ViiV Healthcare - Data Sciences Manager

ViiV Healthcare is a global specialty HIV company, the only one that is 100% focused on researching and delivering new medicines for people living with, and at risk of, HIV. ViiV is highly mission-driven in our unrelenting commitment to being a trusted partner for all people living with and affected by HIV. Our aim is to think, act, and connect differently through a focus on education on and treatment for HIV. We go to extraordinary lengths to deliver the sorts of breakthroughs, both in treatments, care solutions and communities, that really count. We go beyond the boundaries of medicine by taking a holistic approach to HIV through developing and supporting sustainable community programs and improving access to care.

We are fully committed to push through every challenge until HIV/AIDS is eradicated. ViiV has played a significant part in delivering breakthroughs that have turned HIV into a manageable health condition. We offer the largest portfolio of HIV medicines available anywhere, and we continue our work to cater for the widest possible range of needs in response to the HIV epidemic. We are aware of how much is at stake for those affected by HIV and we show up every day 100% committed to the patients. Our work culture is fast-paced, diverse, inclusive, competitive, and caring. But ViiV isn’t just somewhere to work – it’s a place to belong, an invitation to bring your very best, and a team full of impact-driven team members who are hungry to make a difference.

While we have been improving lives of HIV patients for 30 years, this is an especially exciting time to be at ViiV, as we evaluate novel approaches to treatment and prevention that could further reduce the impact of HIV on individuals and communities.

The Data Sciences Manager will provide leadership and support relating to the Quantitative Data Sciences (Data Management) areas of statistics, statistical programming, and clinical data management for ViiV Healthcare (VH) for one or more programs.

This is a remote role but will need to be able to support eastern time zone work hours.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Apply expertise relating to Data Management to specific products throughout their VH life cycle.
• Support Data Management product and project strategy in alignment with VH strategy.
• Assist the manager implement global strategies, initiatives, processes, and standards to ensure consistent, efficient, and quality processes.
• Filing and working in TMF systems
• Manage study timelines across projects.
• Liaise and maintain working relationships with internal and external partners.
• Design, develop and apply quality methods and solutions for issue detection, trend analysis, and process performance analysis.
• Responsible for data quality working in systems, using SAS, reporting findings to various team members.
• Local lab reconciliation, identifying outliers, issues, missing tests.
• PK reconciliation, identifying outliers, issues, missing tests.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of data management delivery standards, SOPs, and work instructions, including output QC, validation, and documentation.
• Lead and deliver data management technical knowledge and expertise to support other ViiV functional team members.
• Responsible to contribute input into CDISC, SDTM, new variables/new standard form requests.
• Responsible to review and comment on Clinical Study Protocols, Data Management Plans, study specifications, eCRF, aCRF, data entry guidelines and other CDM related documents.
• Member of and key contributor to various ViiV Healthcare teams (Medicine Development, Clinical Matrix, Global Collaborative Trials, Data Dissemination, etc.…).  Effective partnership with Medicines Development Leaders, Clinical Investigations Leaders, and others.
•  Direct collaboration with and oversight of 3rd parties in fulfillment of responsibilities supporting VH programs, including capacity management and trouble-shooting problems related to project delivery.
• Provides Data Management training and education to various areas of the company.
• Consults with Programming and Statistics colleagues regarding deliverables relating to programming and statistics activities, including but not limited to: database set up, data standards (CDISC), analysis database conversions (e.g., SDTM), data repository, and data re-use.
• Global (indirect) leadership and oversight of third-party suppliers of project level data management resource (e.g. GSK) to ViiV Healthcare. 
• Responsible for manual review of datasets at times of deliverables for ViiV Healthcare.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor Degree in Science.with 7+ years of Data Management experience for drug development.
• 5 plus years of leadership experience in a matrix environment, including influence and negotiation with the business
• Experience leading Data Management aspects from study design to final analysis and dissemination
• Direct experience in developing and delivering presentations

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Nursing degree
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including relationship building and maintenance

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The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $145,350 to $196,650 taking into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program ViiV offers US employees. All ViiV employees receive the same benefits options and plans as GSK employee.

Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV. 

We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.

Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a diverse team and a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.

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ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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