
Manager, Clinical Data Quality
Medtronic
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Mounds View • Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $129,600 - $194,400 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead a team responsible for ensuring high‑quality, reliable clinical study data across a global clinical research portfolio
- Partner closely with Clinical Operations, Data Management, Safety, Field Clinical teams, and Study Leadership to proactively monitor data quality
- Guide query resolution and ensure proactive data quality monitoring, effective query resolution, and ongoing inspection and milestone‑readiness
- Manage day‑to‑day execution and advance scalable, forward‑looking data quality practices through analytics, reporting, and process optimization
- Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development and engagement
- Oversee resource planning and allocation across studies, ensuring balanced workloads, clear prioritization, and alignment with portfolio needs and timelines
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and results‑oriented team culture
- Monitor data quality trends, performance metrics, and risk indicators, and implement corrective and preventive actions in collaboration with study teams
- Establish expectations, tools, and processes for effective query management, data cleaning, and issue escalation
- Review escalations, synthesize insights, and guide prioritization of actions to maintain study readiness for key milestones
- Serve as an escalation point for complex or cross‑study data quality challenges
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in clinical, biomedical, technical, or scientific discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of clinical research experience, Or an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of clinical research experience
- Prior people management or team leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience in clinical research data operations, including data quality oversight, query management, and data cleaning (Nice to Have)
- Experience partnering on or leveraging analytics, reporting, visualization, or automation solutions (e.g., Power BI, SQL, macros, AI‑enabled tools) (Nice to Have)
- Experience supporting global or multi‑study portfolios (Nice to Have)
- Background in field‑based clinical support or close collaboration with investigative sites (Nice to Have)
- Strong understanding of clinical research processes, study design, and data workflows (Nice to Have)
- Proven ability to analyze data trends and translate insights into operational improvements (Nice to Have)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work in a global, cross‑functional environment (Nice to Have)
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical researchdata quality oversightquery managementdata cleaninganalyticsreportingvisualizationautomation solutionsdata trends analysisstudy design
Soft Skills
team leadershipperformance managementfeedback provisioncareer development supportcollaborationresults orientationcommunication skillsproblem-solvingresource planningprioritization