Head of Clinical Development and Biometrics

As a privately-owned, biopharmaceutical company, Ferring pioneers and delivers life-changing therapies that help people build families and live better lives. Our independence helps us cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and long-term perspective that enables us to achieve growth and scale, while remaining agile and true to our 'people first' philosophy. Built on a 70-year plus commitment to science and research, Ferring is relentless in its pursuit of science that drives powerful discoveries and therapies to help people build families, stay healthy, and stand up to the world's oldest enemy: disease.

With Ferring, you will be joining a recognized leader, identified as one of "The World's Most Innovative Companies" by Fast Company, and honored by Fortune with inclusion on its "Change the World List," for addressing society's unmet needs. Ferring US is also Great Places to Work Certified, distinguishing it as one of the best companies to work for in the country.

Responsibilities:

The Head of Clinical Development & Biometrics provides strategic and operational leadership across clinical development, clinical operations, and biometrics functions. The role blends clinical leadership with data-driven decision-making to deliver high-quality evidence from early clinical studies through Phase 2, with a strong emphasis on fit-for-purpose trial design, robust analysis, regulatory readiness, strong governance, and efficient outsourcing in a small microbiome-focused biotechnology environment. The role is also responsible for the People Leadership of the Microbiome Clinical Development & Biometrics Team.

• Lead global clinical development and clinical operations strategy across the microbiome pipeline through Phase 2 and 3
• Provide leadership for clinical operations planning and execution, including study delivery, site oversight, enrollment performance, and operational risk management
• Oversee biometrics activities, including development of study protocols, statistical analysis plans, data standards, biostatistics, data management, and programming
• Design fit-for-purpose, innovative, and operationally feasible clinical trials
• Provide medical and scientific oversight of clinical studies, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and evolving microbiome-specific considerations
• Ensure the integrity, consistency, and compliance of clinical data in alignment with GCP and regulatory requirements
• Interpret clinical and biometrics data to inform program decisions and progression
• Manage CROs and vendors to ensure quality, timelines, and budget adherence
• Contribute to regulatory strategy and lead clinical and biometrics components of regulatory submissions, including INDs, CTAs, and NDAs/BLAs
• Serve as a key liaison with regulatory agencies, external advisors, and CRO partners
• Support preparation of briefing documents and participation in health authority meetings
• Build scalable processes, governance, and high-performing teams to support efficient and high-quality development execution

Requirements:

• Years of Experience: Minimum10-15+years of leadership in clinical development, with strong clinical operations and biometrics oversight.
• Required Education/Qualifications: Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD or equivalent).
• Expertise: Clinical development, clinical operations, biometrics, trial design, regulatory requirements, vendor oversight, and microbiome experience preferred.
• Communication: Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex data clearly to executive leadership and external stakeholders.
• Judgement: Ability to balance scientific innovation with clinical and regulatory rigor in an emerging field.
• Problem Solving: Highly complex and multi-dimensional, integrating clinical, operational, statistical, and microbiome science and trial execution.
• Level of Autonomy: Operateswith a high strategic autonomy in a lean biotech environment.
• Innovation: Advanced trial design, microbiome-specific endpoints, and data-driven methodologies.
• Key Stakeholders: Strategic leadership, executive communication, and regulatory interactions across internal and external stakeholders. Internal: Executive leadership, R&D, Regulatory, QA, Clinical Operations, Medical, and Commercial. Also responsible for leading and coaching team. External: Regulatory authorities, CRO's, vendors, advisors, and investigators.

Ferring + you

At Ferring, we offer competitive total compensation along with an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work. From working hours that respect your lifestyle, a culture that is welcoming and equitable, and the chance to work with the industry's most impressive people, these are just some of the ways we live our "People First" philosophy.

Our Compensation and Benefits

At Ferring, base salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $[000,000] to $[000,000], which is the reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount paid may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, education and primary work location. Additional compensation for this role will be provided based on competitive annual incentive compensation targets in the form of an annual bonus - payouts are based on individual and company performance.

Benefits for this role include: comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with a premium differential, inverse to base salary, to be paid by employees; a 401k plan and company match; short and long-term disability coverage; basic life insurance; wellness benefits; reimbursement for certain tuition expenses; sick time frontloaded yearly of 40 hours, or higher if state or local law requires; vacation time for full time employees to accrue between 112.5 and 150 hours yearly in the first four (4) years of employment, and additional accruals starting in the fifth (5th) year of employment; and 12 to 13 paid holidays per year. We are proud to offer 26 weeks of paid parental leave, learn more about the parental leave offering in our benefits package here. For roles that are not field-based, Ferring has a policy that allows employees to work up to two days from home and three at a Ferring site, weekly.

Ferring is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local laws.

Join our team and your voice will be heard, and your contributions will be valued. If you love to come up with new ways to make a positive difference and see them through, you will fit right in.

We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (including Disability/Protected Veterans). We maintain a drug-free workplace.