
Senior Scientist, Study Manager
MSD
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: North Wales • California • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $117,000 - $184,200 per year
Job Level
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About the role
- This position leads the operational planning and execution of one or more clinical trials or significant aspects thereof.
- Responsible for the operational planning, feasibility, and execution of a clinical trial.
- May serve as the clinical trial team lead
- May lead team in key study planning, development, and execution elements (e.g., data management deliverables, trial level plans/timelines, country/site selection, site materials, system updates, investigator meeting planning, communication plans, preparation of status update reports, study close out activities).
- Leads team for timeline management, risk identification and mitigation, issue resolution.
- May facilitate and collaborate with key internal/external stakeholders (e.g., study team, country teams, vendors, committees) in support of clinical study objectives.
- Accountable for managing any study specific partners and/or vendors.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree +5 years of pharmaceutical, clinical drug development, project management, and/or medical field experience OR Master's Degree +3 year of pharmaceutical, clinical drug development, project management, and/or medical field experience OR PhD/PharmD Degree
- Degree in life sciences, preferred
- Experience in conducting global clinical trials, including trial initiation through database lock
- Highly Preferred: experience in conducting clinical trials in ophthalmology, such as uveitis, AMD (age-related macular degeneration), thyroid eye disease
- Experience in managing and driving operational activities on protocols for ophthalmology clinical trials.
- Experience with imaging vendors, clinical outcome assessments, biomarker sample collection and management, and external data monitoring committee for ophthalmology clinical trials.
- Experience in managing imaging vendors for ophthalmology clinical trials
- Experience with ophthalmologic assessments, e.g. (slit lamp, dilated indirect ophthalmoscopy {DIO}, imaging assessments such as optical coherence tomography {OCT}; fluorescein angiography {FA}, fundus photography {FP} and visual acuity assessments such as best corrected visual acuity {BCVA}) performed and as well as supplies and equipment needed at sites in ophthalmology clinical trials.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical trial managementoperational planningfeasibility assessmentdata managementtimeline managementrisk identificationissue resolutionophthalmologic assessmentsbiomarker sample collectionclinical outcome assessments
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstakeholder management