Director, Clinical Trial Team Lead - Immunology - 32384

Shape the future of early clinical development in immunology with us!

Are you ready to take a strategic and people leadership role in driving early clinical trial execution and developing the next generation of CTEEs? As CTEE Team Lead, you will provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to a team of Clinical Trial Execution Experts (CTEE) and Clinical Trial Leaders (CTLs) and ensure high quality planning, execution, and reporting of early clinical trials up to Proof of Concept (PoC).

You will report to the Head of Gastroenterology/Rheumatology within Experimental Medicine (Exp Med) Inflammation and will be part of the Extended Leadership Team.

You will play a key role in shaping clinical and operational excellence across Experimental Medicine, strengthening trial delivery capability, and contributing to the advancement of Boehringer
- Ingelheim’s innovative development pipeline.

• In your new role, you will lead a newly created team of highly experienced CTEEs/CTLs (Clinical Trial Execution Experts/ Clinical Trial Leaders) while simultaneously being responsible for the successful implementation of the CTEE role, as well as the development and growth of a high performing team.
• You will be accountable to providing strategy and guidance to CTEEs in applying science and the asset strategy for outcome driven clinical operations, integrating competitor insights, operational learnings, and development milestones.
• Furthermore, you will manage resources, resource planning, and budgeting within your area of responsibility and work closely with other members of the leadership team.
• You will ensure that timelines and deliverables are met, safeguard consistent application of operational standards, provide oversight of trial leadership across your team, supporting risk management, issue resolution, and quality performance, while maintaining safety and compliance with legal, regulatory and ethical requirements.
• Moreover, you will ensure effective, efficient, and high-quality operational setup, planning, execution, evaluation, and reporting of clinical trials up to PoC, in line with regulations, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• You will be accountable as the liaison function for CPLs and CTLs to link strategy and execution, fostering the strong cross‑functional collaboration among Exp Med Inflammation teams, ExpMED Clinical Operations, CDO Study Management, enabling functions, and external stakeholders to ensure aligned and efficient execution.
• In addition, you will shape and support operational excellence and innovation by optimizing processes, driving continuous improvement, and enabling a patient and site centric approach to trial execution.
• Finally, you will mentor team members in vendor engagement strategies, trial planning, stakeholder communication, and operational decision making, and you will be responsible for creating a motivating environment, promoting talent development, and ensuring a culture of belonging, empowerment, innovation, and cocreation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Science required, plus a minimum of twelve (12) years’ experience in clinical research with a minimum of six (6) years in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Long-term experience in early clinical development and translational medicine, including a proven record of delivering complex clinical trials with operational excellence e.g. as CTL in the Inflammation therapeutic area.
• Specific experience with clinical trials of cell therapy, T cell engager or other B cell depletion approaches is preferred.
• Deep expertise in immunology therapeutic areas, including competitive landscape understanding, regulatory and agency expectations, and awareness of emerging scientific and clinical trends.
• Demonstrated senior leadership experience in early phase clinical drug development (FiH, Phase I, PoC), including talent development and high performing team leadership.
• Significant hands‑on experience managing global immunology clinical operations, covering trial design, site and investigator oversight, CRO/vendor management, enrollment strategies, regulatory compliance, budgeting, GCP quality, study execution, and…