Clinical Development Scientist Ophthalmology

Job description

  Job facts

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Clinical Development Scientist to use your clinical expertise to drive the development of Roche's innovative new therapies in ophthalmology.

Your contributions will be important, innovative and high profile with a global focus as you take various responsibilities for all aspects of international clinical studies in a substantial phase 3 program.

This position offers a wide-range of responsibilities as you assist the team in the overall management, planning, evaluation and documentation of projects and studies.

Based in Welwyn Garden City, you will be a member of the global science team for ophthalmology.

Working in a close-knit, friendly, global, professional team, you will need to be effective in an environment in which some team members are located in different geographic locations and on different time-zones so your ability for successfully working with remote teams would be crucial. Your challenges will include developing and writing clinical protocols and amendments, ensuring that they are medically and scientifically sound and meet all the relevant standards including good clinical practice, clinical operating guidelines, standard operating procedures and interaction with both internal and external stakeholders.

Your role will be to provide scientific leadership for ongoing ophthalmology related studies. You will monitor and review incoming data and ensure that the SOPs for evaluating, documenting and reporting adverse events are strictly followed. Drawing on your experience within the industry you will provide innovative solutions to new and ongoing challenges. Preparing annual reports and safety updates, you will ensure that data has been correctly interpreted for interim and final study reports and regulatory filing activities.

Successful candidates for this position will have a post graduate degree (PhD, PharmD, Pharm, MS or equivalent). Experience in global clinical drug development is essential. You should be able to develop knowledge and expertise in
ophthalmology as needed within short time frames.

We wish you well with your application!

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
Research & Development, Research & Development > Clinical Operations

·  Who we are

Our UK Pharmaceutical head office is situated in Welwyn garden City, Hertfordshire, with beautiful country side surrounding the area. Supported by major motorways & airports as well as being a 30 minute train ride to London, access is easy. With over 1400 people occupying our site in Welwyn, you can expect opportunities in Early Development (pRED), Product Development (PD), Commercial (Rx) and of course our corporate function.

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