Senior Director, Clinical Science

This position is required to be onsite 3 days per week.

This key individual will report to the Chief Medical Officer, interface directly with multiple early development oncology teams, and external investigators/advisors/ companies to lead innovation and enable the company to achieve a higher probability of success in developing novel anti-cancer therapeutics.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise and leadership to 1-2 clinical development programs.
• Conduct clinical studies: collaborate closely with Clinical Operations to manage the CRO vendor to ensure patient appropriateness and evaluate safety data coming from the clinical studies.
• Liaise with the Clinical Investigators at the clinical sites to facilitate trial participation and identify issues that arise.
• Establish and grow KOL support for the Clinical Development Programs - The clinical scientist will be responsible for evaluating, prioritizing, establishing, and bringing in the results for these collaborations.
• Provide strategic guidance for compounds and devise clinical development strategies, assessment of competition, and approval strategy.
• Design and draft clinical documents (protocol synopses, protocols, amendments, investigator brochure etc.) in concert with team, translational biology, statistician, clin ops, & regulatory.
• Review literature and author clinical abstracts, prepare data for various presentations including presenting at conferences when appropriate.
• Enable a focus on the cancer patient.

Requirements:

• An advanced degree is preferred (PhD, PharmD). Individuals without an advanced degree but with significant relevant experience will also be considered.
• 5-7 years of experience working as a clinical scientist in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
• Industry experience in oncology drug development, clinical trial conduct and safety reporting.
• The candidate should have high level of independence, motivation, innovation, and excellent communication skills with team-oriented style to facilitate exchanges within a matrixed environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills required.
• Willing to travel (mostly domestic) occasionally, meet with investigators, attend conferences, participate in advisory boards, including over occasional weekends.