Senior Clinical Research Director

Main Responsibilities:

• Serve as senior medical/scientific leader for Rheumatology/Transplant clinical programs.
• Mentor CRDs and Clinical Scientists; build consensus and coordinate action plans to resolve study issues.
• Anticipate issues by sharing lessons learned; raise study/project-level issues to TA Heads.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align operations (e.g., harmonize documents, endpoints, protocols).
• Interact with Global Project Head, PV, Regulatory, and other key functional representatives.
• Provide medical expertise to clinical studies/registries (incl. protocol development, Key Results, Clinical Study Reports).
• Support pressure testing/cluster feasibility, medical review/validation of data, and study risk assessment.
• Contribute to clinical portions of submission dossiers (CTD for FDA/EMA; filings for Japan/China; responses to health authority questions).
• Provide medical input/training, feasibility assessments, medical review, and medical information to study teams/investigators.
• Act as medical reference for clinical study team to ensure medical relevance and integrity of data.

Qualifications:

• MD or equivalent medical degree required (DO, MBBS).
• Training/experience in rheumatology, hematology, transplant, or immunology.
• 4+ years in pharmaceutical industry (late-stage clinical development preferred).
• Fluency in spoken and written English.

Skills/Competencies:

• Strong scientific/medical expertise and clinical development methodology/design.
• Excellent communication; risk-management mindset; ability to negotiate resources.
• Teaching ability; matrix collaboration; international/intercultural skills; adaptable to digital solutions.

Benefits (explicit):

• High-quality healthcare, prevention/wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.