Pfizer

Central Monitor (Manager) - Risk Based Monitoring

Posted on: 15 Mar 2021

Groton, CT

Job Description

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidenced based, medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.

What You Will Achieve

As part of the Data Monitoring and Management group, an integral delivery unit within the Global Biometrics and Data Management (GBDM) organization, the Central Monitor (CM) is responsible for timely and high quality risk-based monitoring analytics supporting the Pfizer portfolio. The Central Monitor will support an approach to clinical trial monitoring which utilizes data and site level information to determine needs for performing on-site, remote and centralized activities and focuses resources on risks that have the most potential to impact patients safety and data quality.

It is your dedication and focus that will help make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

General

* Implement global strategies, initiatives, processes, and standards to ensure consistent, efficient, and quality processes to meet quality, timelines and deliverables.
* Provide technical expertise to set up and test study level Risk-based Monitoring system
* Review study level system outputs to process for the signal and action management
* Plan and execute communication plans & methods to ensure customer satisfaction and enable improvements to be implemented during the course of a study.
* Able to resolve conflicts, influence and communicate cross-functionally with key stakeholders and customers.

System setup Functions:

* Set up and test RBM- Central Monitoring Analytics system at study level to ensure system quality.
* Define key risk indicators (KRIs) in study system, and ensure consistency between the standard level and the study level.
* Ensure RBM system alignment with the protocol and adherence to ICH GCP, SOPs, corporate standards and regulatory requirements.

Data review Functions:

* Work with Study Team to define the issue resolution for the review of findings as signals and actions.
* Develop, implement and maintain Quality Control related documentation for RBM related activities to ensure data completeness and accuracy.
* Perform central monitoring activities including review system outputs, propose suggestions for signal and action management, and follow up with study team for the action resolutions.
* Work with Clinical Data Scientist (CDS) to ensure all signals and actions are properly mitigated and RBM systems properly released.

Qualifications

Must-Have

* Bachelor's Degree in a scientific or business related discipline.
* 5+ years experience in data management/programming or data mining.
* Technical expertise and business experience in supporting clinical trials database development, data management, site monitoring, etc.
* Thorough understanding of the processes associated with clinical study management, data management, and regulatory operations.
* Project management skills and technical capabilities as well as effective verbal and written communication skills in relating to colleagues and associates both inside and outside the organization.
* Works independently, receives instruction primarily on unusual situations
* Ability to organize tasks, time and priorities; ability to multi-task
* Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with internal & external stakeholders, locally and globally

Nice-to-Have

* Working knowledge of clinical development process, understanding concepts of Phase I-IV and principles of study design
* Previous experience within a data management role, understanding key processes and principles associated with role including CRF design, database set-up, edit check specification, DMPs and data cleaning activities
* Knowledge of clinical trial database and its applications
* Knowledge of Windows Environment and its applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.)
* Experience in Oracle, PL/SQL, SAS, Java, relational database design and database programming skills
* Knowledge of basic statistical principles
* Ability to travel up to ~15%.

Employee Referral Eligible

Remote based will be considered

Sunshine Act

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.

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Pfizer

New York, New York

Pfizer Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells healthcare products worldwide. It offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including internal medicine, vaccines, oncology, inflammation and immunology, and rare diseases under the Lyrica, Chantix/Champix, Eliquis, Ibrance, Sutent, Xalkori, Inlyta, Xtandi, Enbrel, Xeljanz, Eucrisa, BeneFix, Genotropin, and Refacto AF/Xyntha brands. The company also provides consumer healthcare products that comprise over-the-counter medicines, including dietary supplement products under the Centrum, Caltrate, and Emergen-C names; pain management products under the Advil and ThermaCare names; gastrointestinal products under the Nexium 24HR/Nexium Control and Preparation H names; and respiratory and personal care products under the Robitussin, Advil Cold & Sinus, and ChapStick names. In addition, it offers products that would lose or have lost marketing patent protection; branded generic products; generic sterile injectable products; biosimilars; and anti-infectives under the Lipitor, Premarin family, Norvasc, Lyrica, Celebrex, Viagra, Inflectra/Remsima, Zyvox, Vfend, Revatio, Inspra, Medrol, Sulperazon, Fragmin, Tygacil, Nivestim, and Retacrit, Ixifi Infliximab BS names.

Further, the company is also involved in the contract manufacturing business. It serves wholesalers, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, pharmacies, and individual provider offices, as well as disease control and prevention centers. The company has collaboration and/or co-promotion agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Astellas Pharma US, Inc., and Oncolytics Biotech Inc.; licensing agreement with BionTech AG; strategic alliance with Verily Life Sciences LLC; and collaboration agreements with Pfizer, Merck & Co., Inc., and Eli Lilly & Company, as well as with Merck KGaA and Nektar Therapeutics to develop a therapy for treating pancreatic cancer. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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