Provides leadership, strategic direction, and high-level expertise to the programming group.

• Coordinates all activities and personnel within programming and properly allocates resources.
• Oversees project teams that contribute to tabulation datasets, analysis datasets, statistical analyses/displays, clinical development, and regulatory submissions.
• Utilizes ingenuity to develop solutions to abstract problems within existing systems and processes.
• Mentors programmers across multiple project teams.
• Oversees programming activities for Phase I-IV studies, integrated databases and analyses, safety reviews, and ad-hoc analyses.
• Develops and manages programming services, providing resources and management of programming activities and deliverables.
• Establishes and maintains strategic client relationships including support of corporate business development and marketing activities at client presentations and professional seminars.
• Supports the leadership on strategies to improve efficiency in programming.
• Provides input into budgetary requirements by performing financial review of assigned projects, managing risks and issues, and supporting the project team to ensure all out-of-scope tasks are included in change-order forms.

• Master’s degree in a quantitative or scientific field
• 2 years of experience in a leadership capacity in clinical programming at a CRO or pharmaceutical company
• Demonstrates strong mentoring and leadership skills.
• Knows how to identify and hire strong candidates through the hiring process.
• Exhibits expertise of clinical data, programming language (i.e. SAS®), and industry standards.
• Displays ability to communicate complex technical considerations to non-technical staff.