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In this role, the Clinical Scientist Associate Director supports the design, execution, and oversight of clinical trials and other late-phase global clinical studies. The role contributes to protocol development, study execution, medical monitoring support, and clinical data review, ensuring delivery of high-quality, decision-ready clinical data for regulatory submissions and scientific dissemination.
Job Responsibility
Support the design, start-up, and execution of global clinical trials, ensuring adherence to protocol, regulatory requirements, and data integrity standards
Contribute to development of clinical protocols, statistical analysis plans, investigator brochures, and regulatory documents, with focus on study endpoints, key efficacy outcomes, and safety assessments
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support endpoint strategy, event adjudication processes, and safety monitoring
Participate in development and oversight of endpoint adjudication charters, safety monitoring plans, and Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) interactions
Provide clinical input into data management plans, CRF design, and clinical data review, with focus on key study endpoints, efficacy and safety outcomes, and/or imaging or biomarker endpoints, as applicable
Conduct ongoing clinical data review and signal detection, supporting identification and resolution of safety and data quality issues across global trial sites
Support preparation and interpretation of interim analyses, database lock activities, and top-line data readouts
Assist Development Lead and Clinical Scientist Director with medical monitoring activities and oversight of CROs, vendors, and adjudication committees
Collaborate with clinical operations, biostatistics, safety, regulatory, and medical affairs teams to ensure successful delivery of clinical studies across relevant indications and endpoint strategies
Contribute to clinical study reports, regulatory submissions, scientific publications, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders
Identify operational or scientific risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies across cross-functional teams.
Requirements
Doctorate degree and 3 years of life sciences/healthcare experience
Master’s degree and 5 years of life sciences/healthcare experience
Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of life sciences/healthcare experience
Nice to have
3 years of pharmaceutical clinical drug development experience, including experience supporting late-stage, global clinical trials
Demonstrated experience contributing to clinical trial process improvements within a therapeutic area or study team environment
Industry or academic experience in a relevant therapeutic area and/or clinical trials
experience in large global studies preferred
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly convey scientific concepts and clinical data to cross-functional teams and leadership audiences, both written and oral
Experience supporting the design, monitoring, and implementation of clinical trials in compliance with Good Clinical Practice standards and applicable regulatory requirements
Working knowledge of study data readout activities, including data cleaning, database lock, data extraction, endpoint validation, and generation of analysis outputs to support topline and final results
Experience contributing to regulatory submission documents and supporting clinical regulatory responses for health authority interactions under guidance
Experience serving as a contributing author on scientific publications or data presentations for internal forums or scientific conferences
Experience in clinical data review and analysis tools such as Spotfire, listings review platforms, or other data visualization and analysis tools.