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Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunities for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Vice President Early Clinical Development, Experimental Medicine – Therapeutic Area (TA) Oncology within BI’s Innovation Unit (IU) will provide strategic and visionary leadership for early clinical development and global experimental medicine within the TA. This VP role is critical to accelerating First-in-Men studies to proof-of-concept studies, shaping global disease area and therapeutic modality strategy, and ensuring competitive differentiation of our compounds. This role will drive innovation and scientific and operational excellence to integrate cutting edge translational science, influence portfolio decisions, and deliver high quality clinical data sets to accelerate smart development of transformative therapies aligned with corporate objectives.

The VP, Experimental Medicine – TA Oncology has enterprise-wide impact through portfolio acceleration, external scientific leadership, planning and execution excellence and cross-functional integration with regulatory, clinical operations, and commercial strategies globally.

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Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

+ Defines and executes global medical/clinical and translational strategy for the TA.

+ Serves as a key decision-maker in governance committees.

+ Responsible for timely delivery of early-phase clinical plans in alignment with compound and overall portfolio strategy.

Scientific & Clinical Excellence:

+ Oversees design and conduct of First-in-Men to Proof-of-Concept studies (e.g. Phase I–IIb) ensuring scientific rigor and regulatory compliance.

+ Maintains deep knowledge of emerging science and competitor strategies.

+ Oversees alignment of scientific platforms, medical communication, and product optimization plans.

+ Reviews and approves protocols, reports, and publications.

Team Leadership:

+ Builds and inspires high-performing global teams, including clinical scientists, medical directors, biomarker experts and other early clinical development functions.

+ Fosters innovation and operational excellence.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

+ Partners with Research, Safety Science, Clinical Pharmacology, Translational Medicine, Regulatory, and Commercial teams.

+ Responsible for effective governance participation; stakeholder satisfaction.

Business Development & External Engagement:

+ Leads preliminary clinical evaluations for in-licensing opportunities.

+ Represents the organization externally with key opinion leaders and regulatory authorities.

Requirements

+ MD or MD/PhD in relevant medical specialty/Therapeutic Area required, e.g. board-certification in medical oncology, hematology, or other relevant organ specialty.

+ Scientific Expertise: Deep understanding of disease biology, clinical trial design, and translational medicine (biomarker and companion diagnostic strategy)

+ Advanced clinical and scientific expertise in Clinical Oncology and Translational Oncology Research, with focus on early clinical development (IND through Proof of Concept).

+ Clinical specialization or board eligibility in respective Therapeutic Area

+ 10–15 years of combined experience across hospital, academic, and industry settings, including senior leadership roles; U.S. clinical/pharma experience strongly preferred.

+ Proven ability to influence enterprise-level decisions and deliver strategic impact in a global matrix organization.

+ Leadership: Ability to inspire and lead multidisciplinary and crossfunctional teams.

+ Strategic Thinking: Strong capability to define and execute long-term vision.

+ Communication: Excellent ability to influence and engage internal and external stakeholders.

+ Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with global drug development and compliance requirements.

+ Innovation: Track record of implementing novel approaches in early clinical development.

**Compensation** :

This position, VP, Experimental Medicine - Oncology, offers a base salary typically between $280,000.00 and $441,000.00.  The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance based bonus and or other compensation elements. For an overview of our benefits please click here. (https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/us/careers/benefits-rewards)

**Eligibility Requirements** :

+ Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.

+ Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).

+ Must be 18 years of age or older.

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to a person’s actual or perceived race, including natural hairstyles, hair texture and protective hairstyles; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; citizenship status, marital status; gender, gender identity or expression; sexual orientation, mental, physical or intellectual disability, veteran status; pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law.