Computer & Mathematical
Clinical Data Managers
Also called: Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director), Clinical Data Management Manager (CDM Manager), Clinical Data Manager, Clinical Informatics Manager
US median pay
$120,230
per year, 2025
Job growth 2025–35
+34.6%
faster than average
Openings a year (US)
24,800
275,600 employed
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree
Preparation 4/5 · Considerable preparation
What this job is
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
What they do day to day
- Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
- Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
- Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.
- Develop project-specific data management plans that address areas such as coding, reporting, or transfer of data, database locks, and work flow processes.
- Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
- Prepare appropriate formatting to data sets as requested.
- Design forms for receiving, processing, or tracking data.
- Prepare data analysis listings and activity, performance, or progress reports.
- Confer with end users to define or implement clinical system requirements such as data release formats, delivery schedules, and testing protocols.
- Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy, completeness, or proper usage of clinical systems and data.
Skills and knowledge that matter most
Skills
- Complex Problem Solving3.5/5
- Time Management3.4/5
- Coordination3.4/5
- Systems Analysis3.2/5
- Programming3.2/5
- Judgment and Decision Making3.2/5
- Systems Evaluation3.1/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.1/5
Knowledge
- English Language4.1/5
- Computers and Electronics4.0/5
- Customer and Personal Service3.7/5
- Mathematics3.2/5
- Medicine and Dentistry3.0/5
- Administration and Management3.0/5
Importance rated by people working in the job (1 = not important, 5 = extremely important).
Education and preparation
Preparation level 4 of 5 — Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree and several years of related experience.
Typical entry education (BLS): Bachelor's degree.
Highest education of people in this job:
- Bachelor's degree85%
Who this job suits
Mostly Conventional
Organising data, details and procedures
Investigative
Ideas, research and solving problems
Enterprising
Leading, persuading and starting things
Based on the Holland (RIASEC) interest profile for this occupation.