
Work Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Shift: No
Department: HC-RD-OC Clinical Development Immunology
Recruiter: *North_America Recruitingteam
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Your Role
You will provide senior medical and strategic leadership across global immunology clinical development programs, ensuring scientific rigor, patient-centricity, and alignment with asset strategy, portfolio priorities, and regulatory expectations. You will lead global clinical development planning, including target product profiles, indication strategy, evidence generation plans, and lifecycle considerations.
You will serve as a senior medical decision-maker within global program teams, providing strategic recommendations on development options, benefit-risk considerations, data interpretation, and key program risks. You will drive protocol development, oversee clinical execution, and ensure decisions are clearly documented with rationale, risks, and mitigations.
You will collaborate closely across Clinical Development, Regulatory, Safety, Biostatistics, Translational Medicine, Medical Affairs, Market Access, and other key functions to ensure integrated delivery of global development plans. You will support and lead, as appropriate, regulatory interactions and communicate clinical results through study reports, regulatory documents, publications, governance forums, and external scientific forums.
You will engage investigators, key opinion leaders, advisory boards, and patient communities compliantly to inform clinical strategy and enhance scientific credibility. You will provide matrix leadership to cross-functional teams and mentor clinical development colleagues as needed, fostering accountability, collaboration, and high-quality execution. This role will be based for a minimum of 3 days a week onsite.
Who You Are
Pay Range for this position: $229,800 - $381,700
The offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. The actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level of experience, education, skills, and other job-related factors. Position may be eligible for sales or performance-based bonuses. Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other perquisites. For more information click here
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