Description
Job Location: High Wycombe, UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Description
Job Seniority Level: Senior Medical Coder
At Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (IM), what matters most is helping people live full and healthy lives. We focus on treating, curing, and preventing some of the most devastating and complex diseases of our time. J&J IM Research & Development discovers and develops innovative medical solutions to address important unmet medical needs in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, infectious diseases and vaccines, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
Within Integrated Data Analysis and Reporting (IDAR) Data Management, the Data Acquisition & Coding (DAC) business are recruiting for a Senior Medical Coder to join their team. This position is to be located in High Wycombe office, UK (hybrid). Are you ready to join a growing, highly skilled team driving the implementation of data acquisition and coding strategy? Then read further! In this role, you will ensure accurate, consistent and reproducible coding of clinical study data, adhering to established J&J R&D guidelines and coding processes. You'll contribute to global thesaurus and code list maintenance as well as the enhancement of coding products and systems. Reporting to Medical Coding Functional Leadership you'll play a key role in multi-functional discussions influencing stakeholders while contributing to strategic decisions. The position also offers opportunities to engage in continuous improvement initiatives as well as industry work groups while building strong relationships with internal and external partners.
Principal Responsibilities
- Lead medical coding activities for lower-to-moderate size therapeutic areas ensuring compliance with Regulatory Authority and Industry standards for coding practices and processes.
- Drive and enforce adherence to established coding governance principles.
- Ensure consistent accurate reproducible coding of clinical trial data meeting project timelines quality standards.
- Share expertise on coding processes encoding systems with cross-functional teams fostering collaboration knowledge exchange.
- Address resolve cross-functional cross-sector coding inquiries issues ensuring smooth data flow.
- Lead or actively contribute continuous improvement initiatives driving innovation enhancing data acquisition coding capabilities.
- Shape organisation’s coding approach improving reusability efficiency consistency tools processes across therapeutic areas studies.
- Contribute maintenance enhancement global thesaurus code lists dictionary encoding systems processes.
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving decision-making abilities capacity work independently take initiative.
This role reports to a people manager within the DAC functional area. Key internal contacts within IDAR include leaders in Data Management Central Monitoring Clinical Statistical Programming Clinical Data Standards Regulatory Medical Writing Therapeutic Area Leads along with system support teams. Collaborative functional contacts within J&J Innovative Medicine include Global Program Leaders Global Trial Leaders Biostatisticians Clinical Teams Procurement Finance Legal Privacy Regulatory HR Project Coordinators. External contacts include partners suppliers CRO management vendor liaisons industry peers.
Qualifications
Education Experience Requirements:
- We seek a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (BS BA) or equivalent professional experience ideally in Clinical Data Management Health or Computer Sciences. Advanced degrees (Master’s PhD) are preferred.
- Approximately 4 years experience in Pharmaceutical CRO Biotech or related industry.
- Strong knowledge of industry-standard coding thesauri (MedDRA WHO Drug) experience contributing maintenance dictionary encoding products systems.
- Experience working multi-functional environment ability adapt different workflows.
- Excellent written verbal communication skills English.
- In-depth understanding drug development process GCP/ICH guidelines.
- Innovative approach designing executing medical coding strategies.
Approx <10% travel (domestic international) may be required.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary extensive benefits package. The health well-being our employees is priority we have flexible working environment we value work-life balance. We offer career development opportunities those who want grow be part our organisation. We are J&J Innovative Medicine!
Johnson & Johnson Family Companies are equal opportunity employers all qualified applicants will considered employment without regard any other characteristic protected by law. We will ensure that individuals disabilities provided reasonable accommodation participate job application interview process perform important job functions receive other benefits privileges employment please contact us request accommodation.
We are an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration employment without regard race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin protected veteran status will not discriminated against basis disability.
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