Head of Data Standards & CRF Design
Head of Data Standards & CRF Design
merck healthcare- Posted an hour ago
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Job Description
Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more We know you've got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
In your role as Director, Clinical Data Standards and CRF Design, you will lead a global team accountable for clinical data standards, CRF design, metadata governance, and submission-ready data deliverables. You will own the operational implementation of standards across CRF, SDTM, and non-CRF domains, drive governance and version control in the metadata repository, and ensure high-quality study design, eDC CRF Design, and regulatory submission readiness fpr SDTM packages in outsourced studies. You will partner across Clinical Development, Data Management, Biostatistics, Safety, Regulatory, IT, CROs, technology vendors, and industry forums to advance standards, inspection readiness, and digital innovation.This is a highly collaborative global role where your leadership directly impacts how fast we bring life-changing solutions to patients. You will find excellent opportunities to grow your career as you lead change and champion clinical data innovation across the organization.
Who You Are
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more We know you've got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
In your role as Director, Clinical Data Standards and CRF Design, you will lead a global team accountable for clinical data standards, CRF design, metadata governance, and submission-ready data deliverables. You will own the operational implementation of standards across CRF, SDTM, and non-CRF domains, drive governance and version control in the metadata repository, and ensure high-quality study design, eDC CRF Design, and regulatory submission readiness fpr SDTM packages in outsourced studies. You will partner across Clinical Development, Data Management, Biostatistics, Safety, Regulatory, IT, CROs, technology vendors, and industry forums to advance standards, inspection readiness, and digital innovation.This is a highly collaborative global role where your leadership directly impacts how fast we bring life-changing solutions to patients. You will find excellent opportunities to grow your career as you lead change and champion clinical data innovation across the organization.
Who You Are
- You hold an advanced degree in Life Sciences, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, or an equivalent scientific or technical discipline.
- You bring 10 or more years of progressive experience in clinical data standards within a pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO environment, including demonstrated progression into senior leadership roles.
- You have at least 5 years of experience leading and developing global, multidisciplinary teams responsible for data standards definition, implementation, and cross-functional integration.
- You possess deep expertise in CDISC standards and submission-related deliverables, including CDASH, SDTM, Define.xml, annotated CRF (aCRF), SDRG, and inspection-ready metadata governance.
- You have proven experience in CRF design, eDC study build standards, metadata repository lifecycle management, external data standards, and regulatory submission readiness.
- You demonstrate a strong track record in governance, quality oversight, risk management, vendor and CRO partnership, and cross-functional decision-making in a regulated clinical development environment.
- Experience with emerging standards and technologies such as Dataset-JSON, SDTM v3.0, CDISC Open Rules, ICH M11, HL7 FHIR-to-CDISC interoperability, or AI-enabled metadata and protocol-to-CRF automation is a plus.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder influence, change leadership, and the ability to represent the function in external standards or industry forums are advantageous.
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
More Info
Key Skills
SDRG
AI-enabled metadata
inspection-ready metadata governance
CDASH
Define.xml
external data standards
Dataset-JSON
HL7 FHIR-to-CDISC interoperability
protocol-to-CRF automation
submission-related deliverables
annotated CRF
aCRF
metadata repository lifecycle management
regulatory submission readiness
CDISC Open Rules
ICH M11
eDC study build standards
SDTM v3.0
