Senior Director, Oncology Clinical Development

Scorpion Therapeutics; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long-term incentive

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in Pennsylvania seeks an MD/PhD physician with strong oncology/hematology background to lead clinical research for oncology programs. Overseeing late-stage development from Phases 2–5, you will direct multidisciplinary teams, author regulatory documents, and guide strategy across trials, safety reviews, and publications.

You will engage with external scientific leaders, manage governance at stage gates, and contribute to business development discussions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years clinical medicine experience.
• 5+ years industry drug development with success overseeing multiple studies/protocols.
• Experience authoring regulatory documents; leading regulatory discussions.
• Strong scientific scholarship and biomedical research background.
• Advanced interpersonal/collaboration in matrix environments; clear verbal/written/presentation communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and direction of clinical research activities in Oncology (Hematology) for new or marketed medicines.
• Manage late-stage clinical development lifecycle from Phase 2–Phase 5 (strategy/design, protocol authoring, initiation, execution, monitoring, analysis, regulatory reporting, publication, and conference presentations).
• Lead cross-functional product development teams; provide internal scientific leadership; interact with external scientific leaders.
• Evaluate pre-clinical/translational work; develop early clinical plans and IND applications.
• Develop and execute clinical development strategies; plan and lead clinical trials and clinical subteams.
• Monitor and manage conduct of clinical trials.
• Analyze/summarize clinical findings to support safety/efficacy decisions, regulatory submissions, reports, and publications.
• Support business development assessments; collaborate across commercialization, regulatory, statistics, and manufacturing.
• Lead governance presentations between stage gates; manage Clinical Directors/Senior Clinical Directors.
• Maintain awareness of scientific developments; identify investigators; communicate with clinical investigators; attend scientific meetings.

Skills

MD/PhD

Board Certified/Eligible in Oncology/H

Education

MD or MD/PhD

Job description

Scorpion Therapeutics in Pennsylvania seeks an MD/PhD physician with strong oncology/hematology background to lead clinical research for oncology programs. Overseeing late-stage development from Phases 2–5, you will direct multidisciplinary teams, author regulatory documents, and guide strategy across trials, safety reviews, and publications.

You will engage with external scientific leaders, manage governance at stage gates, and contribute to business development discussions.