Manager, Clinical Data Quality

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
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
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
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)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).