.**Work Schedule**Other**Environmental Conditions**OfficeWe are vital links between an idea for a new medicine and the people who need it. We are the people of PPD — thousands of employees in locations worldwide connected by tenacity and passion for our purpose: to improve health. You will be joining a truly collaborative and winning culture as we strive to bend the time and cost curve of delivering life-saving therapies to patients.PPD's Centralized Monitoring group delivers a new approach to risk surveillance and centralized statistical monitoring, combining the power of statistical and analytical tools with expertise from operationally experienced staff to monitor and manage clinical study data. Centralized Monitoring staff explores study data holistically to pinpoint meaningful signals, resulting in more efficient and effective issue resolution and a proactive approach to risk detection. Using this data-driven approach, PPD can address study problems or site performance quickly, directing remediation activities where needed and positioning on-site monitoring activity in a targeted approach.Centralized Monitoring evaluates data within and across studies, sites, countries and regions.Our analytic approach provides insight into:- Data errors, deviations- Trends, outliers- Unusual variation (or lack of variation)- Potential data manipulation, fraud- Other systematic errors or data integrity issues.As a Centralized Monitoring (CM) Analyst, you'll be supporting centralized statistical and risk surveillance activities on assigned trials. The CM Analyst will identify and characterize issues and trends in operational and patient clinical trial data using analytical or statistical tools. The role will leverage operational experience and knowledge to evaluate issues and develop findings based on data analyzed to communicate issues and potential risks to project team members for follow-up action.Essential Functions:- Reviews clinical trial data using a variety of tools and systems in alignment with the centralized monitoring plan with support from senior team members.- Characterizes and tracks the evidence of issues, signals and potential risks with support from senior team members.- Ensures results of reviews are appropriately documented per department procedures.- May participate in development of risk characterization and reporting.- Supports review set-up, including updating department database, pulling reports, etc.Education and Experience:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification- Previous experience in clinical monitoring, data management, biostatistics or related field that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years')