Sr. Medical Director, Clinical Development

Key Responsibilities

• Contributes to the overall clinical strategy for all or select RP programs from early development, through regulatory submissions and post-commercialization, with an emphasis from mid to late stages of development.
• Serve as Replimune’s clinical lead and point person on assigned programs and clinical trials from initiation to study discontinuation.
• Designs studies as per clinical strategy, driving clinical activities related to preparation and approval of synopses, protocols and the conduct of clinical studies.
• Responsible for the relevance and accuracy of medical science underpinning of clinical study based on thorough scientific review and consultation with internal and external experts.
• Organizes and conducts consultations with global opinion leaders and contributing to or leading Advisory Board meetings.
• Reviews and finalizes the medical and scientific portions of clinical study concepts and clinical study protocols and amendments.
• Reviews and edits documents related to trials, such as monitoring plans, SAPs, amendments, IRB/IEC submissions and regulatory submissions.
• Responsible for oversight of cross-functional study team and provides medical guidance to the clinical study teams.
• Responsible for medical monitoring activities in partnership with CRO, pharmacovigilance, biostatistics, clinical operations, and program leadership.
• Provide medical input and guidance to development and study/project teams and work collaboratively with cross-functional team members.
• Direct the interpretation of clinical and translational study data.
• Authors/contributes to clinical sections of communications/documentation for regulatory agencies and is a key contributor in meetings with agencies.
• Ensures that all the activities and clinical programs are in compliance with the GCP and regulatory requirements, as well as local and institutional requirements.
• Work with the Regulatory team and other cross functional representatives to ensure the timely preparation of high-quality documents to be submitted to the FDA and other health authorities for review.
• Work with program management to assure deep integration of objectives, achievement of milestones according to the timelines, and optimal use of resources across functions.
• Support the tactical development of clinical trials programs, including the prioritization of investigator sponsored studies in the context of the overall clinical strategy, and literature reviews.
• Collaborate with Medical Affairs on the development of educational materials intended for all stakeholders.
• Maintain understanding of competitors and clinical developments in relevant therapeutic areas by attending scientific meetings and tracking literature.
• Ensure the consistent application of state-of-the-art scientific and ethical methods to design clinical investigational trials of the highest quality.
• Help assure that all activities within clinical development are executed compliantly and to global industry standards as well as within expected scope, budget and timelines.
• Collaborate with colleagues in research and preclinical development functions to move product candidates from entry into clinical investigations.
• Actively support business development to evaluate product candidates, determine product indications and assist in related strategic planning and partnering discussions.

Other Responsibilities

• Completes and maintains Compliance training; provides input on new initiatives and makes recommendations on new compliance procedures; assists in the development of compliance and quality training materials.
• Will work with commercial to develop a commercialization strategy which will include development of TPPs based on competitive assessment and target positioning and will align the clinical development strategy with the commercial strategy, and may include the design of post-marketing studies, as appropriate.
• May be asked to serve on Replimune internal committees, as appropriate.
• May be asked to serve as a Replimune representative on external committees and foundations, as appropriate.
• Assists with the recruitment of new employees, mentors junior team members, contributes to relevant training materials, as well as provides guidance and assistance in new hires’ professional development.
• Other duties as assigned.