Verastem
Medical Director, Clinical Development
Boston, Massachusetts · Director
Sponsorship not specified$250k-$310kDetected 27 days ago
Clinical TrialsPharmacologyFDA RegulatoryAnimal StudiesLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- Reporting to the Vice President of Clinical Development.
- The position provides medical and scientific leadership for Verastem's potentially best-in-class KRAS G12D ON/OFF inhibitor: VS-7375 Program.
- Serves as the primary medical / safety contact for assigned clinical trials, ensuring compliance and patient safety.
Responsibilities
- Supports the design and execution of assigned clinical trial(s) and works closely with cross functional study team members to execute activities associated with the conduct of the clinical trials.
- Partners with Clinical Science, Data Management, Statistical Programing to ensure data integrity. Lead regular data reviews and insight generation to guide development strategy.
- Collaborates with Safety on reporting of identified adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and other safety-related events. Contributes to safety profile characterization and corresponding risk mitigation strategy / plans.
- Authors and develop key study and regulatory documents with the cross functional team, including, but not limited to study protocol, investigator brochure, informed consent form, and clinical study reports.
- Represents the study / program and interacts on a regular basis with key internal / external partners and stakeholders, including key opinion leaders, clinical investigators, clinicians, scientists as well as internal leadership team and R&D.
- Lead and present at investigator meetings and advisory committees.
- Maintains scientific and clinical knowledge in oncology and provides input on Verastem's pipeline, translational and preclinical work.
- Partners with Clinical Science, Data Management, Statistical Programing to ensure data integrity.
- Lead regular data reviews and insight generation to guide development strategy.
- Collaborates with Safety on reporting of identified adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and other safety-related events.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in biotech / pharma industry oncology drug development (or substantial investigational therapeutics experience as a clinical investigator if not meeting industry experience requirement) is required
- Knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (cGCP)
- Knowledge of current external regulatory environment, e.g. FDA, EMA requirements
Skills
- effective at summarizing and presenting the key considerations and decision-points.
- Comfortable working in fast paced entrepreneurial environment, with a flexible mindset to be successful in a biotech corporate culture.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
- Board-certified in oncology
- Experience in early phase drug development
- Working knowledge on translational science
Compensation
- The base salary range ($250,000 - $310,000) provided reflects our current estimate of what we anticipate paying for this position.
Benefits
- Serve as the primary contact for medical-related inquiries from investigators, regulatory agencies, and internal/external teams, ensuring consistent protocol interpretation and clarification.
- Apply deep scientific expertise to assess benefit-risk profiles, inform complex development decisions.
- We are looking for a Medical Director (level dependent on qualifications) to support our growing Clinical Development team!
- The position provides medical and scientific leadership for
- Medical Degree (M.D. or equivalent) required.
Apply directly at Verastem →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Verastem immigration profile
This listing is sourced directly from Verastem's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.