Scientific Director

Role Overview

• The Scientific Director provides high‑level scientific and strategic leadership across global clinical development activities.
• The role contributes to long‑term portfolio strategy, guides evidence‑generation planning, and supports key decisions that shape product development.
• The position leads cross‑functional scientific teams, collaborates with international stakeholders, and ensures strong oversight of external partners and governance bodies.
• Contribute to global clinical development strategy and long ‑ term planning for the product portfolio.
• Provide scientific guidance for early ‑ and late ‑ stage development activities, including study concept discussions and regulatory ‑ relevant documentation.
• Represent the organization in scientific forums, cross ‑ functional committees, and interactions with external stakeholders.
• Support the design and refinement of clinical study plans, ensuring scientific integrity and feasibility.
• Work closely with cross ‑ functional teams to enable smooth study execution and proactive issue resolution.
• Contribute to planning regarding timelines, resourcing, and budgeting for clinical activities.
• Provide scientific leadership to globally distributed teams and foster effective collaboration across key functions.
• Promote alignment between Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Biometrics, and related groups to support coherent decision ‑ making and program execution.
• Support organizational development initiatives by refining team roles, enhancing processes, and strengthening scientific capabilities across the function.
• Provide leadership in the evaluation, selection, and management of CROs and other external scientific partners.
• Ensure external partners deliver high ‑ quality outputs that align with program expectations and organizational standards.
• Lead scientific review or authorship of key clinical and regulatory documents, including clinical study reports, CTD modules, development reports, and expert statements.
• Provide high ‑ quality scientific contributions to internal and external presentations, regulatory submissions, and strategic project communications.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in Medicine (MD), Pharmacy, Life Sciences or related field; a PhD or medical‑scientific specialization is an asset.
• Extensive experience in clinical development strategy, including early‑phase and late‑phase product development.
• Proven track record in leading global clinical programs, shaping clinical development plans, and influencing portfolio strategy.
• Strong expertise in regulatory frameworks (ICH, GCP, EMA, FDA), including hands‑on experience with regulatory submissions (IND, IMPD, CTD modules).
• Demonstrated ability to provide high‑level scientific leadership, guiding evidence generation, study design decisions, target product profile development, and benefit‑risk assessments.
• Excellent strategic thinking, analytical capability, scientific judgment, and decision‑making skills.
• Proven experience managing budgets, cost centers, and resource allocation at the departmental level.
• Ability to represent the organization in regulatory meetings, scientific conferences, advisory boards, and other senior‑level external interactions.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written); additional languages are a plus.

Tech Stack

• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• You help save lives
• Every day is meaningful as we produce life-saving medicines
• Family values
• Long-term perspective for employees and relationships
• Be rewarded with market-related salary and benefits package
• You will have a high level of influence where you can make a difference and leave your footprint
• Work with skilled and fun colleagues in a relatively informal organization
• Skills development
• We offer various internal and external employee and leadership trainings, trainee programs and digital solutions