[Remote] Director, Clinical Development Job Details | Bausch+Lomb Companies Inc.

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

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