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Director Science & Technology - Scientific Office DS(m/w/x)

Basel, Schaftenau
from 85,704.64 / year
Full-timeOn-siteManagement
Data Science

Guiding candidate selection and development for new pharmaceuticals. Extensive cross-disciplinary experience across the full development spectrum required. Early scientific and technical input to reduce risk and delays.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree (PhD preferred) in biochemistry, chemistry, bioengineering, or pharmaceutical sciences
  • Extensive experience (15 years desirable) across full development spectrum
  • Cross-disciplinary breadth with deep expertise in at least one area
  • Strong internal and external network
  • Ability to influence across complex matrix
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Facilitation skills
  • Stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to coach and mentor across levels and functions
  • Sound judgment
  • Strong sense of urgency for critical risks
  • Ability to escalate appropriately
  • Ability to drive balanced mitigations
  • Experience with biologics, cell and gene therapies (CGT), or complex modalities
  • Ability to translate innovation into practical development choices
  • Demonstrated ability to drive execution through others
  • Comfort working across multiple projects and competing priorities
  • Consultative mindset
  • Focus on scientific rigor and quality

Tasks

  • Provide early scientific and technical input
  • Offer leadership and guidance on candidate selection
  • Raise safety, efficacy, and developability concerns
  • Ensure research decisions account for development needs
  • Reduce risk and delays before hand-over
  • Enable portfolio oversight and knowledge flow
  • Connect learnings across projects
  • Identify platform-level issues
  • Facilitate scientific exchange across projects and functions
  • Apply structured scientific thinking to technical questions
  • Define options and trade-offs
  • Provide clear recommendations for timely conclusions
  • Strengthen governance and decision-making at development gates
  • Apply scientific rigor and enterprise thinking
  • Influence stakeholders to align scientific strategy
  • Enable execution of agreed scientific strategy
  • Coach and mentor teams and individuals
  • Share experience and best practices
  • Build scientific capability within teams
  • Embed consultative and collaborative working
  • Enable innovation for novel modalities
  • Initiate early scientific exchange for new modalities
  • Benchmark external advances
  • Translate insights into actionable guidance
  • Assess and escalate critical risks
  • Communicate risks with urgency
  • Propose risk mitigations
  • Drive alignment on risk management
  • Uphold scientific rigor and balanced judgment
  • Influence outcomes and support implementation
  • Partner with SMEs to capture prior knowledge
  • Create referenceable documents for risk assessments
  • Improve quality of regulatory submissions
  • Ensure new formats or platforms are established timely
  • Prepare technologies for transfer and scaling

Work Experience

  • approx. 4 - 6 years

Education

  • Doctoral / PhD

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
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