Director, Scientific Engagement

Crown Bioscience

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About The Position

Crown Bioscience is conducting a search for a highly experienced oncology preclinical discovery expert to become part of its scientific engagement team, working directly with clients to enhance their discovery efforts through research outsourcing. This role will expose the incumbent to the entire spectrum of the oncology preclinical discovery effort, including the full diversity of related models and technologies. Deep and broad knowledge of current oncology, immuno-oncology discovery and translational paradigms is essential to success in this role, as is knowledge of the molecular and cellular approaches and targets in oncology drug and biomarker discovery. This is a fully remote position; candidates based on the East Coast are preferred.

Requirements

• PhD degree in life science related major
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in laboratory or pharmaceutical industry in areas specifically relevant to Company services; must include a minimum of 5 years’ working within the pharmaceutical or biotech industries in order to assure familiarity with customer needs/experience
• Broad experience and hands-on drug development expertise including study/project design, monitoring, issue management and overall consultancy

Nice To Haves

• Desired experience in translational biomarkers
• Desired experience in Pharmacokinetic, Toxicology and IND filing
• A solid publications and/or achievement track record that evidence depth of knowledge will be important.

Responsibilities

• Direct scientific engagement with pharmaceutical company scientists, clients and decision makers with the goal of providing high level scientific input in study design and model execution to determine how, and when their discovery and translational programs would benefit from CrownBio’s preclinical oncology services.
• Support the Companies Business Development (BD) goals to secure orders and deepen account penetration through increasing the quality and quantity of meetings with client scientist; ensure the best possible exchange of information for new opportunities between BD and the scientific team; generate protocols, study designs and proposals to define projects/studies and associated prices.
• Co-travel with BD (~50% of the time) to various clients and potential clients to support scientific discussion of Companies services and capabilities.
• Represent CrownBio at relevant scientific and industry conferences, including preparation of oral presentations and/or poster presentations.
• Work closely with internal R&D in order to gain insight of new developments and contribute to R&D strategy.
• Support the continued development of company based scientific marketing collateral and web materials.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees