Senior Group Director, Clinical Scientist - Immunology

·    Clinical development expertise in one or more immunology disease areas and experience with innovative therapeutic modalities, including cell therapy, biologics, or other advanced therapies.

·    Experience leading a discipline, skill group, community of practice, or departmental capability initiative.

·    Experience with portfolio planning, departmental resource management, operating-model design, or delivery of functional scorecard objectives.

·    Experience leading external alliances or collaborations with academic institutions, investigators, consortia, service providers, CROs, or strategic partners.

·    Understanding of translational medicine, biomarkers, clinical pharmacology, biostatistics, data science, safety, regulatory, CMC, and commercial considerations across the development lifecycle.

·    External scientific credibility demonstrated through publications, presentations, professional networks, or recognized contribution to the field.

·    Familiarity with clinical review and analytics tools including AI and with data-analysis environments

·    Ability to travel nationally and internationally as required.

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $233,586.40 - $350,379.60 USD. Our positions offer eligibility for various incentives—an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles. Benefits offered include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves), as well as health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

·       Line manage Clinical Scientists across recruitment, onboarding, objectives, performance, succession, career development, retention, and project and study allocation.

·       Build an inclusive, high-performing team through clear expectations, feedback, coaching, mentorship, development plans, and appropriate delegation and oversight.

·       Balance portfolio demand, capability, development opportunities, and business priorities; anticipate capacity and skill gaps and propose practical resourcing solutions.

·       Contribute to departmental leadership, operating-model decisions, talent and resource reviews, issue resolution, and non-drug scorecard priorities; may serve as Clinical Science Skills Lead, strengthening procedures, training, communities of practice, and continuous improvement in quality, consistency, efficiency, and inspection readiness.

·       Provide portfolio-level Clinical Science insight to prioritize work, connect evidence needs across programs, and guide transparent trade-offs and resource decisions.

·       Partner Lead with Clinical team to lead to shape strategy and execution; lead or support the Clinical Development Plan in alignment with the Target Product Profile, disease strategy, patient needs, and emerging evidence.

·       Influence Global Project Teams and senior governance through evidence-based recommendations that clarify uncertainties, benefit-risk, operational implications, and decision points; resolve cross-functional issues and lead or support external alliances with clear expectations, governance, and risk management.

·       Lead clinical study design and delivery aligned with the Clinical Development Plan, ensuring objectives, endpoints, estimands, assessments, and operational choices generate decision-enabling evidence.

·       Lead or provide senior review of strategic study documents and translate protocol intent into practical site and data-collection workflows; guide study teams and external partners through clear cross-functional accountabilities and risk-based oversight.

·       Oversee clinical data review, eligibility, data cleaning, and analysis readiness; ensure traceability from endpoints to outputs and integrate efficacy, safety, PK/PD, biomarker, and translational evidence into clear recommendations with the responsible Physician or Clinical Lead.

·       Partner with the Study Physician and Pharmacovigilance on safety surveillance, reconciliation, aggregate trends, and safety-review materials; escalate findings requiring medical judgment and ensure documented issue closure, regulatory compliance, and inspection readiness.

·       Lead or review Clinical Science contributions to regulatory submissions, health-authority interactions, publications, and scientific disclosures; maintain consistency across outputs, translate external developments into strategy, and represent Clinical Science with external stakeholders.