Manager, Clinical Data Quality
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Medtronic
Compensation
$129,600 - $194,400/year
Job Description
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
The Cardiovascular portfolio delivers innovative therapies and technologies to diagnose, treat, and manage cardiovascular disease. It spans solutions for coronary and peripheral artery disease, structural heart and aortic conditions, cardiac rhythm management, and hemodynamic monitoring. The portfolio focuses on improving clinical outcomes, enabling less invasive care, and supporting physicians and health systems with integrated, evidence‑based solutions that enhance patient care and procedural efficiency.At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
This position will be based in Mounds View, MN or Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands.
The Manager, Clinical Data Quality leads a team responsible for ensuring high‑quality, reliable clinical study data across a global clinical research portfolio, including Cardiac Rhythm Management, Cardiac Ablation Solutions, and Post Approval Surveillance. This role provides people leadership and operational oversight of clinical data quality activities, partnering closely with Clinical Operations, Data Management, Safety, Field Clinical teams, and Study Leadership to proactively monitor data quality, guide query resolution, and ensure studies proactive data quality monitoring, effective query resolution, and ongoing inspection and milestone‑readiness. In addition to managing day‑to‑day execution, this role is responsible for advancing scalable, forward‑looking data quality practices through the use of analytics, reporting, and process optimization to support timely database snapshots, locks, and study outcomes.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
People Leadership and Team Management
- Directly manage, coach, and develop a team of Field Clinical Data Specialists and/or experienced clinical data professionals.
- Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development and engagement.
- Prioritize team workload across multiple studies and geographies to ensure consistent, high‑quality execution.
- Oversee resource planning and allocation across studies, ensuring balanced workloads, clear prioritization, and alignment with portfolio needs and timelines.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and results‑oriented team culture.
- Act as a trusted advisor on data quality strategy, risk areas, and operational best practices
Clinical Data Operations and Quality Oversight
- Ensure the team proactively monitors data quality trends, performance metrics, and risk indicators, and that appropriate corrective and preventive actions are identified and implemented in collaboration with study teams.
- Establish expectations, tools, and processes that enable effective execution of query management, data cleaning, non‑CRF data review, and issue escalation.
- Governance mindset, ensuring consistent practices across geographies and study types/portfolio‑level visibility
- Review escalations, synthesize insights from the team, and guide prioritization of actions to maintain study readiness for key milestones such as snapshots, database locks, and inspections.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex or cross‑study data quality challenges requiring leadership judgment and cross‑functional coordination.
Analytics, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement
- Enable and champion the use of analytics, reporting, and automation by the team to support scalable data quality monitoring and operational efficiency.
- Expand the use of dashboards, visualizations, and metrics to deliver actionable, scalable insights across studies and portfolios.
- Think strategically about how to scale data quality capabilities as the portfolio grows and study complexity increases.
Must Have; Minimum Requirements
To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.
- Bachelor’s degree in clinical, biomedical, technical, or scientific discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of clinical research experience,
- Or an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of clinical research experience.
- Prior people management or team leadership experience.
Nice to Have
- Demonstrated experience in clinical research data operations, including data quality oversight, query management, and data cleaning.
- Experience partnering on or leveraging analytics, reporting, visualization, or automation solutions (e.g., Power BI, SQL, macros, AI‑enabled tools).
- Experience supporting global or multi‑study portfolios.
- Background in field‑based clinical support or close collaboration with investigative sites.
- Strong understanding of clinical research processes, study design, and data workflows.
- Proven ability to analyze data trends and translate insights into operational improvements.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work in a global, cross‑functional environment.
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
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About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
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