VP Clinical Development

🏨 The Company

Resilience is a global, clinical-stage medtech company specializing in oncology, gastroenterology, and psychiatry. We develop digital solutions that transform patient care and generate robust clinical data to improve treatments. As a true sponsor, we are conducting multiple prospective randomized clinical trials to obtain regulatory approvals in Europe and the United States.

📝 Your Role

In a nutshell :

The Vice President, Clinical Development will own and lead all sponsor-led clinical development activities at Resilience across oncology, gastroenterology, and psychiatry.

This role is accountable for the strategic direction, design, and execution of Resilience-sponsored clinical trials and real-world evidence programs, ensuring consistency, scientific rigor, operational excellence, and regulatory readiness across all business units.

Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer , the VP Clinical Development will build and lead a centralized Clinical Development organization , composed of Clinical Leads and Clinical Scientists, and will serve as the single point of accountability for clinical development execution at the company level.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Development Ownership (Core accountability)

Own the end-to-end clinical development strategy and execution for all Resilience-sponsored studies

Provide senior clinical leadership on:

study design and methodology

protocol development and amendments

endpoint selection and clinical relevance

interpretation of clinical and real-world evidence

Ensure alignment and consistency of clinical development approaches across oncology, gastroenterology, and psychiatry

Team Leadership & Organization

Build, lead, and mentor a Clinical Development team composed of:

Clinical Leads (by therapeutic area)

Clinical Scientists

Define clear roles, responsibilities, and governance across the team

Establish scalable ways of working enabling high-quality, timely execution

Portfolio Governance & Standardization

Design and implement standardized clinical development frameworks across business units

Harmonize:

protocol templates and study documentation

clinical review and governance processes

decision criteria and escalation pathways

Ensure alignment with ICH-GCP, ISO 14155, MDR , and applicable regulatory standards

Operational Excellence & Inspection Readiness

Ensure inspection readiness across all sponsor-led trials

Partner closely with Clinical Operations to:

drive execution excellence and risk anticipation

ensure quality-by-design principles

resolve complex operational or scientific issues

Act as senior escalation point for clinical development matters

Cross-Functional Leadership

Collaborate closely with:

Regulatory & Quality (clinical strategy, submissions, audits)

Biostatistics (study design, endpoints, analysis plans)

Medical Affairs (scientific alignment and evidence narratives)

Market Access & Public Affairs (clinical evidence support)

Product and Data teams (translation of clinical insights into digital solutions)

Ensure clinical development is tightly integrated with company-wide priorities

👤 Candidate Profile

🙂 You're the right person if you are :

A strategic thinker with the ability to prioritize in complex environments

An inspiring leader with a talent for developing your teams

Executive presence with strong scientific credibility

Cross-functional minded with ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders

Comfortable with innovation (digital health, non-traditional endpoints)

An excellent communicator and presenter

📃 You're the right person if you have already :

An MD MSc or MD PhD degree

Minimum 5 years of clinical development experience on the sponsor side (biotech/pharma)

Proven experience managing and scaling clinical development teams

Strong understanding of regulatory and inspection requirements

Worked in international contexts (EU/US regulatory exposure)

Nice to have : Experience in digital therapeutics or biotechs that have obtained CE/FDA approvals.

💛 Why join us?

Direct impact on the company's clinical governance : you will build Resilience's clinical engine from scratch

Cross-therapeutic exposure : oncology, psychiatry, gastroenterology

Strategic interaction with executive leadership : you will work directly with the CMO and CEO

Ambitious scale-up environment : combines scientific rigor, digital innovation, and regulatory ambition

3️⃣ Recruitment Process

Strategic Fit - Charles Ferté, CMO (1h) - Assess your clinical vision, governance approach, and leadership philosophy

Cross-functional Assessment - Parallel interviews (30/45 minutes) with:

Blanche (Chief of Staff) - Strategic structuring and prioritization

Yasmine (Head of QARA) - Compliance mindset

Elena (HR) - Leadership and cultural fit

Nicoleta (Director Biostat) - (Clinical Scientists) - Technical collaboration

Bertille - (Clinical Scientists) - Technical collaboration

Elodie - (Clinical Scientists) - Technical collaboration

Emma (Clinical Scientists) - Technical collaboration

Case Presentation - Strategic clinical case presentation

Executive Interview (30 minutes) - John, CEO - Vision and strategy alignment

English Test (optional - 5/10 min) - Brief conversation with a native speaker to assess your level

GDPR : Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. They will be available only for people involved in the process and erased after 2 years of inactivity.

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