Data Management Lead — CRO Operations & Delivery

BioAgilytix; North Carolina; On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance (HDHP or PPO)

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with Employer Match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

BioAgilytix in Durham, NC is seeking a Manager, Data Management to lead a new function supporting laboratory and bioanalytical data in a CRO environment. This hands-on leader will hire, develop, and supervise the Data Management team, ensuring timely delivery, data integrity, and compliance.

The role requires CRO data management experience, senior leadership, and strong collaboration with PM, QA, IT, and operations to streamline processes and enable scalable data operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, health sciences, clinical research, business, or related field.
• 6 years of CRO, laboratory, clinical, or data operations experience, including regulated data-delivery experience.
• 2-4 years of people-leadership experience in a regulated operations environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily and weekly Data Management execution, including work assignment, staffing coverage, workload balancing, and team performance to support timely delivery.
• Own daily plan adherence and weekly schedule attainment; identify at-risk work, take recovery actions within authority, and escalate blockers before commitments are missed.
• Ensure first-pass quality, documentation completeness, data integrity, traceability, review readiness, and reduction of avoidable rework across assigned outputs.
• Coordinate handoffs with PM, PI, OM, QA, QC, SM, Finance, and IT/System Owners so dependencies, acceptance criteria, and accountability are clear.
• Identify and escalate delivery, quality, compliance, data-integrity, system, and capacity risks within required timeframes; maintain blocker/action visibility.

Skills

People leadership

Data management

Regulated data standards

KPIs and reporting

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

LIMS

Data-management platforms

Microsoft Office & analytics tools

Job description

BioAgilytix in Durham, NC is seeking a Manager, Data Management to lead a new function supporting laboratory and bioanalytical data in a CRO environment. This hands-on leader will hire, develop, and supervise the Data Management team, ensuring timely delivery, data integrity, and compliance.

The role requires CRO data management experience, senior leadership, and strong collaboration with PM, QA, IT, and operations to streamline processes and enable scalable data operations.