Senior Clinical Analyst
Company: Citeline
Location: Remote, United States
Date Posted: Jul 23, 2026
Employment Type: Full Time
Job ID: R-2072
**Description**
**About Norstella:**
Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions provider dedicated to improving patient access to life-saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full drug development lifecycle - from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.
Norstella unites market-leading brands - Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, Skipta and The Dedham Group and delivers must-have answers and insights, leveraging AI, for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial decision-making. We help our clients:
+ Accelerate the drug development cycle
+ Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
+ Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
+ Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
+ Identify and address barriers to therapies
Norstella serves most pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world, along with regulators like the FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI-driven workflows, Norstella helps clients make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella's investments in AI are transforming how data is consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become more efficient, innovative, and responsive to patient needs.
**About Citeline:**
Citeline is one of the world's leading providers of data and intelligence on clinical trials, drug treatments, medical devices and what's new in the regulatory and commercial landscape. Relying on us to deliver vital advantage when making critical R&D and commercial decisions, our customers come from over 3000 of the world's leading pharmaceutical, contract research organizations (CROs), medical technology, biotechnology and healthcare service providers, including the top 10 global pharma and CROs.
Now, Citeline is proud to be a part of Norstella, an organization that consists of market-leading pharmaceutical solutions providers united under one goal: to improve patient access to life-saving therapies. Within this organization, Citeline plays a key role in helping clients connect the dots from pipeline to patient.
**The Role:**
The Senior Real-World Clinical Analyst is responsible for bridging clinical expertise with advanced real-world data (RWD) to generate high-quality, clinically meaningful evidence that supports clinical research, product development, clinical planning and execution, and healthcare decision-making in clinical development and patient engagement and recruitment. This role combines deep clinical knowledge with expertise in structured and unstructured healthcare data, enabling the interpretation, validation, and delivery of real-world evidence (RWE) across diverse therapeutic areas.
The ideal candidate possesses an advanced clinical background, strong analytical capabilities, and extensive experience working with electronic health records (EHR), claims, lab data, and other healthcare data sources supporting clinical research and development activities. This individual will collaborate cross-functionally with data science, clinical research managers, product, and client-facing teams to ensure clinical accuracy, methodological rigor, and successful project execution.
**Key Responsibilities:**
**Clinical Data Interpretation & Analysis**
+ Apply clinical expertise to interpret structured and unstructured real-world healthcare data across all phases of clinical development.
+ Review and interpret physician documentation, clinical narratives, pathology reports, radiology reports, and other unstructured medical records to derive clinically meaningful insights.
+ Validate clinical cohorts, disease definitions, treatment pathways, outcomes, and patient journeys using RWD.
+ Identify clinical nuances that impact data quality, cohort selection, and study design.
**Real-World Data Expertise**
+ Serve as a subject matter expert in real-world healthcare data sources, including:
+ Electronic Health Records (EHR)
+ Claims Data
+ Laboratory Data
+ Pharmacy Data
+ Linked Data Assets
+ Demonstrate expertise in healthcare coding systems, including:
+ ICD-9/10-CM
+ CPT/HCPCS
+ LOINC
+ NDC
**Project Leadership & Delivery**
+ Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives.
+ Manage project timelines, deliverables, stakeholder expectations, and cross-functional communication.
+ Collaborate with internal teams and external clients to ensure successful execution of clinical data projects.
+ Contribute to process improvements and best practices for RWD projects and evidence generation.
**Required Qualifications**
**Education**
_One of the following is required:_
+ Advanced Practice degree (NP, PA, CRNA, or equivalent), or
+ Master's degree in a health-related field with 5+ years of progressive experience in Real-World Data and clinical data interpretation.
**Experience**
+ At least 3 years working experience in clinical development for pharmaceutical companies, CROs or other support providers
+ Minimum of 5 years of experience working with Real-World Data (RWD), Real-World Evidence (RWE), healthcare analytics, clinical informatics, or observational research.
+ Demonstrated experience interpreting structured and unstructured clinical data.
+ Experience working with electronic health records and healthcare claims data.
+ Experience supporting clinical research, life sciences, or pharmaceutical organizations.
+ Experience participating in project management, implementation, delivery, or client-facing engagements.
**Success in This Role**
A successful Senior Real-World Clinical Analyst combines clinical research and development expertise with their Real- World Data Experience to transform complex healthcare data into actionable insights. They are proficient in interpreting both structured and unstructured clinical data, possess deep knowledge of healthcare coding systems and RWD methodologies, and effectively lead projects from concept through delivery. This individual serves as a trusted clinical expert who ensures that real-world evidence is clinically accurate, analytically sound, and aligned with organizational and client objectives.
**Benefits:**
+ Medical and Prescription Drug Benefits
+ Health Savings Accounts (HSA) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
+ Dental & Vision Benefits
+ Basic Life and AD&D Benefits
+ 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match
+ Company Paid Short & Long-Term Disability
+ Paid Parental Leave
+ Paid Time Off & Company Holidays
_Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic_ _information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law._
_All legitimate roles with Norstella will be posted on Norstella's job board which is located at norstella.com/careers. If a role is not posted on this job board, a candidate should assume the role is not a legitimate role with Norstella. Norstella is not responsible for an application that may be submitted by or through a third-party and candidates should proceed with extreme caution if a third-party approaches them about an open role with Norstella. Norstella will never ask for anything of value or any type of payment during or as part of any recruitment, interview, or pre-hire onboarding process. If you are aware of or have reason to believe a job posting purportedly for a role with Norstella is fraudulent or otherwise not authorized by Norstella, please contact the Company using the following email address:_ _[email protected]_ _._
Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.
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