Senior Director, Quantitative Pharmacology

Role Summary

Senior Group Director in Quantitative Pharmacology responsible for managing a team in one or more therapeutic focus areas, ensuring timely completion of QP activities to support Drug Safety and Pharmacometrics across asset development from Early Clinical through submission.

Responsibilities

• Managing and mentoring a broad spectrum of individual contributing scientists.
• Providing technical guidance and mentoring of colleagues within the function and across the organization.
• Performance management and assessment of staff and providing guidance and training to enable their success.
• Utilizing a mastery level of PK/PD knowledge and strategic leadership skills, developing and implementing strategic analyses in support of research and development projects.
• Taking accountability for the PK/PD evaluation of a portfolio of products or projects, and/or highly complex projects wide in scope.
• Identifying opportunities for process and procedural improvements, product or service improvements.
• Solving unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience (with a Ph.D.) or 12+ years (with an M.S.), focusing on modeling and simulation, PK/PD, systems pharmacology, and quantitative drug development strategies.
• Hands-on usage of a broad range of quantitative tools and systems; strong publication record in the field.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral, with ability to communicate complex information succinctly.
• Strong collaborative skills and ability to build alliances across functions and influence multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Ability to handle all types of projects and leverage higher-level staff for technical input and brainstorming to implement solutions for complex projects.
• Proven experience interacting with regulatory agencies without supervision and developing regulatory strategy.

Skills

• PK/PD modeling
• Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics
• Systems pharmacology
• Quantitative drug development strategies
• Leadership and mentoring
• Strategic analysis and problem solving

Education

• Ph.D. in a related field; or M.S. with extensive relevant experience

Additional Requirements

• Position can be based in Tarrytown, NY, Warren, NJ, or Cambridge, MA