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.