Senior Director, Drug Development Services

ICON plc • Blue Bell, SD

1d • Remote

About The Position

Provide therapeutic, scientific and clinical-development leadership for ICON’s Women’s Health & Reproductive Medicine initiative under Elevate. Translate disease-area expertise and emerging scientific insight into differentiated development strategies, strengthen ICON’s sponsor-facing proposition, and ensure opportunities are scientifically credible, patient-centred, operationally feasible and commercially relevant. The role supports an integrated Women’s Health platform spanning scientific leadership, regulatory strategy, commercial intelligence and delivery excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define and refine priority indications and scientific areas of focus based on unmet need, emerging science, sponsor pipelines, competitive activity and ICON capabilities.
• Provide expert input into clinical development plans, protocols and trial design, including patient populations, endpoints, biomarkers, patient-reported outcomes, digital measures, reproductive considerations and clinically meaningful outcomes.
• Partner with Global Regulatory Affairs to interpret evolving regulatory expectations and develop differentiated strategies for areas where Women’s Health development pathways are insufficiently defined.
• Provide senior therapeutic input to strategic RFPs, proposals, sponsor solution meetings and bid defences, translating scientific knowledge into compelling and executable clinical-development strategies.
• Provide therapeutic oversight of feasibility assumptions, patient pathways, recruitment challenges and specialist site strategies, including relevant gynaecology, IVF/ART and maternal-fetal medicine referral networks.
• Incorporate patient needs and Women’s Health-specific considerations into protocol design, participation models, recruitment, retention and endpoint strategies.
• Build and maintain indication-specific scientific content, evidence, case studies and proof points to demonstrate ICON’s Women’s Health expertise and support sponsor engagement.
• Monitor emerging mechanisms, assets, sponsors, competitors and scientific inflection points to identify future opportunities and inform ICON investment priorities.
• Strengthen ICON’s external scientific profile through KOL and investigator engagement, advisory boards, congresses, publications, webinars and relationships with academic, biotech and Women’s Health innovation networks.
• Identify and connect relevant internal expertise across ICON to create an accessible SME network supporting sponsor and study needs.
• Partner with Business Development and account teams to identify high-value sponsors and assets, support early scientific engagement and develop sponsor-specific therapeutic value propositions.
• Represent the therapeutic perspective within Elevate governance, identify capability gaps and assess scientific readiness of priority indications and propositions before external activation.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance-related incentives
• Medical, dental and vision coverage where applicable
• Retirement and pension plans
• Life assurance and disability coverage
• Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
• Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed