Senior Director, Pharmacokinetics

## Senior Director, Pharmacokinetics Apply:
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R1564685
** Job Overview
** The Senior Director, Pharmacokinetics provides strategic, scientific, and operational leadership across Clinical Pharmacology PK/PD, Early Clinical Development Biostatistics, and Statistical Programming functions. This role is responsible for ensuring teams are appropriately resourced, equipped with the capabilities needed to meet client and project demands, and positioned to deliver high-quality outcomes across studies and development programs.  The position oversees the design and execution of early clinical development statistical strategies, including study design, analysis planning, reporting, programming delivery, standards implementation, and cross-functional collaboration.

The Senior Director will establish and execute strategic objectives, drive operational excellence, and lead initiatives that enhance functional performance, innovation, and organizational effectiveness.  Key responsibilities include accountability for the planning, budgeting, and delivery of PK/PD, biostatistics, and statistical programming activities across assigned projects and portfolios, ensuring alignment with scope, quality expectations, and timelines. The role also serves as a senior scientific and operational consultant for highly complex client engagements and development programs.  

Beyond departmental leadership, the Senior Director will contribute to the broader IQVIA BIOS organization by shaping functional strategy, advancing operational improvements, developing talent, promoting innovation, driving standards adoption, and leading cross-organizational initiatives that support long-term business objectives.  
** Essential Functions
*** Provide strategic, scientific, and operational leadership for Clinical Pharmacology PK/PD, Early Clinical Development Biostatistics, and Statistical Programming, ensuring high-quality, timely, and compliant delivery of project and program objectives.
* Oversee the quality, consistency, timeliness, and regulatory readiness of statistical, programming, and PK/PD deliverables, including analyses, reports, tables, listings, figures, datasets, define documentation, regulatory submissions, and decision-support outputs for IQVIA clients.
* Lead resource planning, workforce forecasting, capacity management, and project assignments across PK/PD, biostatistics, and statistical programming teams, ensuring optimal alignment of expertise and resources with portfolio and client needs.
* Provide strategic oversight of early clinical development statistical and programming activities, including study design consultation, statistical methodology, analysis planning, data review, reporting, interpretation, and submission strategy across clinical development programs.
* Establish, implement, and continuously enhance quality control, scientific review, and operational excellence processes to ensure the highest standards of quality, compliance, and efficiency.
* Participate in proposal development, budget planning, bid defenses, and client presentations, providing scientific and operational leadership for Clinical Pharmacology PK/PD, biostatistics, and statistical programming components of business opportunities.
* Serve as a senior scientific consultant on complex client engagements, clinical development programs, and regulatory strategies, providing guidance on PK/PD methodologies, development plans, study designs, and health authority interactions.
* Provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and career development support to PK/PD scientists, statisticians, programmers, and other functional staff, fostering capability growth and…