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…

Source: Arbeitnow (https://www.arbeitnow.fr/jobs/companies/resilience-care/vp-clinical-development-paris-164973)