Senior Clinical Development Director

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**Senior Clinical Development Director (M/F/d)**

At Bayer Research & Early Development Oncology (RED Onc), we discover and develop the future of cancer care by focusing on targets that impact tumor-specific vulnerabilities, initially agnostic to tumor type or modality, to help us find the medicines that will bring the most value to our patients.

The Early Clinical Development Group (ECDO) is a team of physician-scientists within RED Onc that translates science into patient care focusing on patient centricity, speed and urgency.

The primary responsibility of this role is to provide overall clinical scientific leadership for one or more pre-clinical or clinical assets. You (M/F/d) will be responsible for leading the design, operational planning, execution and decision making for one or more clinical studies. In addition, you (M/F/d) will have the opportunity to influence and collaborate with discovery/preclinical development in identifying targets by providing clinical scientific guidance and perspective.

**YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Be responsible for the design and execution of the clinical strategy of early assets based on deep scientific and disease biology understanding, translational expertise and medical knowledge, including patient safety and data integrity
- Represent the ECD at the Global Project Team and other decision/governance meetings, senior leaders
- Create and translate Target Product Profile into clinical strategy
- Oversee protocol development
- Enable decision-making by interpreting safety and efficacy data taking into account relevant PK/PD data working together with a cross-functional team
- Serve as the primary clinical contact for study medical and patient safety aspects supported by Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Trial Scientist
- May supervise employees, both directly and indirectly through a matrix structure
- Develop high impact relationships with internal partners across research, translational science, and clinical development functions as well as establish, lead, and manage relationships with key external stakeholders (e.g. investigators, Key Opinion Leaders, health authorities)

**WHO YOU ARE**
- Medical excellence: M.D., M.D./PhD or equivalent degree and several years of experience in direct patient care; board certification within oncology/hematology
- Scientific excellence: Demonstrated by a track record of relevant basic and/or translation research documented in peer reviewed publications
- Relevant drug development expertise:

- Several years of drug development experience, including expertise in early drug development
- Experience in different drug development stages
- Expertise with cancer and non-cancer cell targeted drugs as well as different modalities including small and large molecules
- Relevant global health authority interactions
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, coupled with the ability to develop and implement a strategic growth plan
- High energy with focus and vision; self-motivated with a high sense of ownership, urgency, proactive and solution-oriented
- Strong consensus-building skills and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams towards sound decision-making
- Strong written and oral communication skills and high degree of fluency in written and verbal English

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**YOUR APPLICATION**

This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.

**Location**: Germany : Berlin : Berlin

**Division**: Pharmaceuticals

**Reference Code**:788795