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🧬 We're Hiring: Clinical Strategy Manager📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully RemoteAbout UsWe are a healthcare and life-sciences organization committed to advancing evidence-based clinical development, improving patient outcomes, and delivering innovative healthcare solutions. Our distributed teams collaborate across Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Biostatistics, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Market Access, Health Economics, Data Science, Quality, and Executive Leadership to develop and execute strategies that translate scientific evidence into meaningful clinical value.The RoleWe are seeking an experienced Clinical Strategy Manager to lead clinical strategy development, evidence-generation planning, clinical programme design, therapeutic-area analysis, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional clinical initiatives. The ideal candidate will combine strong scientific and clinical knowledge with strategic planning, data interpretation, project leadership, and commercial awareness to guide clinical programmes from early development through evidence generation and lifecycle management.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelop and implement clinical strategies aligned with organizational objectives, therapeutic-area priorities, patient needs, scientific evidence, regulatory requirements, and product-development goals.Lead clinical strategy development across the product lifecycle, including early development, clinical trials, evidence generation, regulatory milestones, launch preparation, and post-market evidence initiatives.Collaborate with Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Biostatistics, Data Management, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Quality, Market Access, Health Economics, Commercial, Legal, and Executive Leadership.Develop clinical development plans, evidence-generation strategies, study concepts, clinical objectives, strategic milestones, and programme roadmaps.Conduct therapeutic-area research, disease-landscape assessments, treatment-pattern analyses, unmet-need assessments, competitor intelligence, clinical-literature reviews, and emerging-science evaluations.Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) including clinical milestones, study performance, patient recruitment, protocol adherence, data quality, evidence-generation progress, regulatory milestones, risk status, and strategic programme outcomes.Provide strategic input into clinical trial design, endpoints, patient populations, inclusion and exclusion criteria, comparator selection, study methodology, evidence requirements, and programme sequencing.Work with clinical and statistical teams to evaluate clinical data, interim findings, safety trends, efficacy outcomes, patient-reported outcomes, real-world evidence, and other relevant evidence.Support protocol development, investigator engagement, clinical programme planning, study feasibility assessments, site strategy, recruitment planning, and clinical-operational decision-making.Coordinate clinical advisory boards, investigator meetings, key opinion leader (KOL) engagements, scientific workshops, expert consultations, and external clinical collaborations.Develop and maintain relationships with clinicians, researchers, academic institutions, clinical investigators, patient organizations, healthcare professionals, and scientific experts.Partner with Regulatory Affairs to develop clinical evidence strategies supporting regulatory submissions, scientific advice meetings, authority interactions, clinical development plans, and lifecycle-management activities.Support development of evidence packages for health technology assessment (HTA), reimbursement, market access, value communication, and payer engagement.Integrate real-world evidence, observational research, registries, electronic health records, claims data, patient-generated data, and other evidence sources into clinical strategy where appropriate.Evaluate emerging clinical technologies, digital health solutions, decentralized clinical trials, remote monitoring, wearable technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and advanced analytics for their potential impact on clinical development.Drive digital transformation through AI-assisted clinical-trial design, predictive patient recruitment, clinical-data analytics, risk-based monitoring, automated literature surveillance, evidence synthesis, and intelligent clinical decision-support tools.Utilize clinical-trial management systems, electronic data-capture platforms, electronic trial master file (eTMF) systems, statistical software, medical-literature databases, Microsoft 365, Power BI, Tableau, R, Python, and clinical analytics platforms.Ensure clinical strategy and programme activities comply with applicable UAE healthcare and clinical-research requirements and relevant international frameworks, including ICH-GCP, applicable regulatory authority requirements, clinical-trial regulations, data-protection standards, and ethical research principles.Manage clinical strategy budgets, external clinical advisers, research organizations, specialist consultants, scientific partners, data providers, and clinical research vendors.Conduct clinical programme risk assessments covering scientific, operational, regulatory, recruitment, safety, data, financial, and strategic risks, with appropriate mitigation plans.Prepare clinical strategy documents, clinical development plans, evidence-generation roadmaps, executive presentations, programme dashboards, clinical assessments, competitive intelligence reports, and strategic recommendations for senior leadership.Support scientific communications, abstracts, manuscripts, conference materials, advisory-board presentations, and other evidence dissemination activities as appropriate.Lead, mentor, and develop clinical strategy professionals, clinical scientists, analysts, project managers, and multidisciplinary teams while fostering scientific rigor, patient focus, collaboration, ethical conduct, innovation, and continuous improvement.RequirementsBachelor's degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Life Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Research, Public Health, or a related field.Advanced degree such as MD, PharmD, PhD, MSc, MPH, or equivalent clinical or life-sciences qualification is highly advantageous.Professional clinical, medical, research, or life-sciences certification is preferred depending on the therapeutic area and organizational requirements.Minimum 5 years of experience in clinical development, clinical research, medical affairs, clinical strategy, life sciences, pharmaceutical development, biotechnology, healthcare consulting, or related fields.At least 2 years of experience managing clinical programmes, clinical strategy initiatives, evidence-generation projects, therapeutic-area programmes, or multidisciplinary clinical teams preferred.Strong understanding of clinical development, clinical-trial methodology, evidence generation, biostatistics, clinical research standards, patient safety, regulatory requirements, and therapeutic-area strategy.Experience with clinical-trial management systems, EDC platforms, eTMF systems, medical-literature databases, Microsoft 365, Power BI, Tableau, R, Python, and clinical analytics technologies.Familiarity with AI-powered clinical-trial design, predictive recruitment, machine-learning clinical analytics, decentralized trials, digital biomarkers, real-world evidence, automated literature surveillance, and advanced evidence-generation technologies is highly advantageous.Strong scientific, analytical, strategic, communication, stakeholder management, project management, presentation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.Ability to interpret complex clinical evidence and translate scientific findings into clear strategic recommendations for clinical, regulatory, medical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.Strong understanding of research ethics, patient safety, data integrity, clinical quality, ICH-GCP principles, regulatory expectations, and evidence standards.Ability to manage multiple clinical strategy initiatives while balancing scientific objectives, patient needs, regulatory requirements, timelines, budgets, operational constraints, data quality, and organizational priorities.Ability to work effectively in a remote environment with distributed clinical, medical, regulatory, statistical, data, quality, market-access, commercial, and executive teams, with occasional travel for investigator meetings, advisory boards, scientific conferences, clinical programme reviews, regulatory meetings, and stakeholder engagements as required.What We OfferFully remote work arrangement with flexible collaboration across global clinical development, medical affairs, regulatory, biostatistics, data science, quality, market access, and executive teams.Competitive compensation package with performance-based incentives.Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.Professional development and clinical strategy leadership growth opportunities.Exposure to AI-powered clinical development, predictive analytics, real-world evidence, digital health, decentralized clinical trials, and next-generation evidence-generation technologies.Collaborative culture focused on scientific excellence, patient outcomes, ethical research, innovation, evidence-based decision-making, and continuous improvement.Opportunity to shape clinical development strategies that accelerate evidence generation, strengthen scientific understanding, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.