(Sr) Director, Clinical Science Liaison

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

We have a vacancy for Director/Senior Director, Clinical Science Liaison in the EMEA region. This is a permanent role and can be fully remote, hybrid or office based.

Discover impactful work

This position works cross functionally across Strategic Consulting, Medical Science and Strategy, and Project Delivery and has a primary role in growing PPD’s Clinical Science Liaison (CSL) function as a key differentiator in the CRO industry. Responsible for handling internal and external relationships and assembling and leading joint development teams supporting clinical programs. This role will be pivotal in ensuring effective communication with client leadership teams and PPD scientific and operational team stakeholders, working in collaboration with and on behalf of clients to ensure scientific excellence and operational integrity across clinical trial programs.

The Dir/Sr. Dir provides clinical development expertise into a multi-disciplinary team engaged in advising clients, internal stakeholders and interacting with sites and investigators in early through late-stage development of medical products. This role will provide CSL support as a member of core study teams responsible for establishing relationships with KOLs/PIs to provide enhanced peer-to-peer clinical/medial support enabling prioritization of trial recruitment and quality trial delivery and addressing scientific trial queries. The role will also support the PPD clinical trial proposal process to provide trial design considerations, and operational improvement of trial execution.

A day in the life:

Lead the organization and coordination of CSL activities for a globally distributed team.  Support the integration of the CSL role across the PASD and CRG, including establishing operational and procedural documents and standard operating procedures.  Strong influencing skills required to work with a cross-functional team (e.g., experts in clinical development strategy, clinical research, project management, regulatory strategy, CMC and toxicology strategy, biostatistics, clinical pharmacology and pharmacokinetics). In addition, this role will be involved in projects in partnership with clinical trials teams, who will provide additional training and mentorship.

• Lead the global CSL team, establish the function, functional procedures and training materials.

• Establish the bidding process for future projects, lead resources across studies, and provide senior oversight from a strategic, project execution and staffing perspective.

• Support KOLs, PIs and clinical trial sites by actively engaging with site personnel, overcoming recruitment challenges and concerns.

• Contribute to clinical trial scientific deliverables by providing scientific review and input to key study documents ensuring scientific rigor, consistency, and alignment with strategy.

• KOL mapping and coordination of key opinion leader advisory boards

• Contribute to clinical trial feasibility outreach through P2P discussions

• Support Clinical Development Leads with competitive intelligence for clinical development plans and strategic program assessments, regulatory submissions, and trial design.

Education and Experience

• MD, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent in a scientific discipline or related field required

Knowledge skills and abilities

• Expertise and experience with the conduct of global clinical trials for medical products clinical training and/or experience strongly preferred

• Seeking an experienced professional with outstanding client and site personnel facing skills.

• Familiarity with various clinical trial designs, including more sophisticated trials, study outcome interpretation skills

• 12 years of proven experience (following receipt of doctoral degree) in a clinical research setting, such as biotech/pharmaceutical industry, academia, government and/or non-profit.

• 5+ years of management responsibility

• Advanced leadership skills

• Expert in navigating scientific literature, interpretation of data and display of data

• Knowledge of GCP/IHC, regulatory guidelines and precedents

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Strong attention to detail. Good interpersonal skills, prioritization and time management skills.

• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment

• Highly proficient in standard computer software (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Clinical Trial Databases, Clinical Trial Intelligence Tools.