Clinical Innovation Executive Director
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Clinical innovation executive directing AI, automation, and digital transformation for Worldwide Clinical Trials, a global CRO. Building scalable clinical-development solutions, governance, and measurable business value.
Responsibilities:
- Define the enterprise clinical innovation vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities across automation, AI, analytics, and workflow transformation
- Build and prioritize an innovation portfolio aligned with strategic, operational, financial, and customer objectives
- Lead structured experimentation through PoCs and PoVs, establishing objectives, success measures, risks, decision criteria, and recommendations
- Translate clinical and operational needs into solution, workflow, data, integration, control, and support requirements with IT and EPMO
- Shape business cases, ROI models, implementation plans, and value-realization frameworks
- Drive operational readiness and adoption, including ownership, training, communications, human oversight, exception handling, feedback, and transition to business-as-usual operations
- Establish governance for responsible AI, automation, and clinical innovation with Quality, Compliance, Legal, Information Security, Privacy, and Regulatory stakeholders
- Measure operational and financial impact across productivity, capacity, quality, throughput, service improvement, user experience, and control effectiveness
- Build reusable methods, playbooks, and organizational capability for clinical innovation
- Collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and relevant experience required
- Advanced degree in a clinical, scientific, business, technology, engineering, or related discipline preferred
- 15+ years of progressive industry experience
- 10+ years leading clinical innovation strategy for organizations
- Hands-on operational experience within a clinical development organization
- Strong knowledge of clinical delivery workflows, roles, controls, quality, and compliance expectations
- Experience designing and implementing automation and AI innovations in clinical development
- Experience leading structured experiments, pilots, PoCs, or PoVs
- Experience developing business requirements, business cases, implementation plans, change and adoption approaches, and benefits-realization frameworks
- Working knowledge of AI, intelligent automation, workflow technologies, data-driven decision support, and responsible-AI principles
- Ability to lead across complex global, matrixed stakeholder groups
- Strong business acumen, analytical judgment, facilitation, stakeholder management, written communication, and change-leadership skills
- Proficiency in English
- Must be based in the United States
Benefits:
- Competitive benefits package depending on location
- Transparent compensation and pay equity
- Remote work arrangement
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