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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Manager, Data Management - **Company:** BioAgilytix - **Location:** Durham, NC, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Information Systems, Data Governance, Data Integrity, Laboratory Information Management Systems, Microsoft Office, DataOps, Enterprise Software Applications, SAP Ariba, Data Management, Tools for Reporting - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c87e43442230520e ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in life sciences, health sciences, clinical research, business, or related field. * 6 years of relevant CRO, laboratory, clinical, or data operations experience, including regulated data-delivery experience. * 2-4 years of people-leadership experience in a regulated operations environment., * Strong people leadership, daily/weekly work planning, workload prioritization, performance management, and team-development skills. * Demonstrated ability to apply operating standards, KPIs, service levels, risk controls, and disciplined escalation processes. * Strong knowledge of data integrity, traceability, data-lifecycle controls, quality principles, and regulated data-management expectations. * Demonstrated familiarity with industry data standards and models for example SEND, CDISC, SDTM, ADaM. * Ability to translate business needs into practical team-level process, reporting, technology, and automation improvements. * Excellent cross-functional coordination and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to clarify handoffs, resolve execution issues, and escalate appropriately. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present workload, delivery performance, and risk clearly to leadership. * Proficiency with data-management platforms, reporting/analytics tools, Microsoft Office applications, and enterprise systems; experience with LIMS or similar laboratory systems preferred., * Advanced degree in life sciences, data science, information systems, business, or a related discipline preferred. * Experience leading data-management transformation, automation, systems implementation, validation, or operating-model redesign in a regulated environment preferred. ## Description The Manager, Data Management will play a key role in building and leading a new Data Management function that supports laboratory and bioanalytical data within a CRO environment. This hands-on leader will manage the day-to-day details while establishing the processes, structure, and team needed to support the function as it grows. The Manager will hire, develop, and lead the Data Management team; oversee daily delivery, work assignment, schedule adherence, quality, coverage, training, and issue escalation; and partner closely with laboratory operations, project management, quality, and other cross-functional teams. This individual will resolve immediate blockers, manage delivery and compliance risks, improve processes, and support automation initiatives. Prior experience managing laboratory or bioanalytical data in a CRO environment is required., * Manage daily and weekly Data Management execution, including work assignment, staffing coverage, workload balancing, and team performance to support timely delivery. * Own daily plan adherence and weekly schedule attainment; identify at-risk work, take recovery actions within authority, and escalate blockers before commitments are missed. * Ensure first-pass quality, documentation completeness, data integrity, traceability, review readiness, and reduction of avoidable rework across assigned outputs. * Coordinate handoffs with Project Management (PM), Principal Investigators (PI), Operations Management (OM), Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), Sample Management (SM), Finance, and IT/System Owners so dependencies, acceptance criteria, and accountability are clear. * Identify and escalate delivery, quality, compliance, data-integrity, system, and capacity risks within required timeframes; maintain clear blocker and action visibility. * Apply and maintain approved procedures, templates, standards, KPIs, service expectations, controls, training requirements, and competency expectations within the assigned team. * Monitor and report Manager-level KPIs, including daily plan adherence, weekly schedule attainment, first-pass quality, escalation timeliness, coverage reliability, and training completion. * Provide workload, backlog, staffing, and coverage data to functional leadership to support 30-90 day capacity planning and bottleneck resolution. * Lead team-level process improvements that reduce manual burden, rework, and cycle time; support automation and systems initiatives as an operational SME. * Build team capability through coaching, onboarding, performance management, training, engagement, and identification of readiness for increased responsibility. * Maintain compliant, audit-ready execution and consistent application of approved standards; support deviation, CAPA, change-control, and audit activities as applicable. Additional Responsibilities: * Other duties as needed, * Directly supervises individual contributors and/or frontline supervisors; responsible for staffing coverage, workload balancing, performance management, onboarding, training effectiveness, development, and team engagement., * Works under limited supervision with responsibility for daily and weekly functional execution and team performance within established policies, standards, and priorities. * Exercises independent judgment in work assignment, workload balancing, schedule recovery, immediate issue resolution, and timely escalation; escalates material cross-functional, capacity, quality/compliance, resource, or strategic decisions. ## Related Videos - [Exploring 5 Key Applications of AI Abundance with Blockchain Assurance](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/971-exploring-5-key-applications-of-ai-abundance-with-blockchain-assurance) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [Startup Presentation: StorX - Future of Cloud Storage](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1176-startup-presentation-storx-future-of-cloud-storage) - [Beyond Gut Feelings: The Rise of Data-Driven HR](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1326-beyond-gut-feelings-the-rise-of-data-driven-hr) - [Empowering Retail Through Applied Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/976-empowering-retail-through-applied-machine-learning) - [GenAI Security: Navigating the Unseen Iceberg](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1744-genai-security-navigating-the-unseen-iceberg) ## Related Articles - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Data Analyst Salary Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/277-data-analyst-salary-germany) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk)