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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Lead Clinical Risk Management Analyst

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You'll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Lead Clinical Risk Management Analyst is responsible for managing the development, documentation, and execution of risk-based quality management systems, as described in the risk assessment, data management plan, and site and central monitoring plans.

As the customer-face of Data Review and its primary liaison with the therapy group, the Clinical Data Manager's in-depth therapy-specific knowledge ensures alignment to customer definitions of criticality, and informs review and analysis of study data; within Data Review, the Clinical Data Manager's project management of the RBQM system depends on close partnership and collaboration with the Clinical Data Management Analyst, whose technical expertise in data collection and cleaning processes are critical to the proactive identification and control of risk, and the maintenance of data quality over the study lifecycle.

This position will be based out of our Abbott Diabetes Care in Alameda, CA and the individual will be expected to be onsite Monday-Friday.

What You'll Work On

• Identification of study specific risks to study conduct and human subject safety; analysis of risks; development and implementation of mitigation strategies.
• Review of study data to detect anticipated and unanticipated issues related to trial data completeness and quality.
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder discussions to review findings, evaluate impact and develop action plans for correction and continued monitoring.
• Conduct Central Monitoring activities, as described in Central Monitoring Plan.
• Direct all data cleaning activity related to assigned studies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, Science, Engineering, Business or related field.
• Minimum 3 years in clinical research or healthcare related field.
• Medical training/background highly beneficial
• Education and work experience in project management, life sciences and/or technical field.
• Knowledge of data collection best practices for clinical trials.
• Knowledge of global clinical operations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in consultative role, with Subject Matter Expertise, and effectively influencing a team decision to the desired outcome.
• Proficient at the identification of risks in a process, evaluation of likelihood and impact, and the development of effective mitigation and monitoring strategies that are imperfect yet meet the business need.
• Proficient in the translation of clinical trial requirements to the technical specifications required for effective data collection.
• Skilled at making inferences and connections based on limited information, clearly describing the knowns, unknowns, and alternative explanations.
• Intermediate project management skills; developing a multifaceted plan with complex dependencies and holding peers accountable to adherence to the plan while maintaining positive and collaborative relationships.
• Intermediate therapy specific knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, therapy and device.
• Advanced medical knowledge related to common medical histories, medical terminology, diagnostics (imaging, laboratory), and medications (class, dose, route).

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

Diabetes

We're focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We're revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The base pay for this position is $86,700.00 – $173,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.