Early Development Therapeutic Area Head

Job Title: Early Development Therapeutic Area Head

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. 

The Early Development Therapeutic Area Head (ED TA Head) will lead all clinical operations activities in the therapeutic or business area. They are responsible for the strategic planning, execution, and oversight of clinical trials in the assigned area. They are part of the extended Leadership Team representing Clinical Science Operations (CSO) in the TA strategy and will be responsible for delivery of projects according to the defined strategy. 

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing input into the therapeutic area strategy and accountable for, with input and support from all applicable functions within the CSO, executing those plans. ED TA Head should challenge the teams and propose the optimal clinical operations solutions and scopes of work that create the most value for the project, team and the platform while also building in innovation to accelerate programs.

• Builds a strong relationship with the Translations Medicine Unit (TMU) and relevant TA leadership, platform leadership and other key stakeholders (legal, procurement, etc.)

• Ensures appropriate communications channels are maintained and reporting schedules adhered to. Key relationship manager for the TMU.

• Responsible for routine reporting of the early development

• Accountable for financial oversight of the therapeutic area.

• Ensure CSO financial input is provided at early stages of projects.

• Accountable for ensuring the study/program performance within the CSO and for driving the multi-disciplinary TA CSO leadership team according to project requirements & defined project objectives in order to create the most value for the project.

• Transmits clear project requirements to the CSO functions.

People Management:

• Sets team goals and provides performance reviews for individual and team performance.

• Ensures development plans are in place for each team member. Manages resources across the team, ensures that appropriate resources are assigned for projects with the Therapeutic Areas.

• Manages, leads and supports ED PLs on his/her team. Develops ED PLs to drive project strategy and optimize operational plans, develop and negotiate study/program budgets, timelines and other operational outputs in order to establish clear expectations.

• In conjunction with the function leads within the CSO, builds study teams that are adapted to meet project’s needs/requirements.

• Lead CSO TA Leadership Team meetings to address status (operational, budget & resource) and critical issues.

• Foster a true, business minded, customer-oriented atmosphere and skill set for the project team allocated across functions.

About You  

•  PhD or master's degree in Biochemistry or Pharmacology preferred having a minimum of 12 years in clinical research. Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry, Pharmacology or Nursing with a minimum of 15 years’ experience in clinical research in pharmaceutical industry.

• Strong project management experience, transversal and strategic leadership capabilities, communication skills and a business acumen are required. 

• Ability to drive for a high performance cross-functional team that empowers and motivates individual members and the team as a whole.

• Strong interpersonal skills required to effectively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders (physicians, scientists, project heads an