Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bausch + Lomb is a leading global eye health company dedicated to enhancing sight for millions of people worldwide. They are seeking a Director of Clinical Development to provide strategic leadership for pharmaceutical and consumer development programs, ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements while driving program strategy and execution.
Responsibilities
- Serve as Clinical Lead on Core Teams for assigned development programs, providing strategic clinical leadership and driving program-level decisions that impact overall development success
- Develop and drive program-level clinical development strategy aligned with target product profiles, business objectives, and regulatory pathways across global markets
- Hold accountability for the scientific integrity, sufficiency, and quality of clinical development deliverables to meet global regulatory submission requirements
- Own key clinical development deliverables, including protocol design, data interpretation, and risk mitigation strategies, while escalating critical matters to senior leadership as appropriate
- Lead Clinical Evidence subteams to orchestrate strategy development and execution with cross-functional partners
- Design and oversee clinical studies ensuring scientific rigor, regulatory compliance, and alignment with program strategy
- Provide scientific oversight throughout study conduct, including ongoing medical/scientific data review, adjudication of major protocol deviations, and safety signal evaluation
- When serving in Clinical Scientist capacity: author study protocols, informed consent forms, clinical study reports, and other study-level documents. Provide protocol training and scientific guidance to study teams
- Represent Clinical Development in governance forums, presenting program updates, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership
- Ensure all clinical activities comply with GCP, ICH guidelines, company SOPs, and applicable regulatory requirements
- Provide clinical/scientific input into disease area strategies and portfolio prioritization decisions
- Support business development activities through technical evaluation of potential in-licensing and partnership opportunities
- Contribute to the development and optimization of Clinical Development processes, SOPs, and infrastructure to enhance efficiency and quality
- Provide scientific guidance to more junior clinical development team members
Skills
- Advanced degree in life sciences/healthcare in a clinically relevant area required; MD, PharmD, or PhD strongly preferred
- Minimum 5-8 years of pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry and/or clinical experience with demonstrated impact in leading clinical development activities strongly preferred
- Deep understanding of GCP, ICH guidelines, global regulatory requirements, and clinical development processes
- Expertise in clinical study design and working understanding of statistical methodology and data interpretation for controlled clinical trials
- Strong scientific writing skills with experience authoring regulatory documents, protocols, and clinical study reports
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with ability to influence diverse stakeholders including senior leadership, regulatory authorities, and external experts
- Strong partnership mindset with track record of building productive relationships across R&D functions and the broader organization
- Self-motivated with ability to manage multiple priorities and drive execution with minimal supervision
- Commitment to scientific excellence, patient outcomes, and advancing eye health innovation
- Experience in eye health/ophthalmology product development (e.g., small molecule, biologic, combination product) across a variety of ophthalmic disease states is highly preferred
- Familiarity with consumer health/OTC product development considered a plus
- Track record of successful clinical program advancement and through regulatory milestones across multiple geographic regions is preferred
- Proven experience as Clinical Lead on development programs or demonstrated readiness to assume this strategic leadership role
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Eye Health, Disability and Life Insurance begins on your hire date
- 401K Plan with company match and ongoing company contribution
- Paid time off – vacation (3 weeks - prorated upon hire), floating holidays and sick time
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with company match
- Employee Incentive Bonus
- Tuition Reimbursement (select degrees)
- Ongoing performance feedback and annual compensation review
- U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/or long-term incentives
- They may also be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, disability and life insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, a tuition reimbursement program (select degrees), company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others
- U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive sick time, floating holidays and paid vacation
Company Overview
We're a leading global eye health organization that is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world – from the moment of birth through every phase of life. It was founded in 1853, and is headquartered in Rochester, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.bausch.com.