全球临床研究高级总监 - ITP

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Your Role at Baxter:
The Senior Director, Clinical Research - Infusion Therapies & Technologies serves as the scientific leader responsible for transforming medical, clinical, and business priorities into executable evidence-generation strategies across Baxter's ITP portfolio, including pharmaceuticals, nutrition therapies, infusion systems, pharmacy technologies, and medication delivery solutions.
Working in close partnership with Medical Affairs, the Senior Director translates unmet medical needs and strategic evidence priorities into scientifically rigorous research programs capable of generating meaningful clinical, economic, and operational evidence to support innovation, product development, regulatory submissions, post-market evidence generation, clinical practice adoption, and value-based healthcare initiatives. The role provides leadership in study methodology, evidence strategy, research governance, scientific interpretation, and cross-functional execution.
The Senior Director works with Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations, ensuring that research programs are scientifically sound, operationally feasible, aligned with regulatory expectations, and capable of generating evidence that advances patient care and business objectives.
What you'll be doing:
Clinical Research Strategy & Evidence Planning

• Partner with Medical Affairs to convert medical evidence priorities into integrated clinical research strategies.

• Design evidence-generation programs that address unmet clinical, scientific, healthcare system, and customer needs.

• Develop fit-for-purpose study designs.

• Establish research plans that generate evidence relevant to clinicians, regulators, payers, providers, and healthcare systems.

Scientific Leadership

• Serve as the organization's leading expert in clinical research methodology and scientific study design.

• Ensure appropriate application of epidemiology, biostatistics, implementation science, health-services research, and clinical study methodologies.

• Provide scientific oversight for protocols, statistical plans, clinical study reports, and evidence interpretation.

• Ensure scientific rigor across all clinical research activities.

Clinical Operations Leadership

• Lead the Clinical Operations team and partner with them to optimize feasibility, execution quality, enrollment strategies, and study delivery.

• Ensure study designs appropriately balance scientific rigor, operational feasibility, project timelines, and resource requirements.

• Participate in governance and risk mitigation activities for ongoing studies.

• Support study execution through interpretation of emerging data and resolution of scientific issues.

What You'll Bring:

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree (MD, PharmD, PhD, DNP, or equivalent).

• Minimum 10 years of experience in clinical research, clinical development, medical affairs, or evidence generation.

• Experience leading development and execution of clinical studies and evidence-generation programs.

• Experience working within regulated healthcare environments.

• Strong understanding of GCP, global regulatory expectations, and evidence-generation requirements.

• Experience generating evidence across multiple evidence domains, including clinical outcomes, safety, workflow efficiency, human factors, usability, implementation science, real-world evidence, and health economic outcomes.

• Builds trusted partnerships across Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, R&D, HEOR, Commercial, and Quality.

• Aligns diverse stakeholders around a common research vision.

• Applies deep understanding of clinical research methodology to complex scientific and business questions.

• Designs innovative evidence-generation approaches across pharmaceuticals, devices, and healthcare technologies.

• Adapts rapidly to evolving portfolio priorities.

• Effectively operates in ambiguity and changing business environments.

• Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Comfortable building new capabilities and processes.

• Bias toward action and execution.

• Challenges traditional approaches to accelerate learning and impact.

• Balances innovation with scientific rigor.

• Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.

• Strong business acumen and impeccable integrity.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $224,000 - $308,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, commission, and/or long-term incentive. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.
US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)
This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter
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