P7P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional
Director
Leads the CTA sub-function, often across the entire organization or a major business unit.
What this level means
Staff-level individual contributor: owns architecture across systems, sets technical direction, and multiplies the output of multiple teams without managing people.
- Scope
- Cross-organization / enterprise technical strategy
- Autonomy
- Operates autonomously at the enterprise level
- Complexity
- Industry-level, highly ambiguous problems
- Impact
- Enterprise-wide
- Decision rights
- Final technical authority across multiple domains
- Leadership
- Sets technical direction org-wide; develops principals
- Typical experience
- 15–22 yrs
What you'd do
- Setting long-term direction for trial administration
- Managing senior managers
- Defining KPI frameworks for trial delivery
- Representing the company in industry forums
- Set long-term direction
- Manage senior managers
- Define KPI frameworks
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Vision setting
- Managerial leadership
- KPI development
- Industry representation
- Strategic thinking
- Change leadership
- Business acumen
- Executive communication
- Vision and strategy
- Change leadership
- Business acumen
- Executive communication
- KPI frameworks
- Industry representation
- Managerial leadership
- Strategic planning
- Vision & Strategy
- Change Leadership
- Business acumen
- Executive communication
What good looks like
- Advanced degree
- 15+ years including senior managerial roles
- Leadership development (e.g. MBA, executive courses) preferred
Common titles
Staff Clinical Trials AdministrationDistinguished Clinical Trials AdministrationStaff Clinical Trials AdministratorDistinguished Clinical Trials Administrator
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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