Senior Clinical Research Director

Job title:

Senior Clinical Research Director

• Location:
  
  Cambridge, MA

The Senior Clinical Research Director (sCRD) is noted as the primary clinical expert for programs. The role requires a well-organized, strategic and operationally focused, resourceful individual with very good emotional intelligence, self-motivation, solid analytical skills and the ability deliver to multiple operational tasks.

• Reporting to the Global Project Head (GPH) or Principal Clinical Lead (PCL), interact with other CRDs in the project, Pharmaco Vigilance, Regulatory and other key functional reps.
• Provide medical expertise to the clinical studies (except select Exploratory Pharmacology studies) and/or registries (eg: protocol, Key Results, Clinical Study Report).
• Support other clinical development activities (e.g. pressure test and cluster feasibility, medical review and validation of clinical data, study risk assessment).
• Contribute to the Extended synopsis and Protocol for their project.
• Contribute to the clinical part of submission dossier for their projects:
  Common Technical Document for FDA & EMA submission, filing in Japan and China and answers to questions from health authorities.
• Provide appropriate medical input & support for all activities related to clinical studies such as medical training, feasibility, medical review of data, medical information for the study team, medical advisors/Clinical Project Leaders from Clinical Study Units, and investigators.
• Be the medical reference in the Clinical Study team, ensuring the medical relevance of the clinical data.

Join the engine of Sanofis mission where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, youll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions.

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Leading the clinical development plan :

• Responsible for clinical development plans and clinical sections of integrated development plans (IDP).
• Collaborate with other CRDs within the project, ensure leadership, buildsconsensus, coordinate action plans with stakeholders to resolve project-related study issues, anticipate potential issues (sharing lessons learned) across the project or study teams.
• Raise study or project-level issues to the GPH and/or PCL.
• Contribute to definition of the product value proposition (TVP), TPP and market access strategy (in collaboration with respective functions) and focus the research strategy, from a clinical perspective.
• Collaborate with external partners, regulators, and diverse internal stakeholders and collaborators.
• Evaluates relevant medical literature and status from competitive products.

Lead, Support and oversee the execution of clinical development and studies activities:

• Review and validate the final protocol and protocol amendments.
• Review the ICF WSI and TDF.
• Assisted by related functions (e.g. clinical operations, project management, and procurement), responsible for timelines, budgets and contingency/risk management plans to assure successful execution of the clinical trials in compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), applicable laws and regulations as well as applicable standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Lead the study specific committees (IDMC, steering com, adjudication ) with operational support.
• Co-Develop the SAP in collaboration with bio stats.
• Responsible for key results preparation.
• Develop the clinical study report.

• Develop the abbreviated protocol.
• Develop the final protocol and protocol amendments.
• Medical support to clinical operation team during the clinical feasibility.
• Review and provide clinical input across different study documents written subject information, CRF, e-diary, monitoring plan.
• Medical support to clinical operations team on study plans: CMP/MRP, DR & DS review.
• Review/approve study-related documents (eg vendor specifications for centralized services, CRF, CRF completion guidance, patient diary).
• Participate in the elaboration of training material and presentations at the investigator meetings.
• Ensure continuous medical review of aggregated data during clinical trial conduct (DRSR, safety, stat outputs of blinded data) with operational support, bio stat and GSO.
• Answer to medical questions raised by EC/IRBs, sites.
• Support CRD trial master file documents readiness and availability, and mandatory trainings linked to the clinical function.