# Senior Director, Early Development Leader

**Company**: ViiV Healthcare
**Location**: North Carolina - Durham
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $242,550 to $404,250
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ViiV Healthcare is seeking a Senior Director, Early Development Leader to lead a global multidisciplinary development team within R&D to deliver on all aspects of early drug development.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading key activities to progress their career, including:

- Leading the multi-functional global Early Development Team (EDT) responsible for delivery of an asset to Phase 2b

- Proactively directing medicine development strategy and plans for products from Candidate Selection through Proof of Concept/Commit to Medicine Development

- Contributing to the development of the regional and global strategy for products

- Interfacing with Senior Management, internal key stakeholders, and external stakeholders to articulate and drive the Medicine Development Strategy

- Managing prioritization of asset's development options to effectively manage the budget

- Utilizing organizational channels, experience, and influencing skills to facilitate successful project progression and effective issue resolution

The ideal candidate will have:

- MSc and 10+ years of drug development experience

- Experience in establishing and executing a drug development strategy

- Experience in presenting scientific data to internal key stakeholders and external audiences

Preferred qualifications include:

- Physician (MD or DO), PhD, or PharmD with clinical fellowship or research experience in Infectious Diseases

- 10+ years of drug development experience, including deep expertise in Oral Drug Development

- Effective communication skills

- Good interpersonal relationship building/maintenance

- Expertise in early development experience (Phase 1 to Phase 2a)

- Experience in HIV drug development

- Excellent leadership experience in a matrix environment

- Understanding of pharmaceutical job development

In terms of compensation, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $242,550 to $404,250.

The benefits package includes health care and other insurance benefits, retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Analytical Thinking
- Change Management
- Clinical Research
- Clinical Trial Designs
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Fostering Collaboration
- Influencing Without Authority
- Leadership
- Matrix Leadership
- People Management
- Risk Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Strategy Development
- Teamwork

### Nice to have
- Physician (MD or DO)
- PhD
- PharmD
- Infectious Diseases
- Oral Drug Development
- HIV drug development

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