M6M6 — Vice President
Senior Director/Head of Clinical Trials Operations
Enterprise-level oversight of clinical trial operations. Sets the vision and manages other directors and senior staff.
What this level means
Owns a major function or division; accountable for organization-wide outcomes.
- Scope
- A major function or division
- Autonomy
- Accountable for division strategy and outcomes
- Complexity
- Enterprise priorities and external factors
- Impact
- Division-wide / organization-wide
- Decision rights
- Owns strategy, budget, and org for a division
- Leadership
- Leads the leadership of a division
- Typical experience
- 15–25 yrs
What you'd do
- Set goals for reducing development cycle time
- Manage directors across multiple geographies
- Lead large-scale initiatives
- Set strategic goals
- Manage global directors
- Lead enterprise initiatives
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Visionary leadership
- Global management
- Large-scale initiative leadership
- Strategic goal setting
- Cross-cultural communication
- Advanced negotiation
- Organizational transformation
- Innovation in operations
- Global clinical operations strategy
- Visionary leadership in trials
- Cross-cultural management
- Organizational transformation strategies
- Advanced negotiation techniques
- Innovation in clinical operations
- Regulatory frameworks
- Enterprise-level management
- Strategic Vision
- Global oversight
What good looks like
- Extensive experience in clinical trial operations
- Experience in global trial management
- Proven success in enterprise leadership
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
O*NET / SOC: 19-0000 — Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupations (inferred)