Clinical Innovation Executive Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Establish the clinical innovation vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for the enterprise, focusing on automation, AI, analytics, and workflow transformation.

• Create and prioritize an innovation portfolio that aligns with strategic, operational, financial, and customer goals.

• Lead structured experimentation initiatives through Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and Proofs of Value (PoVs), setting objectives, success metrics, risks, decision criteria, and recommendations.

• Convert clinical and operational needs into requirements for solutions, workflows, data, integration, controls, and support in collaboration with IT and the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO).

• Develop business cases, ROI models, implementation plans, and frameworks for value realization.

• Ensure operational readiness and adoption, which includes ownership, training, communication, human oversight, exception handling, feedback, and transitioning to standard business operations.

• Establish governance for responsible AI, automation, and clinical innovation, working with Quality, Compliance, Legal, Information Security, Privacy, and Regulatory stakeholders.

• Assess operational and financial impacts across productivity, capacity, quality, throughput, service improvement, user experience, and control effectiveness.

• Create reusable methods, playbooks, and enhance organizational capabilities for clinical innovation.

• Collaborate with global teams across various time zones.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and relevant experience is required.

• An advanced degree in a clinical, scientific, business, technology, engineering, or related field is preferred.

• Over 15 years of progressive industry experience.

• More than 10 years of experience in leading clinical innovation strategy within organizations.

• Practical operational experience in a clinical development setting.

• In-depth knowledge of clinical delivery workflows, roles, controls, quality, and compliance expectations.

• Proven experience in designing and implementing automation and AI innovations in clinical development.

• Background in leading structured experiments, pilots, PoCs, or PoVs.

• Experience in developing business requirements, business cases, implementation plans, change and adoption strategies, and benefits-realization frameworks.

• Familiarity with AI, intelligent automation, workflow technologies, data-driven decision support, and principles of responsible AI.

• Capability to lead across complex global, matrixed stakeholder groups.

• Strong business acumen, analytical judgment, facilitation, stakeholder management, written communication, and change leadership skills.

• Proficient in English.

• Must reside in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package based on location.

• Transparent compensation structure and pay equity.

• Opportunity for remote work arrangement.