P6P6 — Principal Professional
Executive
Sets organizational vision for clinical R&D and oversees clinical governance, compliance, and audit preparedness across all trials.
What this level means
Top individual contributor; recognized authority with strategic impact, equivalent to a low executive level
- Scope
- Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
- Autonomy
- Defines direction; minimal oversight
- Complexity
- Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
- Impact
- Organization-wide
- Decision rights
- Sets technical strategy for a major area
- Leadership
- Recognized authority; multiplies many teams
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Defines long-term clinical development strategies
- Serves as senior liaison with regulatory authorities
- Shapes company-wide policies
- Oversees clinical governance and compliance
- Ensures audit preparedness
- Define clinical strategies
- Liaise with regulatory authorities
- Shape company policies
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Executive leadership
- Strategic networking
- Crisis management
- Governance
- Audit preparedness
- Clinical governance
- Regulatory compliance
- Audit processes
- Strategic networking
- Crisis management strategies
- Executive Leadership
- Strategic networking
- Crisis Management
- Governance and compliance
- Audit preparedness
What good looks like
- Highest relevant degree with 15+ years including senior leadership in R&D
- Executive education or MBA
Common titles
Clinical Research VIClinical Research 6Principal Clinical Research
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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