M4M4 — Director
Director, Clinical Trials Operations
Provides strategic and high-level operational leadership for the clinical development portfolio, ensuring efficient execution according to the overall development strategy.
What this level means
Leads a function or department; owns strategy, budget, and outcomes for the area.
- Scope
- A function or department
- Autonomy
- Owns area strategy and budget
- Complexity
- Strategic priorities and cross-functional alignment
- Impact
- Function-level results
- Decision rights
- Owns strategy, budget, and org design for the area
- Leadership
- Leads managers; sets direction for the function
- Typical experience
- 10–15 yrs
What you'd do
- Lead and manage integration of all study team activities
- Oversee all aspects of CRO/vendor identification and selection
- Guide site selection and regulatory submissions
- Develop clinical study budgets and forecasts
- Collaborate with Regulatory and Quality teams
- Mentor and develop Managers and their teams
- Integrate study team activities
- Guide site selection
- Develop budgets
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Leadership
- Strategic planning
- Decision-making
- Stakeholder management
- Budget forecasting
- Regulatory collaboration
- Mentorship
- Vendor selection
- Clinical development strategy
- Vendor selection and management
- Regulatory submission processes
- Budget development
- Team integration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Mentorship and team development
- High-level decision-making
- Visionary leadership
- Strategic planning
- High-level decision-making
- Stakeholder management
What good looks like
- Advanced degree preferred
- ~8–12 years in clinical operations
- Experience managing multi-phase global trials and large teams
Common titles
Director, Clinical Trials OperationsClinical Trials Operations Director
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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