Head of Clinical Operations

What if you could join a company rapidly advancing its first candidate molecule to clinic and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way?

What if you could be the first hire in Clinical Operations with the opportunity to create strategy and build your team as we expand our clinical pipeline?

What this position is all about: As a Head of Clinical Operations (Senior Director or VP; level commensurate with experience), you will play a pivotal role in defining the overall operational strategy and drive the advancement of our portfolio of clinical programs. You will report to the SVP, Translational Medicine and work closely with cross-functional teams, external CROs, and thought leaders to ensure the successful execution of clinical trials. You will have the unique opportunity to operate in a highly visible capacity to develop the clinical operations function. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the success of our clinical trials and advancing our mission.

What you would be responsible for:

• Lead clinical operational strategy for assets across multiple therapeutic areas in compliance with global regulations and requirements.
• All operational aspects of Cellarity’s clinical trials from study concept through CSR, and regulatory submissions, in support of license applications.
• Drive the design and execution of clinical development plans, including protocol development, site selection, and investigator meetings.
• Oversee the selection, contract negotiation, and management of relationships with clinical research organizations (CROs) and other third-party vendors.
• Identify innovative opportunities in study start up and implement best practices.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to coordinate study objectives/protocols, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Partner with regulatory peers to support timely and quality regulatory submissions.
• Develop and manage the clinical operations budget, ensuring optimal allocation of resources to meet project timelines and milestones.
• Collaborate with KOLs on feedback on development plans and clinical study protocols.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation plans to proactively address any issues that may impact quality and/or trial timelines.
• Represent Cellarity at conferences, investigator meetings, regulatory engagements.
• Present regularly to Cellarity executive team and Board of Directors.
  
  

What experiences will you need:

• Advanced degree in life sciences or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience in clinical operations with specific experience supporting early-stage programs.
• Solid understanding of US and global regulations and guidelines with additional global experience preferred.
• Experience and skillset selecting and managing CROs, vendors and/or clinical trial consultants
• Experience with alliance management
• Ability to interpret and integrate scientific and clinical data
• Demonstrated prior success in delivering clinical trial milestones on time and on budget
• In-depth knowledge of global clinical trial regulations and guidelines.
• Strong strategic thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication and people skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships.
• Remote/hybrid role possible; Local highly preferred. Ability to be on site in Somerville, MA for critical meetings and for developing relationships is important.
  
  

What sets you apart:

• Hematology/rare disease/sickle cell disease experience
• Ability to Integrate into teams and influence clinical study design and operations
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail, creativity, persistence, and the ability to influence
  
  

What it’s like to work at Cellarity

At Cellarity, we

• Push Boundaries: We create a legacy with breakthrough science in service of patients.
• Inject Energy: We build strengths from different perspectives and tell it like it is.
• Own it: We transcend our job descriptions and relentlessly follow through on our commitments.
• Go all out: We work quickly and with conviction.
  
  

Company Summary: Cellarity’s mission is to fundamentally redesign the way drugs are created for the sake of bringing new hope to patients. By shifting the focus from a single target to the underlying cellular dysfunction, we unravel the complexity of disease biology and create medicines that were never before possible. The company has developed unique capabilities that link biology and chemistry with high dimensional -omics data from which we design medicines against the cellular signature of disease. The Cellarity platform allows us to uncover new biology in diseases even in the absence of known causal targets. The company has drug discovery programs underway in several disease areas, including metabolic disease, hematology, and immunology. Cellarity has raised a total of $274M from all funding rounds to date, with contributions from world-renowned investors alongside Flagship Pioneering who created the company. Cellarity’s goal is to grow into a fully integrated, clinical phase, next generation Biotech company driving a new age in drug creation.

Cellarity is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.