Merck Clinical Trial Job Opening – Apply Online
Analyst – Clinical Trial Coordinator
Job Id 284148
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Job Type: Full-time
Key Deliverables:
A career at our company is an ongoing journey of discovery: our ~63,000 people are shaping how the world lives, works, and plays through next-generation advancements in healthcare, life science, and electronics. For more than 350 years and across the world, we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.
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 six continents with passion and relentless curiosity to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team means becoming part of a diverse, inclusive, and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your role: An exciting opportunity has emerged to join our healthcare division, where you will support the development of first-in-class and best-in-class specialty medicines for patients in need. You will be part of a newly established
group that provides support for study teams conducting Phase I to Phase IV trials (both interventional and non-interventional), as well as Investigator-Sponsored Studies, with or without CRO involvement. As a Clinical Trial Coordinator, you will manage activities within a dedicated Center of Excellence, ensuring operational deliverables for clinical studies while collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams.Your main responsibilities would be:
- Collaborate closely with clinical teams, offering support and specialized knowledge to ensure the successful and timely execution of clinical studies while leveraging insights from senior leadership.
- Oversee and perform updates to the Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) and associated databases, ensuring data integrity and compliance.
- Generate comprehensive reports, graphs, dashboards, newsletters, and data models to facilitate team meetings and enhance the decision-making process.
- Analyze diverse data sets, identify emerging data types, and synthesize information into actionable metrics and insights.
- Monitor data quality, proactively identify inconsistencies and risks, and implement corrective actions.
- Manage system access and ensure appropriate oversight of study resources, optimizing resource allocation and usage.
Who You Are:
Qualification:
- Graduate background (e.g. Bachelor’s degree) in a scientific field plus some to substantial relevant professional experience (two years or more in Clinical Development or equivalent) and good knowledge and experience in own discipline and beyond.
Work Experience:
- Minimum 2 years of experience required.
- Non-graduated jobholders require a substantial amount of professional experience in a clinical research-related position (minimum of four years) and/or additional qualifications that provide exposure to fundamental clinical research-related skills & knowledge.
- Good understanding of the policies and procedures of Clinical Operations and of ICH-GCP.
- Proficient in utilizing CTMS across all functionalities, ideally as a CTMS Super User.
- Ability to effectively gather large-scale data sets from various sources for reporting and analysis.
- Good computer skills including knowledge of MS Office™ (Word™, PowerPoint™), Outlook, and TEAMS.
- Experienced in Excel™ (including Text-, Date & Time-, Lookup & Reference-, Statistical Functions, Pivot tables).
- Highly skilled in running reports from different IT systems, e.g., CTMS, Spotfire.
Competencies & Skills:
- Excellent oral and written communication in English.
- Ability to work in an international/multicultural cross-functional matrix environment.
- Good administrative, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
- Good time and priority management, ability to work independently, efficiently under pressure.
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