Position Summary and Role: Director/Sr. Director of Clinical Program Management
Director/ Sr. Director of Clinical Program Management
Responsibilities:
Drive development and optimization of integrated program strategy
- Provide, in collaboration with the Clinical Program Leader, strategic leadership to the Clinical Program Team for the clinical development of therapeutics in the pipeline.
- Drive, together with the Clinical Program Leader, the program strategy by planning and tracking activities, such as drug supply and formulation development, preclinical work for indication expansion and patient selection strategies, supportive clinical pharmacology, and toxicology studies.
Lead and contribute to organizational initiatives and external partnerships.
- Lead and contribute to task forces, sub teams or broader cross-functional organizational initiatives.
- Manage external partnerships with other Pharmaceutical/Biotech companies or academic institutions.
Achieving organizational alignment and seamless execution of the integrated development plan
- Accountable for the cross-functional alignment and organizational support of the integrated development plan by facilitating internal and external stakeholder management.
- Drive team’s objective setting, prioritization and tracking ensuring adherence to the development strategy and operational plan.
- Assure ongoing optimization of program timelines and resource requirements.
- Lead risk management and contingency planning and monitor the implementation of risk mitigation strategies at program level.
Enable high performing teams and associates.
- Foster team building, interactions, and collaboration, striving for high performing clinical program teams.
- Develop team members through coaching and mentoring.
- Drive issue identification and resolution in alignment with concerned line functions and the program team.
- Ensure effective, initiative-taking, and open communications within and across the program team to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress, and issues.
- Deputize the Clinical Program Leader as the spokesperson for the program team.
Minimum requirements:
- PhD. in Life Sciences or MBA with bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience in life science and at minimum 8 years’ industry experience in drug development
- Strong scientific background in Biology, Chemistry or Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Several years of multi- and cross-functional leadership experience in international and multidisciplinary drug development teams
- Expert knowledge of drug development process incl. advanced knowledge of regulatory and business requirements. Oncology and clinical operations experience of advantage
- Advanced project management skills, capable of managing multiple projects with respect to priorities and self-management.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for bridging between scientific and business participants, for negotiating timelines and for effective international collaboration.
- Strong verbal communication and expert in written communications
Work Environment: This is a high growth, fast paced small organization. The successful candidate will be an initiative-taker, comfortable with autonomy, and embrace cross-functional collaboration to be successful navigate in this busy work environment.
Benefits Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance; STD & LTD
- Paid Time Off
- 401k with Company Match
- Company parties and events
- Management and growth opportunity
Please send CV’s to hr@ascentage.com
No Recruiters Please.