Clinical Scientist Associate Director
About this opportunity
Career Category
Clinical
Job Description
What you will do
In this role, the Clinical Scientist Associate Director supports the design, execution, and oversight of clinical trials and other late-phase global clinical studies. The role contributes to protocol development, study execution, medical monitoring support, and clinical data review, ensuring delivery of high-quality, decision-ready clinical data for regulatory submissions and scientific dissemination.
Support the design, start-up, and execution of global clinical trials, ensuring adherence to protocol, regulatory requirements, and data integrity standards.
Contribute to development of clinical protocols, statistical analysis plans, investigator brochures, and regulatory documents, with focus on study endpoints, key efficacy outcomes, and safety assessments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support endpoint strategy, event adjudication processes, and safety monitoring.
Participate in development and oversight of endpoint adjudication charters, safety monitoring plans, and Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) interactions.
Provide clinical input into data management plans, CRF design, and clinical data review, with focus on key study endpoints, efficacy and safety outcomes, and/or imaging or biomarker endpoints, as applicable.
Conduct ongoing clinical data review and signal detection, supporting identification and resolution of safety and data quality issues across global trial sites.
Support preparation and interpretation of interim analyses, database lock activities, and top-line data readouts.
Assist Development Lead and Clinical Scientist Director with medical monitoring activities and oversight of CROs, vendors, and adjudication committees.
Collaborate with clinical operations, biostatistics, safety, regulatory, and medical affairs teams to ensure successful delivery of clinical studies across relevant indications and endpoint strategies.
Contribute to clinical study reports, regulatory submissions, scientific publications, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
Identify operational or scientific risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies across cross-functional teams.
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 3 years of life sciences/healthcare experience
OR
Master’s degree and 5 years of life sciences/healthcare experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of life sciences/healthcare experience
Preferred Qualifications:
3 years of pharmaceutical clinical drug development experience, including experience supporting late-stage, global clinical trials.
Demonstrated experience contributing to clinical trial process improvements within a therapeutic area or study team environment
Industry or academic experience in a relevant therapeutic area and/or clinical trials; experience in large global studies preferred.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly convey scientific concepts and clinical data to cross-functional teams and leadership audiences, both written and oral
Experience supporting the design, monitoring, and implementation of clinical trials in compliance with Good Clinical Practice standards and applicable regulatory requirements
Working knowledge of study data readout activities, including data cleaning, database lock, data extraction, endpoint validation, and generation of analysis outputs to support topline and final results.
Experience contributing to regulatory submission documents and supporting clinical regulatory responses for health authority interactions under guidance
Experience serving as a contributing author on scientific publications or data presentations for internal forums or scientific conferences
Experience in clinical data review and analysis tools such as Spotfire, listings review platforms, or other data visualization and analysis tools.
. Salary Range
90,787.65 EUR - 122,830.35 EUR
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Drug Discovery & Preclinical Research role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 136 comparable Associate Director Drug Discovery & Preclinical Research roles across 27 biopharma companies.
Salary context
43 of 136 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 136 comparable roles
+ 5 more countries
Seniority mix
136 of 136 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
16 of 136 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
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How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.