Clinical Research Data Associate Manager

Stryker Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker in Irvine, CA is seeking a Clinical Research Data Associate Manager to serve as the data management lead for complex, high-visibility clinical studies. The role drives data collection strategies, manages vendors, and mitigates study risks while mentoring junior team members.

You will lead data management across the lifecycle, design CRFs/eCRFs, contribute to regulatory submissions, and ensure high-quality, inspection-ready data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of clinical data management experience
• Experience leading departmental initiatives
• Independent leadership across multiple complex studies

Responsibilities

• Lead data management activities across the study lifecycle
• Design, build, and maintain CRFs/eCRFs and data collection workflows
• Develop data management plans and timelines for data integrity and compliance
• Monitor milestones like go-live, database freeze/lock, and study closeout
• Lead data cleaning and issue resolution with corrective actions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support study execution and regulatory submissions
• Support validation, UAT, change control, and process improvements
• Generate data reports, dashboards, and study summaries; mentor staff

Skills

Clinical data management

Stakeholder collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

eCRF design

Job description

Stryker is hiring an Clinical Research Data Associate Manager in our Peripheral Vascular business to serve as the clinical data management lead for complex, high-visibility clinical studies and programs. This role provides strategic oversight of data management activities across the study lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and regulatory-compliant clinical data. The Associate Data Manager is recognized as a subject matter expert in clinical data management and partners with cross-functional stakeholders to develop data collection strategies, drive operational excellence, manage vendors, and mitigate study risks. The position independently leads data management activities for multiple studies while contributing to departmental initiatives, process improvements, standards development, and mentoring junior team members.

What you will do

• Lead clinical data management activities across the study lifecycle, including database planning, data review, query management, database freeze/lock readiness, study reporting, and study closeout activities.
• Design, build, and maintain clinical databases, CRFs/eCRFs, workflows, edit checks, and data collection processes aligned with protocol requirements and study objectives.
• Develop and execute data management plans, review strategies, timelines, and documentation to ensure data integrity, quality, compliance, and inspection readiness.
• Establish and monitor key study milestones, including database go-live, interim analyses, database freezes, database lock, data transfers, and archival activities.
• Lead data cleaning, review, and issue resolution activities by identifying trends, managing queries, investigating discrepancies, and implementing corrective actions to ensure accurate and reliable study data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Clinical Operations, Clinical Insights, Safety, Biostatistics, Programming, and Regulatory Affairs, to support study execution, reporting, regulatory submissions, and data-driven decision making.
• Support database validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), change control activities, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance data management processes, standards, and system performance.
• Generate data reports, metrics, dashboards, and study summaries; provide training, guidance, and oversight to study personnel and data management team members to promote consistent data quality practices.

What you need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 6+ years of clinical data management experience supporting clinical trials in the medical device, medical technology, or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience leading or contributing to departmental initiatives, strategic planning efforts, or organizational improvement projects.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading data management activities across multiple complex clinical studies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end clinical data management activities across multiple studies and throughout the study lifecycle.

• Advanced experience with CRF/eCRF design, clinical database development, edit check specification, validation, and UAT.

• Proficiency with SQL and/or other data review and reporting tools used to identify trends, data quality issues, and opportunities for process improvement.
  

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $110,100 - $183,400 USD Annual
• US5: $115,600 - $192,600 USD Annual
• US10: $121,100 - $201,700 USD Annual
• US15: $126,600 - $210,900 USD Annual
• US20: $132,100 - $220,100 USD Annual
• US30: $143,100 - $238,400 USD Annual

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