Senior Vice President, Research

• Primarily remote position with periodic travel to the health system's New Jersey locations.
• Regular on-site presence for executive meetings, physician engagement, strategic planning, and key research initiatives.
• Occasional travel to industry, academic, and professional conferences.

• Highly competitive executive compensation package commensurate with experience and qualifications.
• Performance-based incentive opportunities.
• Comprehensive executive benefits package.

• Develop and execute the strategic vision and roadmap for research across the health system, aligning research initiatives with organizational goals and long-term growth strategies.
• Assess and optimize existing research infrastructure, capabilities, and strategic assets to build a world-class clinical research organization.
• Lead the expansion of the clinical research enterprise, increasing research volume across multiple therapeutic specialties with an emphasis on non-oncology clinical trials.
• Build and strengthen research infrastructure, ensuring operational excellence, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with an affiliated Academic Medical Center to support translational research, faculty collaboration, investigator development, and innovation.
• Partner with physician leaders and service line executives to identify new clinical research opportunities across the health system.
• Expand relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, medical device manufacturers, contract research organizations (CROs), and other research sponsors.
• Provide executive oversight of research operations, including clinical trial management, research administration, budgeting, compliance, quality assurance, and performance metrics.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and institutional regulations governing clinical research, including FDA regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Institutional Review Board (IRB) requirements, and human subjects protections.
• Recruit, develop, and mentor high-performing research leadership and operational teams.
• Identify opportunities for external funding, grants, strategic partnerships, and sustainable research revenue.
• Represent the health system with academic institutions, industry partners, sponsors, professional organizations, and national research forums.

• Doctoral degree required; PhD (in biomedical sciences, public health, clinical research, healthcare administration, or a related discipline) strongly preferred. Candidates with an MD, DO, PharmD, or other terminal healthcare or scientific degree and significant research leadership experience will also be considered.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive executive leadership experience in clinical research within an integrated health system, academic medical center, research institute, or comparable healthcare organization.
• Demonstrated success leading the growth of complex clinical research programs across multiple specialties.
• Experience collaborating with executive leadership, physician investigators, and academic institutions.
• Experience leading research across a multi-hospital or integrated health system.
• Demonstrated success expanding industry-sponsored clinical trials across diverse therapeutic areas.
• Experience working in close partnership with an Academic Medical Center.
• Experience developing research infrastructure during periods of rapid organizational growth.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical research regulations, FDA requirements, GCP, IRB processes, research compliance, and research administration.
• Strong scientific acumen and a deep understanding of clinical research from the Principal Investigator (PI) perspective.
• A commitment to staying abreast of research industry trends, emerging methodologies, evolving sponsor expectations, and the changing clinical research landscape.
• Demonstrated ability to translate research strategy into measurable operational and financial results, knowing what it takes to operationalize ROI while always thinking patients first.
• Proven ability to build strategic partnerships and successfully lead organizational change.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, financial management, and relationship-building skills.

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