Executive Director, Head of Clinical Science and Medical Writing

CSL's R&D organization is accelerating innovation to deliver greater impact for patients. With a project-led structure and a focus on collaboration, we’re building a future-ready team that thrives in dynamic biotech ecosystems. Joining CSL now means being part of an agile team committed to developing therapies that make a meaningful difference worldwide.

Your role

The incumbent will be responsible for the quality and delivery of clinical studies and clinical and regualtory documents across the portfolio in collaboration with strategic CRO partners. Responsible for overseeing the recruiting, staffing and development of the clinical scientists and medical writing specialists in the group. 

Your responsibilities will include

Oversight of Individuals

• Recruiting, staffing, training and development of clinical scientists and medical writing specialists in the group, to maintain a dynamic and cutting-edge level of medical scientific expertise and advanced drug development approaches

Ensuring delivery of high-quality clinical development content including:

• Clinical development plans, protocols, study reports, common technical document modules and publications in academic journals
• Regulatory submissions and meetings 
• Stage-gate and benefit –risk evaluations and assessments
• Presentations at scientific and technical review committees
• Implementation of clinical recommendations from all advisory and governance committees

Internal interfaces and collaboration

• Member of the Clinical Development Leadership Team
• Will be responsible for managing a team of approximately 50 Scientists .
• Oversight of and collaboration with partnering functions, e.g. Clinical Operations, Research, GRA & Safety to assure an effective project related deliveries
• Participate and/or lead enterprise initiatives
• Maintaining effective oversight of quality in conjunction with appropriate Quality functions

External-scientific  

• Enhancing the reputation of the Company through a culture of scientific integration of the department with the scientific community and other partners through visible publication record, KOL interactions, presence at scientific conferences, membership of consortia and similar medico-scientific groups, builds networks with scientific experts
• Ensures that the patient and health-care provider voice is integrated into CSL’s development mindset

Building a culture of risk taking, innovation and peer review across the clinical function

Providing clinical scientific and medical writing leadership throughout CSL

Providing support and insight into business development opportunities as required

Your skills & experience

• Graduate level degree (M.Sc, PhD, MD etc) preferred.
• 10 years+ of Pharma experience in clinical development
• Clinical Scientist experience across all phases of development, FIH, POC, late-stage development and life cycle management.
• Medical writing experience.
• Strong track record of leadership skills.
• Enhanced organizational awareness and the ability to interact and influence from the team level to senior management
• Extensive experience of leading teams and/or line managing a group(s)

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About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

 To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.