MSD Product/Business Analyst Clinical Trials Hybrid 

United States, Pennsylvania 

206381701

Job Description

Clinical Development heavily relies on accurate data collected from patients who are part of Clinical Trials. Trial Standards, Trial Design, Trial Data Collections, Trial Data Integrations, and Trial Data Review solutions are the mechanism used to ensure the right data is collected from trial participants, in the right way to enable the Clinical Research to analyze data for efficacy, dosing, safety profiling and adverse events. The data collected from Clinical Trials are used to support drug applications and regulatory submissions to health authorities globally.

Trial Data Management (TDM) is a core business capability that focuses on technology/process simplification and innovation to:

• Improve the Clinical Trial experience for our patients.

• Improve efficiency of study start up by reducing the time from study initiation to first site ready.

• Remove obstacles and enable the Global Clinical Trial Organization to focus on what matters.

As Research and Development IT continues the transition from project / portfolio-based execution to the product model, it is important to have an experienced leader dedicated to this important capability.

We are looking for a professional with strong analytical skills and experience in the Clinical Trials domain to help us implement our vision and strategy to enable the software products within the Trial Data Management area to power the business for the next decade plus. Prior experience in IT or a degree in Computer Science is a plus.

Responsibilities

As a Product/Business Analyst within the Trial Data Management Product Line, you will work across our area supporting programs which enable our business partners to operate without obstacles. You will build expertise on system validations and will have the opportunity to learn the end-to-end clinical process.

You will work with stakeholders at all levels across our company to uncover and communicate user needs. You will be instrumental in planning, designing, and conducting testing activities, engaging support teams, and compiling critical content for training and communication to users.

You will apply a structured approach to discover, document, and manage business process and stakeholder needs. You will also gather insight into user journey, behavior, motivation, unarticulated problems, unmet needs and pain points.

You will work side by side with Business Stakeholders, Product Users, Product Managers, and Technical Leads and you will be providing close support to ensure that the IT solutions are both valuable and viable.

Required Education, Experience & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Product/Business Analyst or similar role.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate across multiple stakeholders.

• Self-driven and able to work independently.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with working within a global team

Additionally, you will:

• Gather documentation related to the business process in clinical domain, document business/user needs and trace requests and responses to requests.

• Continuously broaden your expertise in the Clinical Trials business domain

• Participate in creating of the process to be used for future inspections.

• Leverage business and user insights to form solutioning ideas and make prioritization decisions to maximize the value of the IT solutions.

• Work with the business to identify business value for our initiatives and determine the best way to measure that our solutions achieve the targeted business value.

• Be accountable for enablement, adoption, and growth of the Trial Data Management product.

• Build knowledge of the existing solutions through IT communities and leverage these for the benefit the business stakeholders

• Partner with squad members including but not limited to scrum masters, technical lead(s) and development team to manage high-quality product delivery leveraging Agile SDLC methodology.

• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure a healthy backlog of well-formed epics, features and user stories are maintained, which align with the overall roadmap and serve as requirements for the delivery squad.

• Follow and apply the Product Model principles to maximize the business value.

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

Current Contingent Workers apply

US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by aagreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

Expected salary range:

$111,400.00 - $175,300.00

1st - Day

Benefits Administration, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management

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