Senior Director, Clinical Data Standards & Governance

MSD; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Senior Director, Data Collection Data Steward to join the GCDS Leadership Team. You will set strategy, oversee standards delivery, governance, and operations, and drive enterprise metrics while leading talent and communications across GDMS/GCTO/GCD with external partnerships.

You will guide data collection standard definitions, participate in governance initiatives, and mentor the Global Clinical Data Standards team to ensure consistency with industry regulations and CDISC

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 13 years’ experience in Clinical Data Management (or related discipline).
• 3 years needs to be in clinical data standards development or metadata management.
• Minimum of 5 years people management experience (direct or matrix).
• Demonstrated deep subject matter expertise.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and guidance to teams as they define and maintain standard data collection definitions aligned with industry standards and Health Authority regulations.
• Identify opportunities, lead, or participate in organizational initiatives as needed.
• Support audits and inspections as required.
• Accountable for the management and timely delivery of standards and governance deliverables, coordinating efforts across GCDS sub-units.
• Provide oversight and strategic direction to the design and delivery of Standards training and best practices to cross functional teams.
• Provide oversight and strategic direction to teams in the development of training materials, training delivery, and mentoring of the Global Clinical Data Standards team.
• Act as a leader in industry forums, maintaining network of contacts, and influence industry strategic direction and clinical data standards development.
• Build and sustain senior stakeholder networks across GDMS/GCTO/GCD and strategic partners.
• Provide oversight and expertise within one or multiple TAs on data collection/data transformation design and data modeling.
• Lead cross-functional strategic projects and participate in governance initiatives.
• Serve as escalation point for study-level design and governance decisions.
• Develop future standards libraries and new/modified processes.
• Develop strategic direction for new processes and tools supporting clinical data standards.
• Communicate implementation plans to cross-functional stakeholders and executive management.
• Provide prioritization and oversight of standards metrics.
• Communicate metrics to Executive Leadership.
• Work with GCDS leadership on Book of Business and governance demands.

Job description

Merck is seeking a Senior Director, Data Collection Data Steward to join the GCDS Leadership Team. You will set strategy, oversee standards delivery, governance, and operations, and drive enterprise metrics while leading talent and communications across GDMS/GCTO/GCD with external partnerships.

You will guide data collection standard definitions, participate in governance initiatives, and mentor the Global Clinical Data Standards team to ensure consistency with industry regulations and CDISC