Associate Director, Data Management Operations - Oncology Early Development

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

*Must be willing to come onsite to Lake County, IL 3 days/week

The Associate Director, Clinical Data Operations, is a leader of the whole data management functions within Clinical Data Operation and Reporting (CDOR) in Oncology Early Development (OED) Clinical Development Organization.  The clinical data operation group is countable for ensuring optimized data operations and delivery of high-quality data for AbbVie’s OED entire clinical trial portfolio through oversight of CRO delivery.  The Associate Director leads the recruitment and training of new staff onboarding activities, manage the overall resource allocation and monitoring on regular basis, provide technical guidance for team members, performs ongoing and annual performance management and staff career development, initiate and lead data management operation related process improvement collaborating with CRO partners, create a collaborative team work environment for both internal staff as well as with CRO partners, build strong relationship with internal and external stakeholders.  This person may also need to support clinical projects if needed, therefore having extensive years of experience in CRF design, fundamental database build knowledge, query management, and 3rd party vendor data management are fundamental to the success of this role.   The associate director may engage innovative projects related to enhancing data collection efficiencies, broader AbbVie data standards initiatives, etc.              

Responsibilities:

•Assists CDOR head to develop overall strategic development roadmap within the context of clinical development organizational mission and OED vision.

•Build strong connections with various functions and stakeholders to ensure their business needs are met and promote cross functional collaborations.

• Lead the clinical data management operation functions process improvement initiatives
• Provide coaching of staff to ensure they meet department expectations and build career development path

•Facilitates the creation and convergence of technologies used for clinical trial data management and vendor oversight.

•Builds and leads high-performing teams who focus on speed, quality, and agility as measurements of value

•Forms value-add, collaborative partnership with service providers

•Bachelor’s degree or comparable experience. Preferred degrees include health, life science, mathematics, management information systems, business, or data analytics. 10 years of experience. Master’s degree is preferred.
•Proven skill in therapeutic area and program strategy development and in converting strategy to execution of data collection and management
•Ability to influence without direct authority
•Considerable experience with obtaining and maintaining key support in a matrix environment
•Exemplary communication and presentation skills
•Record of successful direct people leadership or significant leadership in matrix environment

•A minimum of 2-5 years of management experience preferred

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​ Salary: $137,500 - $261,000

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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