M5M5 — Senior Director
Director, Clinical Trials/Clinical Operations
Heads a Clinical Operations department or a major subdivision. Accountable for overall delivery of all trials in their remit.
What this level means
Leads multiple functions or a large department; drives multi-year strategy.
- Scope
- Multiple functions or a large department
- Autonomy
- Owns multi-year strategy for the area
- Complexity
- Org-level trade-offs and investment
- Impact
- Multi-function results
- Decision rights
- Owns investment and org design across functions
- Leadership
- Leads directors and managers
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Define operational strategy to support clinical development plan
- Provide leadership to program teams
- Present trial status/metrics to executive committees
- Develop operational strategies
- Lead program teams
- Report to executive committees
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic leadership
- Innovation management
- Executive communication
- Operational strategy development
- Team empowerment
- Advanced decision-making
- Global oversight
- Financial acumen
- Strategic leadership in clinical operations
- Innovation in clinical trials
- Executive-level communication
- Global clinical operations management
- Financial strategy in trials
- Regulatory strategy
- Organizational leadership
- Advanced clinical trial design
- High-level decision-making
- Innovation
What good looks like
- Experience in leading clinical operations
- MBA or equivalent
- Proven track record in strategic leadership
Common titles
Director, Clinical Trials/Clinical Operations
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.