American Heart Association · 2 days ago
Program Implementation Manager, Clinical Studies
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$70K/yr - $90K/yr
3+ years expAmerican Heart Association is dedicated to combating cardiovascular disease and is seeking a Program Implementation Manager for Clinical Studies. The role involves managing site recruitment, consultation, and project management for clinical studies, focusing on building relationships with healthcare partners to achieve program goals.
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Responsibilities
Identify and develop pipeline of prospective new and existing customers for enrollment in the organization’s novel registries. Oversee contracting process. Coordinate efforts among hospitals and hospital systems on project goals and objectives, including quality improvement and research
Identify, build, cultivate and manage key high-level partner and customer relationships to achieve program goals. Collaborate with the program’s Volunteer Committee, and other high-level physicians and C-suite members from participating sites and stakeholders. Stakeholders include, but are not limited to hospitals, healthcare systems, quality improvement organizations, research organizations, state health departments, and payor groups
Serve as primary account manager of recruited sites. Onboard, manage and consult participating sites on site-level and system-level evidence-based metrics, aiming to support improved clinical care and outcomes. Facilitate sites utilizing pilot and established interoperability between originating source data to the registry, when needed
Establish and conduct data monitoring activities within registry tool. This position will continually review site and registry-wide data for quality, completeness, and quality improvement-related opportunities. Address any data inconsistencies within the platform appropriately and in a timely manner, including measure and data collection revisions
Develop and deliver site and program-wide targeted education and training materials, utilizing collected insights
Analyze, collate, and present results of trainings, education, and data to continually evaluate next steps and needs for program
Create, update, and disseminate education and marketing materials when appropriate. Assist with other marketing aspects/tasks such as conference marketing material development and website collateral maintenance
Prepare for and attend national conferences related to areas of work. Responsible for securing and planning all tasks for exhibitor booths and volunteer lecture engagements. May include exhibitor booth buildouts, contracting, scheduling, material development and supply and shipping logistics
Develop and implement a variety of related observational and prospective clinical studies. Provide oversight of tasks, including protocol development, site recruitment, and regulatory monitoring
Communicate regularly with Project leadership to ensure tasks are completed according to project timeline. Work with colleagues and external partners through ongoing meetings to report out on project deliverables
Support project leadership in developing research infrastructure conducive to future pragmatic clinical trials and other translational, clinical, and implementation science. Guide sites through research proposal process and review submissions, as appropriate
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
3 years of relevant experience
Experience with Microsoft Office suite skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Experience in healthcare or in a public health-related organization, clinical registries, patient registries, clinical studies or quality improvement programs
Ability to function and drive work independently with minimal supervision
Experience multitasking and prioritizing and re-prioritizing tasks associated with time-sensitive deliverable
Ability to interact and engage with clinicians and C-suite, ideally in hospital setting
Experience with program/project management, including experience in influencing performance without direct line accountability
Strong verbal, written, and presentation communications skills, including communication with clinical leadership
Experience with clinical trial operations and oversight in academic or healthcare research environments
Experience with account management and sales success/business development
Ability to work in a team environment and interact with all levels of American Heart Association staff, volunteers, and the public
Ability to travel up to 10% local and overnight stay – inclusive of attending national conferences
Preferred
Master's degree preferred
Cardiovascular knowledge or experience is highly desired
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Disability
Life insurance
Robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution
Employee assistance program
Employee wellness program
Telemedicine
Medical consultation
Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year
12 paid holidays off each year
Tuition Assistance
Company
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.62MKey Investors
Stupski FoundationAmeriCorps Public AlliesCity Furniture
2025-08-14Grant· $0.1M
2024-07-09Grant· $2.7M
2024-06-06Grant· $0.69M
Leadership Team
Jennifer Hall
Chief, Data Science and Analytics
Lynne Braggs
National, Sr. Director Digital Content Production, Creative (Marketing)
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