Senior Manager - Data Standards (Hybrid)

Company Description

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Clinical Data and Reporting Standards (CDARS) proactively participates in the development of data and reporting standards in support of AbbVie’s portfolio of clinical trials, and ensuring AbbVie’s conformance to CDISC standards and industry best practices. This role implements the strategy and framework for governance of standards as set by the Head and Associate Directors of CDARS, and actively engages in deployment of next generation process and technology.

Responsibilities:

• Lead or participate in a cross-functional team of subject matter experts to define at least one of the following types of standards within the assigned therapeutic area: Data Collection, Data Review Rules, SDTM mapping, ADaM mapping and derivation, Study-level tables, listings, or figures, Product-level safety analysis displays
• Ensure each standard is clearly defined, with appropriate documentation of relevant assumptions and decisions related to its use to support pipeline activities
• Support educating the organization on the proper use of standards in pipeline activities by contributing to the development of training materials; communicate ongoing standard development activities across the organization
• Provide feedback on CRF design and SDTM datasets to ensure data are collected and represented in a manner that support regulatory requirements to comply with CDISC standards (CDASH, SDTM and ADaM) and AbbVie standard extensions to CDISC
• Review and provide feedback on SDTM Trial Design Domains
• Oversee the creation of SDTM define.xml, annotated CRF and Clinical Study Data Reviewer’s Guides for both FDA and PMDA submissions
• Consult on conformance issues for SDTM and/or ADaM and work with the study team to resolve the problem either by correcting the data or metadata, or by providing an appropriate explanation
• Other responsibilities include: representing AbbVie’s interests in industry standards development projects; staying current with industry standards such as CDISC, and the regulatory requirements related to their use; identifying improvements to the processes and content of standards, and driving those improvements to completion
• May manage 3 or more direct reports

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• MS with 9 years of relevant clinical research experience, or BS with 11 years of relevant clinical research experience
• Experience leading development of standards for data collection, tabulation, analysis and/or reporting
• Experience with at least two of the following standards: CDASH, SDTM, ADaM, Analysis Results Metadata, or TLF standards
• Experience with preparing SDTM and/or ADaM datasets and documentation for regulatory submissions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active participation in CDISC teams
• SAS or R programming experience
• Experience creating SDTM specifications or training others to use SDTM

Additional Information

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. ​

• 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. ​

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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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