Vice President, Clinical Development

The role

The VP, Clinical Development will serve as the medical lead for base editing gene therapies in the metabolic franchise. This person will develop the vision, outline strategies, and oversee the implementation of all metabolic internal clinical development programs.

What you will do

• Lead efforts to develop and refine a vision for the Beam metabolic franchise strategy.
• Develop and implement near- and long-term goals and objectives.
• Provide medical counsel and scientific guidance to teams involved in metabolic therapeutic-related activities.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop integrated clinical/regulatory strategies.
• Support cross-functional metabolic teams.
• Design clinical development plans, target-product profiles and protocols.
• Provide strategic and medical oversight of planned and ongoing clinical trials.
• Ensure high quality clinical development standards regarding study design, conduct, and patient safety.
• Support the Research & Development Leadership Team and Business Development.
• Manage and mentor multiple physicians and clinical scientist direct reports.

Required qualifications

• MD, DO or equivalent ex-US medical degree.
• 17+ years’ experience, with 10+ years clinical development experience in industry is a must.
• Must have previous patient care experience.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully execute clinical development projects across all phases of drug discovery.
• Proven track record of successful interactions with regulatory authorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence experienced professionals.
• Ability to lead in a fast-changing environment.
• Broad knowledge and exposure across all R&D functions.
• Deep understanding of clinical/pre-clinical pharmaceutical development.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution skills.
• Effective communicator.

Nice to have

• Clinical or drug development experience in metabolic diseases and/or rare disease is desirable.
• Experience working with commercial strategies is desirable.

About the company

Beam Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to establishing the leading, fully integrated platform for precision genetic medicines. The company uses base editing technology to advance a diversified portfolio of base editing programs.