Senior Vice President, Clinical Development

The role

The Head of Clinical Development leads the development, execution, and communication of the global medical and scientific evidence generation strategy. This person builds the global clinical development organization and manages clinical trials to inform product benefit-risk.

What you will do

• Build, grow, and lead the global clinical development organization
• Develop and execute global development strategy and resultant evidence generation plan
• Design, execute, complete, and communicate clinical trials
• Deliver robust clinical trial data on-time and on-budget
• Interface with global medical opinion leaders in obesity
• Clear, data-based, patient-focused communications with global regulators
• Provide clinical input to regulatory, safety, medical affairs, commercial, payer, and manufacturing colleagues

Required qualifications

• At least 15 years of clinical development experience with proven track record of executing clinical trials and global regulatory interactions
• Significant late-stage development experience across large-scale, complex programs
• Exceptional cross-functional communication skills
• Prior leadership, budgeting and resource management experience
• Uncompromising ethics, passion for teamwork and people, attention to detail, solution focus, and strong communication skills
• Ability and willingness to fly at necessary altitude to get job done
• A drive for problem solving, continual learning, and attracting, mentoring, and retaining best people
• MD or equivalent

Nice to have

• Experience in obesity and/or metabolic disease
• Local candidates

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage
• Flexible time off
• Paid holidays
• Year-end shutdown
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Generous 401(k) match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Commuter benefits
• Disability and life insurance
• Annual bonus opportunities
• Equity grants

About the company

Kailera is working to advance novel therapies for obesity and related conditions. The company is rooted in an entrepreneurial spirit and a team-oriented culture.