Senior Director, Clinical Science - Lung & Head & Neck

Merck; Rahway (NJ); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 230 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Merck in Rahway, NJ seeks a Senior Director of Clinical Science to provide strategic scientific leadership across the lung and head and neck portfolio. The role partners with Clinical Directors and program leads to shape development strategy and integrate insights across studies.

You will guide planning, evidence generation, medical monitoring, regulatory interactions, and publication planning, while mentoring teams and advancing digital and AI-enabled science across programs.

Responsabilités

• Provide strategic scientific leadership across programs, assets, or disease areas, ensuring quality and consistency of Clinical Science approaches
• Shape the development and evolution of Clinical Development Plans and set strategic direction for study design
• Provide oversight of medical monitoring and medical data review approaches and guide interpretation of complex clinical data across programs
• Integrate clinical evidence, therapeutic-area science, emerging external data, and competitive insights to shape development strategy across programs
• Provide strategic oversight and clinical guidance for key regulatory documents, Health Authority interactions, and other major development activities
• Shape governance strategy and communicate scientific development opportunities to senior leaders
• Shape scientific publication and external engagement strategies and develop strategic relationships with investigators and key opinion leaders
• Provide strategic oversight of clinical/scientific quality, risk management, and audit and inspection readiness across areas of responsibility
• Shape digital and AI-enabled Clinical Science approaches, identify high-value use cases, and drive scalable adoption across programs
• Shape Clinical Science standards, leading practices, and ways of working across programs or disease areas
• Develop Clinical Science talent and organizational capabilities through scientific leadership, coaching, mentoring, and sponsorship
• May lead a large Clinical Science team

Connaissances

Clinical development

Regulatory landscape

Therapeutic expertise

Strategic leadership

Data interpretation

Description du poste

Merck in Rahway, NJ seeks a Senior Director of Clinical Science to provide strategic scientific leadership across the lung and head and neck portfolio. The role partners with Clinical Directors and program leads to shape development strategy and integrate insights across studies.

You will guide planning, evidence generation, medical monitoring, regulatory interactions, and publication planning, while mentoring teams and advancing digital and AI-enabled science across programs.