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Associate Director Data Analyst

Role overview

Summary

The Associate Director Data Analyst role at ICON Strategic Solutions focuses on supporting the design of clinical programs and trials by integrating internal and external data. This position plays a crucial role in enhancing clinical trial design efficiency and effectiveness, contributing to the development of treatments that benefit patients globally.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific, analytic, or health-related field.
  • 3 - 5 years experience in drug development or science-related field.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and communicate data, insights, and recommendations from various sources to support clinical trial placement processes.
  • Create and adapt queries to extract data for analysis on clinical design questions.
  • Extract and curate data from multiple sources to build integrated datasets and visualizations.
  • Lead the evaluation and use of real-world data assets to inform design.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Collaboration

About the company

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ICON plc

  • Clinical Research (CRO)
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Since our foundation in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, our mission has been to help our clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life. We do this by delivering best in class information, solutions and performance, with an unyielding focus on quality at all times. We offer a full range of consulting, development and commercialisation services from a global network of offices in 53 countries. We focus our innovation on the factors that are critical to our clients – reducing time to market, reducing cost, and increasing quality – and our global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas.

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Job description

Associate Director, Data Analyst

At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise.


As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide.


The purpose of the Associate Director Analysis role is to support the design of clinical programs and trials by bringing together internal and external data and information (e.g. contemporary information on standard of care across the globe, understanding of patient pathways that can make trials more accessible within those geographies, interpretation of disease prevalence, etc.), analyses and insights to drive excellence in clinical trial design, enabling more efficient planning and execution to speed medicines to patients.


What You Will Do:

  • Analyze, create visualizations in support of, and communicate data, insights, and recommendations from information in various internal and external sources to support processes around the placement of clinical trials and other key analysis that could span CDDA leaders, functions, and teams.
  • Create and adapt queries to extract vital data from internal and external data sources for prompt analysis on clinical design questions
  • Extract and curate data from multiple data sources to build integrated datasets and visualizations that will drive recommendations and decisions
  • Partner cross-functionally to ensure consistency, completeness and robustness in data feeding into core analytic capabilities
  • Apply novel techniques to add efficiency and automation into Clinical Trial Design and CDDA capabilities
  • Responsible for driving standardization in design within and across therapeutic areas via development and management of taxonomies
  • Lead the evaluation and use of real-world data assets to inform design
  • Manage data source vendor relationships and contracts alongside with procurement

Your Profile:



Required qualifications and experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific, analytic, or health-related field
  • 3 - 5 years experience in drug development or science-related field

Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.


Rewards & Benefits

ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.


Benefits may include:

  • Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
  • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
  • Retirement and pension plans
  • Life assurance and disability coverage
  • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
  • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

Benefits may vary depending on role and location.


Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.


Inclusion and Accessibility

ICON is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.


If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know or submit a request here.


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