Director Clinician, Early Clinical Development (ECD)
- Employer
- Pfizer
- Location
- Remote, New Jersey
- Start date
- Jul 30, 2021
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- Discipline
- Clinical, Clinical Development, Clinical Research
- Required Education
- Doctorate/PHD/MD
- Position Type
- Full time
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ROLE SUMMARY
The overall role of the Early Clinical Development (ECD) Clinician is to lead and coordinate the development of multiple studies for novel biological and small molecule therapies for first in man (FIH), proof of mechanism (POM), early signals of efficacy (ESOE) and proof of concept (POC) studies in a given therapeutic areas: for this position the therapeutic areas include Internal Medicine, Rare Diseases and Immunology and Inflammation. The ECD Clinician will lead the development of the clinical protocol and participate as an individual contributor on clinical teams with Pfizer development operations and the project team, to meet enrollment and study delivery timelines. The ECD Clinician will work with other functional disciples to ensure the full scope and remit of ECD is represented as need within clinical study teams (e.g. Research Units, Biostatistics, Clinical Pharmacology, Precision Medicine, and Digital Medicine).
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
• Responsible for scientific leadership and execution of clinical studies and delivering on innovative clinical study designs, high quality trial execution, safety assessment and interpretation of clinical study results
• Supports execution for all post-FIH programs through proof-of concept
• Serve as technical resource for clinical issues raised by internal and external collaborators, investigators, consultants and contractors
• Support and assist in the development of publications, abstracts, and presentations
• Sit on project teams to support clinical development implementation and contribution to key development milestones, e.g. start-up and delivery of ESoE and PoC trials.
• Lead preparation of clinical protocol and lead or support other critical documents, including clinical development plan, investigator brochure, statistical analysis plan and regulatory documents.
• Foster a transparent environment that encourages strong partnerships and mutual trust between teams, sub-teams, and therapeutic areas.
• Coordinate with other clinical research activities in ECD and greater World-Wide Research and Development (WRD) organization.
• Develop effective collaborations with key partners in Pfizer Discovery Research Units (RU) and Operations.
• Develop effective collaborations with project leaders and projects team members, including research units, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, clinical pharmacology, human genetics, precision medicine and development operations.
• Partner with Precision Medicine as needed to ensure that biomarker plans are enabled in all relevant therapeutic area programs to help determine early signs of efficacy and proof of concept, patient stratification, etc.
• Establish and support relationships with external experts, consultants, key opinion leaders, regulators and disease specific investigator networks to ensure implementation of latest clinical thinking and guidelines into clinicaldevelopment plans and study designs, as well as management and recruitment of study, analysis, interpretation and presentation of results.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of scientific and clinical published literature in relevant therapeutic areas including the key clinical development issues.
QUALIFICATIONS
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
• Requires PhD, PharmD, MSc, BSc
• Deep understanding of the biopharmaceutical environment and the drug development
• 5-8 years of relevant experience in drug development; 3-5 years of relevant experience in a clinician type role with a proven track record executing development programs to completion ortargeted milestone
• Strong interpersonal skills and expert team player with demonstrated ability to build consensus and drive change across all levels of the organization including senior management
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
Occasional Travel (5-10%)
Other Job Details:
Eligible for Relocation Package
Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus
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