Use Your Power for Purpose
At Pfizer, our mission is to empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients. You will play a pivotal role in improving patients' lives by ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and consistency of clinical data. Your work will bridge evidence-based medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders, enhancing health and treatment outcomes. By developing robust frameworks, providing unbiased expertise, and addressing data gaps, you will contribute to better health outcomes and the safe use of medicines. Your dedication will help Pfizer achieve new milestones and support patients worldwide.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as Clinical Data Scientist and Trial Lead for one or more clinical trials assuming responsibility for all CDS activities including selection and application of data acquisition standards, Data Management Plan, selection of quality risk indicators, third party study data due diligence.
- Serve as a technical resource to the study teams for DM and RBM standards, tools, data provisioning, and reporting.
- Partners with Research/Business Units, external DM service providers and internal CDS staff to deliver high quality data management for all studies as assigned.
- Proactively drives quality and efficiency to meet timeline and milestones for data management, ensuring scientific and operational excellence in support of strategic imperatives and in collaboration with the cross functional study team(s).
- Ensure work carried out by or on behalf of CDS is in accordance with applicable SOPs and working practices.
- Participates and ensures quality database design including documentation, testing and implementation of clinical data collection tools, both CRF and non-CRF, using an electronic data capture (EDC) system and/or other data collection systems.
- Ensure the required study specific CDS documents in the Trial Master File (TMF) are of high quality and are filed contemporaneously.
- Ensure operational excellence in collaboration with partners for application of standards, data acquisition, proactive data review and data integrity monitoring, data cleaning, e-data processing, data access and visualization, and database release.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- Demonstrated successful experience in all relevant clinical data management activities in a Biopharmaceutical or CRO setting
- Working knowledge of all phases of clinical trials and ability to assess and determine study requirement from protocol review
- Strong Project and Risk Management• CRO and vendor oversight experience preferred• Strong verbal and written communication skills• Consistent, detail oriented, communicative, dedicated to do a job well done
- Minimum 5 years Data Management experience required• Working knowledge of clinical research, FDA & ICH, GCP, GCDMP, and related regulatory requirements• Proficient experience using commercial clinical data management systems and/or EDC products (Oracle RDC / Inform preferred)
- Experience using relational databases (e.g. MS SQL Server, MS Access, or Oracle) and data visualization tools (e.g. Spotfire, jReview)
- Familiarity with MedDRA/WHO-Drug
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite of tools (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree required. Degree in scientific field preferred. Master's degree preferred.
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):
- Master's degree
- Contract Research Organization (CRO) and vendor oversight experience
- Proficient in using commercial clinical data management systems and/or EDC products
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders
- Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity. Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use
EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, or disability.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
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Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years Data Management experience
- Experience in clinical data management activities in a Biopharmaceutical or CRO setting
- Working knowledge of all phases of clinical trials and protocol assessment
- Working knowledge of FDA & ICH, GCP, GCDMP, and related regulatory requirements
- Proficient experience using commercial clinical data management systems and/or EDC products
- Experience with Oracle RDC or Inform (preferred specific EDC platforms)
- Experience using relational databases (e.g., MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle)
- Experience using data visualization tools (e.g., Spotfire, jReview)
- Familiarity with MedDRA and WHO-Drug coding
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Strong project and risk management skills
- CRO and vendor oversight experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; detail oriented
- Bachelor's degree (scientific field preferred)
- Master's degree
- Experience using common AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) and understanding of responsible AI practices
Pfizer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical with robust mental‑health networks, plus dental and vision options, and coverage for infertility/family‑building and transgender‑affirming care. Recent U.S. summaries name mental‑health partners and outline multiple plan choices.
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Retirement Support — The retirement program provides a 401(k) with company match plus an additional employer Retirement Savings Contribution, along with financial‑planning support and company‑paid life and disability insurance. These elements are highlighted as part of the core U.S. package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as up to 26 weeks in the U.S. when combining paid non‑medical parental leave with medical recovery where applicable, with exact pay and weeks dependent on circumstances and plan elections. Family‑building support includes egg preservation, adoption, and surrogacy coverage.
Pfizer Insights
What We Do
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Why Work With Us
We are the inventors, the problem solvers, the big thinkers — those who surmount any hurdle to deliver breakthrough medicines to the people who are counting on them the most.
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