Executive Director, Multiple Myeloma Pipeline Lead

The role

The Executive Director provides strategic, scientific, and medical leadership for the Multiple Myeloma Pipeline. This person will define and execute integrated clinical development strategies across a portfolio of assets.

What you will do

• Serve as the clinical lead for the Multiple Myeloma Pipeline.
• Develop and maintain an integrated clinical development strategy.
• Drive pipeline prioritization, asset sequencing, and resource-allocation.
• Develop and execute integrated clinical development plans.
• Lead the design, execution, monitoring, and reporting of early clinical studies.
• Lead or contribute to late-stage clinical development activities.
• Establish data-driven advancement, pause, and termination criteria for pipeline assets.
• Identify opportunities to differentiate and expand the Multiple Myeloma Pipeline.
• Partner with Research, Translational Science, Business Development, Commercial, and Corporate Strategy.
• Provide clinical leadership for protocols, regulatory documents, and IND submissions.

Required qualifications

• MD, MD-PhD, or equivalent medical degree
• Board certification in hematology or oncology
• Minimum of 6 years of clinical development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and/or academic medicine
• Substantial experience in hematologic malignancies and multiple myeloma
• Demonstrated experience designing and leading early clinical development programs
• Strong understanding of multiple myeloma clinical development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong collaboration, influencing, conflict-management, negotiation, and decision-making skills
• Ability to travel up to 15–20% of the time

Nice to have

• Substantial expertise in multiple myeloma clinical development, including experience across relapsed/refractory and earlier-line treatment settings
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to a clinical development pipeline containing multiple assets, programs, indications, or lifecycle-management opportunities
• Experience supporting pipeline governance, asset prioritization, resource-allocation discussions, investment decisions, and strategic development planning
• Experience with cell therapy, CAR-T, in vivo cell therapy, T-cell engagers, bispecific antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, protein degraders, or other innovative therapies relevant to multiple myelo
• Experience contributing to IND submissions, pre-IND or IND meetings, regulatory briefing packages, and health authority interactions
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to cross-functional development teams in a matrixed, global environment

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match that vests fully on day one
• Eight weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment
• Paid time off including vacation, personal, sick, floating holidays, and eleven company holidays
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Legal assistance
• Supplemental plans such as pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Voluntary commuter benefits
• Family planning and care resources
• Well-being initiatives and peer-to-peer recognition programs

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
• Employment eligibility will be verified through E-Verify

About the company

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating and, one day, curing life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, the company advances the next generation of cell therapy through a portfolio of innovative technologies.