Sr. Program Manager, Research

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Sr. Program Manager, Research in our Clinical Research department based out of our National Center office located in Dallas, TX! This position can be home based. 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Responsibilities

This individual will lead efforts to leverage the organizations research platform and clinical data sets to further science and innovation. This role will cultivate relationships with clinical and industry thought leaders, internal and external stakeholders and partner organizations to create opportunities to leverage the organizations research platform and data sets in novel projects aligning with the organizations’ mission. This position will lead product development and operations for the Precision Medicine Platform (PMP), a cloud based, secure analytic environment, where investigators can collaborate on cutting edge research. The successful candidate should possess a strong understanding of cardiovascular disease and stroke data sets, clinical research (both academic and industry) and data privacy regulations. This role will work cross functionally with the organizations Data Science, Research, Health IT, Legal and Business Technology. This role will also oversee vendor relationships. The desired candidate will have strong communication skills, negotiation skills, and be results driven.

• Drive growth in the use of the organizations data sets, clinical research and accelerated scientific discovery, including opportunities to bring therapies that may benefit heart and stroke patients to market more rapidly.
• Lead efforts to …