Barrington James
Director, Clinical Pharmacology
Requirements
Candidates should have a strong foundation in clinical pharmacology, with proven leadership experience in managing and developing scientists. A background in pharma or a service/CRO environment is preferred, along with exceptional communication skills.
Job Description
I'm working with a growing pharmaceutical development services business to find a senior Clinical Pharmacologist to lead and expand their CP function. This is a high-impact role at the centre of that growth, with full oversight of project delivery, team leadership, and client relationships.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a strong team of senior and principal scientists
- Oversee and deliver CP projects end-to-end, from study design through to reporting
- Serve as the primary client interface: building relationships, presenting data, and driving repeat business
- Represent the function externally: conferences, business development support, and scientific advisory
- Collaborate closely with c-suite
- Help shape the scientific and commercial strategy as the business scales
- Strong foundation in clinical pharmacology either pure CP or CP with modelling/simulation background
- Proven leadership: experience managing and developing experienced scientists is essential
- Exceptional communicator in a client meeting or conference hall as in a project review
- Broad modality exposure welcomed: small molecule, mAbs, ADCs
- Background in pharma or a service/CRO environment both considered
- Driven to grow personally and organisationally
Skills
About Barrington James
The global Life Sciences industry is dominant in today’s world. Drug development processes are progressing faster than ever before. The need for vaccines, treatments and medical devices continues to grow at an exponential rate to ensure treatment for disease reaches those it needs to. That means for Barrington James, we grow at the same speed. With 14 global offices specialising in niche areas of the Life Science industry, we are ready to support our growing group of clients in sourcing the most, senior, specialist and rare candidates to join them. ‘We Invest In Our People’ through training and development, through meritocratic progression, and through unrivalled commission structures, shareholder and bonus schemes. Barrington James Board & Executive Partners Barrington James is your global and award- winning Life Science Executive recruitment partner. With combined experience of over 100 years, our Executive Search team has access to the deepest pharmaceutical networks. Our primary focus is to understand and address the business challenges and hiring needs of our clients through a range of bespoke services, including Executive Search, Project Management, Market Research, Mapping Practice and Reference Check Insights.