Associate Director, Clinical Science Liaison

Employment Type: Full time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

Position Overview

The Associate Director, Clinical Science Liaison provides clinical development expertise to a multi-disciplinary team engaged in advising clients, internal partners, and interacting with sites and investigators in early through late-stage development of medical products. This role will provide clinical science liaison support as a member of core study teams responsible for establishing relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)/Principal Investigators (PIs) to provide enhanced peer-to-peer clinical/medical support, enabling prioritization of trial recruitment and quality trial delivery, and addressing scientific trial queries. The role will also support the PPD clinical trial proposal process by providing trial design considerations and operational improvements for trial execution.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Science Liaison Activities:
  • Support KOLs, PIs, and clinical trial sites by actively engaging with site personnel.
  • Overcome recruitment challenges and concerns.
• Clinical Trial Scientific Deliverables:
  • Contribute to scientific review and input for key study documents, ensuring scientific rigor, consistency, and alignment with strategy.
• KOL Management:
  • Perform KOL mapping and coordinate key opinion leader advisory boards.
• Clinical Trial Feasibility:
  • Support clinical trial feasibility outreach through peer-to-peer (P2P) discussions.
• Strategic Support:
  • Support Clinical Development Leads with competitive intelligence for clinical development plans and strategic program assessments.
  • Assist with regulatory submissions and trial design.
• Team Collaboration:
  • Demonstrate strong teamwork skills to collaborate with a cross-functional consulting team (e.g., experts in clinical development strategy, clinical research, regulatory strategy, CMC and toxicology strategy, biostatistics, clinical pharmacology and pharmacokinetics).
  • Participate in projects in partnership with clinical trials teams, who will provide additional training and guidance.

Education and Experience

• Required Education: MD, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent in a scientific subject area or related field.
• Preferred Experience:
  • Expertise and experience with the conduct of global clinical trials for medical products.
  • Clinical training and/or experience strongly preferred.
  • Exceptional client and site personnel facing skills.
  • Familiarity with various clinical trial designs, including more complex trials.
  • Study outcome interpretation skills.
  • 6+ years of experience (following receipt of doctoral degree) in a clinical research setting, such as biotech/pharmaceutical industry, academia, government, and/or non-profit.