA capabilities.
• Lead standardization in design within and across therapeutic areas via taxonomy development and management.
• Lead evaluation and use of real-world data assets to inform design.
• Manage data source vendor relationships and contracts with procurement.

Skills

Data analysis

Data visualization

Cross-functional collaboration

Clinical trial design understanding

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific/analytic/health-related field

Job description

Associate Director, Data Analyst

At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise.

As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide.

The purpose of the Associate Director Analysis role is to support the design of clinical programs and trials by bringing together internal and external data and information (e.g. contemporary information on standard of care across the globe, understanding of patient pathways that can make trials more accessible within those geographies, interpretation of disease prevalence, etc.), analyses and insights to drive excellence in clinical trial design, enabling more efficient planning and execution to speed medicines to patients.

What You Will Do:

• Analyze, create visualizations in support of, and communicate data, insights, and recommendations from information in various internal and external sources to support processes around the placement of clinical trials and other key analysis that could span CDDA leaders, functions, and teams.
• Create and adapt queries to extract vital data from internal and external data sources for prompt analysis on clinical design questions
• Extract and curate data from multiple data sources to build integrated datasets and visualizations that will drive recommendations and decisions
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure consistency, completeness and robustness in data feeding into core analytic capabilities
• Apply novel techniques to add efficiency and automation into Clinical Trial Design and CDDA capabilities
• Responsible for driving standardization in design within and across therapeutic areas via development and management of taxonomies
• Lead the evaluation and use of real-world data assets to inform design
• Manage data source vendor relationships and contracts alongside with procurement

Your Profile:

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific, analytic, or health-related field
• 3 - 5 years experience in drug development or science-related field

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know.