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About the Role

The Senior Director of Clinical Science provides strategic clinical and scientific leadership across multiple programs and assets within the lung and head and neck portfolio. This role shapes development strategy and integrates scientific insights across studies and programs, applying deep clinical, scientific, and therapeutic-area expertise to guide clinical development planning, study design, evidence interpretation, and complex development decisions. The individual also shapes Clinical Science standards and provides scientific leadership, coaching, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic scientific leadership across programs, assets, or disease areas, ensuring quality and consistency of Clinical Science approaches.
Shape the development and evolution of Clinical Development Plans and set strategic direction for study design.
Provide oversight of medical monitoring and medical data review approaches and guide interpretation of complex clinical data across programs.
Integrate clinical evidence, therapeutic-area science, emerging external data, and competitive insights to shape development strategy across programs.
Provide strategic oversight and clinical guidance for key regulatory documents, Health Authority interactions, and other major development activities.
Shape governance strategy and communicate scientific development opportunities to senior leaders.
Shape scientific publication and external engagement strategies and develop strategic relationships with investigators and key opinion leaders.
Provide strategic oversight of clinical/scientific quality, risk management, and audit and inspection readiness across areas of responsibility.
Shape digital and AI-enabled Clinical Science approaches, identify high-value use cases, and drive scalable adoption across programs.
Shape Clinical Science standards, leading practices, and ways of working across programs or disease areas.
Develop Clinical Science talent and organizational capabilities through scientific leadership, coaching, mentoring, and sponsorship.
May lead a large Clinical Science team.

Requirements

Ability to leverage deep clinical development expertise and knowledge of the regulatory and competitive landscape to shape clinical development strategy across programs, assets, or disease areas.
Ability to leverage deep therapeutic-area expertise and emerging science to shape scientific direction across programs, assets, or disease areas.
Demonstrated ability to provide clinical/scientific leadership across programs, assets, or disease areas.
Ability to synthesize complex clinical evidence, emerging science, competitive insights, and clinical practice to drive strategic development decisions.
Ability to leverage expertise in clinical development planning, evidence-generation strategy, and clinical data interpretation to establish development priorities.
Ability to set execution direction across programs, assets, or disease areas and align priorities, stakeholders, and cross-functional activities.
Exceptional scientific and strategic judgment in highly complex and ambiguous situations, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs and drive strategic decisions.
Ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders, functions, and governance bodies to advance priorities across programs, assets, or disease areas.
Strong clinical/scientific communication and ability to shape perspectives and decisions across senior internal and external audiences.
Ability to establish Clinical Science standards, leading practices, and innovative ways of working across programs, assets, or disease areas.
Ability to leverage clinical data and monitoring insights and oversee adoption of digital and AI-enabled approaches to improve decision-making across programs or disease areas.
Demonstrated ability to shape Clinical Science capabilities, develop talent, mentor colleagues, and build organizational capabilities.

Skills

Clinical Development
Clinical Leadership
Clinical Product Development
Clinical Research
Clinical Research Management
Clinical Sciences
Clinical Trial Development
Clinical Trial Management
Decision Making
Drug Development
Scientific Leadership
Strategic Planning
Team Leadership

Location

USA - New Jersey - Rahway

Work Type

Hybrid
Regular
10% Travel

Experience Level

8+ years of pharmaceutical, clinical drug development, and/or medical field experience preferred with an Advanced healthcare or scientific degree (e.g., PhD, PharmD), or equivalent
12+ years of pharmaceutical, clinical drug development, and/or medical field experience with a Master’s degree, preferably in life sciences
15+ years pharmaceutical, clinical drug development, and/or medical field experience with a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in life sciences

Education Level

Advanced healthcare or scientific degree (e.g., PhD, PharmD), or equivalent
Master’s degree, preferably in life sciences
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in life sciences

Salary/Compensations

$210,400.00 - $331,100.00

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
Retirement benefits, including 401(k)
Paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days
Annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable

About the Company

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds.
The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment.
We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.

Equal Opportunity

As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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