P5P5 — Expert Professional
Strategic Leader
Provides strategic leadership across studies or a therapeutic area and drives process improvements.
What this level means
Expert in field; key problem solver and project leader, authority in multiple areas
- Scope
- Multiple systems or a technical domain
- Autonomy
- Sets direction within the domain
- Complexity
- Novel, high-ambiguity problems; establishes the approach
- Impact
- Org / multi-team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Authority over a technical domain
- Leadership
- Leads cross-team technical initiatives
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Designs innovative clinical protocols
- Aligns clinical strategy with R&D goals
- Mentors project managers
- Drives process improvements
- Ensures strategic alignment with business goals
- Design clinical protocols
- Align strategy with R&D goals
- Mentor project managers
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic leadership
- Innovation
- Risk management
- Business acumen
- Process improvement
- Clinical strategy development
- Innovation in clinical trials
- Risk management
- Business strategy alignment
- Process improvement methodologies
- Vision and innovation mindset
- Risk Management
- Business acumen
- Strategic alignment
- Process improvement
What good looks like
- Advanced degree with 10+ years total experience
- Professional certifications and completed leadership/finance programs
Common titles
Clinical Research VClinical Research 5Staff Clinical ResearchLead Clinical ResearchExpert Clinical ResearchStrategic Leader
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 19-0000 — Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.