Clinical Data Risk Analyst

Clinical Data Risk Analyst - Mexico, Mexico City - Home or office based

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

What you will bring:

The CDRA role requires both an understanding of how clinical research is conducted and proficiency in data analysis techniques. For this entry-level role, successful candidates will be either life sciences graduates with experience in clinical research and a keen interest in data, or STEM graduates with a strong understanding of human behavior.

The Clinical Risk Management team are experts on the prediction, detection, and resolution of data quality issues that could compromise the reliability of clinical trials. During the start-up phase, they use their proficiency in protocol analysis and data review planning to support the team in the identification of potential risks to the trial. Once the study gets underway, they continuously review the data as it comes in to detect new issues as they arise. Through this adaptive approach, the CRM team reduces the time to detection for major issues and lowers the probability of losing critical trial data.

The Clinical Data Risk Analysts are functional team leads within the Clinical Data Science group, charged with reviewing the study data as it comes in to identify data quality issues and assigning them to the appropriate member of the study team for resolution.

Senior members of the team also act as SMEs for core RBQM topics such as Quality Tolerance Limits and Central Monitoring data platforms (JReview, ICONIK, Cluepoints, Medidata Studio…).

• Using high level knowledge of the protocol, identifies critical data and processes from protocol review, and supports protocol risk evaluation process.

• Applies in-depth knowledge of risk-based quality monitoring to guide study team through relevant processes

• Uses analytic platform to navigate through large volumes of data and identify issues

• Aggregates and summarizes data for study team

• Creates data visualizations to explain issues to sponsor

• Logs and assigns findings for data issues in the Clinical Trial Management System

Your profile:

• Degree in Health Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent

• 3-4 years of experience with Clinical Data

• Clinical Trial Experience

• Advanced English proficiency for speak/read/write

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

• Experience with relational databases: SQL

• Exp with clinical data systems: EDC / ePRO / CTMS / IVRS

• Experience with analytic programming languages: R, Python

• Experience with analytic software platforms: JReview, Tableau, Spotfire

• Data Visualization experience

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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

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

ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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