Job Description
The Director, Functional Area Geography Lead provides strategic and operational oversight for all functional area activities within a defined geography and team. The role defines and executes regional plans, manages staff performance and succession, and ensures compliance with local and integral requirements while fostering collaboration, innovation, and the adoption of standardized and digital data-management practices.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Geographic Strategy:
Provide strategic direction within assigned country or region; ensure consistent execution, quality, and compliance; develop region-specific objectives aligned with organizational priorities.
Lead or participate in cross-functional collaborations with non-GDMS (Global Data Management & Standards) partners and enterprise support functions to achieve geographic strategic and operational objectives.
Communicate clear narratives to executives on risks, trade-offs, and decisions; champion innovation, automation,



and risk-based data-management practices; share lessons and maintain quality oversight across geographies.
Define and lead the functional area's operating model and multi-year optimization strategy for the assigned geography, integrating functional area and GDMS global strategic objectives.
Actively identify and support functional area-specific capability expansion aligned with industry best practices and business needs; drive adoption of technology-deployment principles across relevant GCTO (Global Clinical Trial Operations) organizations.
Operational Governance, Execution, & Cross-Functional Alignment:
Drive high-quality, compliant, decision-ready data products and processes that enable teams to meet critical regulatory, clinical, and operational milestones within assigned functional area.
Ensure inspection readiness, adherence to regional processes, and compliant controls for operational data, processes, and system changes in partnership with global and functional quali

📌 Director, Functional Area Geography Lead, Clinical Data Management (Bogotá)
🏢 Msd
📍 Bogotá