Vice President Medical & Scientific Strategy - Immunology

Novotech Global•South San Francisco, CA

1d•$340,000 - $380,000

About The Position

The Vice President Medical & Scientific Strategy is Novotech’s marquee medical and scientific expert, bringing deep therapeutic-area expertise, medicines-development experience, and scientific thought leadership. The role partners with business development, clinical operations, medical services, regulatory, and drug-development consulting teams to design scientifically sound, operationally feasible, integrated, and commercially aligned clinical programs. The position builds trusted-advisor relationships with sponsor clients and peer-to-peer relationships with sponsor CMOs, external key opinion leaders (KOLs), principal investigators (PIs), and clinical sites. It represents Novotech’s medical and scientific expertise through client and external stakeholder interactions, publications, speaking engagements, and industry events. The role also supports business growth through proposals, bid defenses, early study concepts, and development of clinical strategy across development stages.

Requirements

Medical Doctor (MD) or equivalent medical degree in the United States.
Typically 15 or more years of experience in an industry medical role at a pharmaceutical company, biotechnology company, or CRO.
Significant industry experience in medicines development, ideally including leadership of both early- and late-phase clinical programs or advanced therapeutic-strategy roles within a sponsor, academic center, or CRO.
Demonstrated scientific credibility with KOLs, investigators, and clinical sites in the specified therapy area.
Experience contributing to commercial-facing bids and study design, with the ability to balance scientific rigor with operational and commercial constraints.
Excellent communication skills, a collaborative approach, learning agility, and comfort with ambiguity.
For senior positions, significant experience in regulatory interactions as a medical lead across early-to-late-stage development, including a significant number of NDA and BLA submissions.

Responsibilities

Provide therapeutic and scientific leadership for protocol design and scientific advisory interactions, aligned with global standards of care and late-stage development trends.
Serve as the primary therapeutic and development expert for client-facing proposals, bid defenses, and early study concept development; provide therapeutic rationale, risk-mitigation strategies, and competitive landscape insight.
Build and maintain relationships with clients, KOLs, principal investigators, and high-performing clinical sites.
Support investigator identification and site-selection strategies as needed to optimize enrollment and data quality.
Define project medical strategy and scope, contribute to operational planning, and critically review RFPs, proposed project outlines, and available resources.
Advise cross-functional teams on regulatory strategy, endpoint selection, safety monitoring, and comparator standards to meet payer and label expectations.
Mentor and upskill colleagues in therapeutic-area science and clinical-development best practices, and contribute to scientific thought leadership and CRO capability building.
Maintain current expertise through self-learning on the therapy area, investigational products, and standards of care.
Review scientific literature, commercial databases, and internal tools to support clinical strategy for new opportunities.
Seek new business prospects, including existing and new clients, investigational-site referrals, and vendors.
Meet with potential clients to provide clinical, therapeutic, and drug-development expertise; understand their priorities and corporate strategies and develop appropriate study and pipeline designs.
Liaise with clients, CROs, vendors, investigators, and study-site staff to develop therapeutic strategies aligned with client objectives and operational success for RFP responses.
Represent Novotech at external events, including bid-defense meetings, KOL visits, site and vendor meetings, professional-association events, and scientific conferences.
Review and revise therapeutic and clinical strategy sections of proposals and executive summaries to ensure they address client and RFP requirements and clearly describe the proposed delivery strategy.
Collaborate with business development, sales operations, functional teams, and CRO vendors to develop bid-defense strategies and materials; attend and present at bid-defense meetings with relevant teams.
Act as a strategic partner to sponsors and internal stakeholders throughout clinical development, helping navigate evolving evidence, emerging risks, and development decisions.
Serve as the primary clinical-development expert and provide leadership across development stages.