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Senior Director, Clinical Trial Patient Safety Lead

Redwood City, CAOnsiteFull TimeDirector$238,400–$315,600 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • clinical trial patient safety
  • pharmacovigilance
  • clinical safety data
  • ICSR operations
  • CRO oversight
  • data reconciliation
  • data cleaning
  • clinical development processes
  • EDC
  • safety databases

Nice to have

  • MD
  • PharmD
  • advanced clinical/scientific degree
  • Safety Sciences
  • Postmarketing Safety Operations
  • Safety Systems

Role summary

Corcept is seeking a Senior Director, Clinical Trial Patient Safety Lead to provide strategic and operational leadership for clinical trial patient safety across its global development portfolio. This role involves establishing and scaling an integrated operating model for study safety operations, CRO oversight, safety data quality, ICSR quality, data reconciliation, query management, data cleaning, and clinical safety data readiness. The Senior Director will be a key member of the PSPV Leadership Team, collaborating with internal departments and external CROs. Responsibilities include leading the Clinical Trial Patient Safety organization, developing functions, overseeing vendor governance, ensuring data quality, and building organizational capabilities. An advanced degree in a related discipline is required, with an MD or PharmD preferred, along with 14+ years of experience in clinical safety, pharmacovigilance, or related fields.

For more than 25 years, Corcept has been singularly focused on the science of cortisol, a powerful hormone that when unregulated, can play a role in a broad range of diseases.

Our commercial portfolio includes treatments for hypercortisolism and oncology, and the company has discovered more than 1,000 proprietary selective cortisol modulators and glucocorticoid receptor antagonists. With advanced clinical trials in patients with hypercortisolism, solid tumors, ALS and liver disease, Corcept is unlocking the power of cortisol modulation to help address some of the most devastating diseases patients face today.

Corcept is headquartered in Redwood City, California. To learn more, visit www.corcept.com.

As Corcept's clinical development portfolio and international presence continue to expand, the Patient Safety & Pharmacovigilance (PSPV) organization is expanding its capabilities to support the company's growing pipeline of innovative medicines. We are seeking a talented and experienced leader to serve as Senior Director, Clinical Trial Patient Safety Lead and provide strategic and operational leadership for clinical trial patient safety across the development portfolio.

The function includes two complementary areas: Study Management and Safety Data Review.

The Senior Director will establish and scale an integrated operating model spanning study safety operations, CRO oversight, safety-data quality, ICSR quality oversight, data reconciliation, query management, data cleaning, and clinical safety data readiness.

As a member of the PSPV Leadership Team, this leader will work closely across PSPV (Medical Safety, Safety Sciences, Postmarketing Safety Operations, Safety Systems, Business Operations, QPPVs, and Epidemiology), as well as Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Biometrics, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and external CROs.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the Clinical Trial Patient Safety organization across Corcept's global clinical development portfolio
  • Establish a scalable operating model for clinical trial safety operations from study start-up through close-out
  • Lead and develop the Study Management and Safety Data Review functions
  • Establish effective CRO and vendor governance for delegated clinical safety activities
  • Oversee clinical safety data-review strategy, reconciliation, data cleaning, and safety-data quality
  • Establish a robust internal quality-oversight model for outsourced ICSR processing
  • Ensure appropriate risk-based QC, including end-of-line, sample, targeted, and in-line review
  • Partner closely with Biometrics to ensure integrated EDC and safety-database data quality
  • Establish operational readiness for database locks, clinical development milestones, and regulatory submissions
  • Lead development and maintenance of functional SOPs, procedures, and other operational standards
  • Partner with Safety Systems to advance clinical safety technology and data capabilities
  • Partner with PV Compliance, Business Operations, and Quality on the implementation of standards, training, audits, inspections, and operational readiness
  • Build organizational capabilities and develop high-performing leaders and teams
  • Contribute to PSPV strategy as a member of the PSPV Leadership Team

    • Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Technical Proficiencies:

  • Advanced degree in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, or related discipline is required; an MD, PharmD, or equivalent advanced clinical/scientific degree is preferred
  • 14+ years of experience in clinical safety, pharmacovigilance, clinical operations, or related pharmaceutical/biotechnology functions
  • Significant experience leading clinical trial safety operations across global clinical development programs
  • Strong understanding of clinical safety data, ICSR operations, CRO oversight, and clinical development processes
  • Experience with EDC, safety databases, reconciliation, data review, and data cleaning
  • Demonstrated experience leading global or geographically distributed teams and managing CROs and external vendors
  • Strong leadership, organizational-building, and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Ability to build scalable capabilities and lead effectively through portfolio growth and increasing organizational complexity

    • The pay range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this headquarters-based position is $238,400 – $315,600; the pay ultimately offered may vary based on legitimate considerations, including geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

    Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

    For information on how Corcept collects, uses, discloses, protects, and otherwise processes personal information and an explanation of the rights and choices available to you with respect to your personal information, please refer to our Privacy Notice link.

    Corcept appreciates the commitment and hard work of all our team members as we strive to discover and develop novel treatments for patients with serious unmet medical needs.

    Please visit our website at: https://www.corcept.com/

    Corcept is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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