Senior Lead Data Manager

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Functions, Duties, Tasks:

Key Leadership Responsibilities

• Proactively search for solutions.
• Work effectively and flexibly within and across all Elanco R&D teams and external collaborators to achieve overall Elanco R&D deliverables.
• Create a positive work environment that is aligned with company objectives.
• Provide and accept challenge to deliver innovative technical solutions and create an innovative culture.
• Create an engaging culture with a "Play to Win” mentality.
• Identify and utilize methods to deliver individual objectives in a high quality, timely, cost-effective manner.
• Demonstrate high levels of adaptability, flexibility, and learning agility

Key Technical Reponsibilities

• Support deployment, validation, testing and implementation of electronic data capture systems as part of data management strategies.
• Support preparation and implementation of study data management plans across R&D project teams from initiation to completion.
• Ensure adherence to clinical data collection policies and procedures and is expected to keep Elanco at the forefront of standards for the animal health industry.
• Confirm validation and compliance to all regulations (including GxP) and guidelines the global data management systems and process utilized to collect, manage, report, store and archive databases containing clinical data
• Be part of the regular connects with site lead and study team (Site/Study program leads).
• Support/Monitor the UAT activities on the studies assigned
• Perform/Monitor the archival activities.
• Provide the necessary support on creating/updating the study specific documents as needed.
• Update all the dashboards for metrics generation
• Manage scheduling and time constraints across multiple projects at a time, set goals based on priorities from management, and adapt to timeline or priority changes by reorganizing daily workload.
• Prepare in advance for internal meetings, contribute ideas, and demonstrate respect for opinions of others.
• Lead innovation and collaborate with other function leads for process refinement and introduction of new process optimization tools.
• Engage in knowledge share activities.

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