Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Company: Cellectis
Department: Clinical Development
Position Summary
Cellectis is seeking a highly experienced Senior Director, Medical Affairs to help shape and operationalize the company's medical affairs strategy across its clinicalstage portfolio. Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, this leader will elevate Cellectis' scientific presence, support pipeline advancement, and ensure medical excellence in evidence generation, scientific communications, and external engagement.
This role is ideal for a medical affairs leader with strong immunooncology expertise, strategic agility, and a passion for patientcentered innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the CMO to develop and execute Cellectis' medical affairs strategy.
- Build and manage critical medical affairs capabilities, including medical strategy, medical communications, publications, and scientific engagement.
- Provide expert scientific and medical insights across immunooncology programs.
- Lead engagement with key opinion leaders, investigators, and scientific experts.
- Represent Cellectis at scientific meetings, advisory boards, and congresses.
- Drive creation of scientific platforms and datadriven communication strategies.
- Oversee development of medical information, publications, and internal scientific education.
- Identify and address data gaps through evidencegeneration initiatives.
- Support clinical development and earlyaccess programs with medical expertise.
- Integrate patient insights into medical and clinical strategies.
- Partner crossfunctionally with clinical development, regulatory and communications affairs to ensure alignment and shared decisionmaking.
- Establish governance processes, operational metrics, and reporting frameworks.
- Promote a culture of scientific rigor, compliance, and patient focus.
Education and Experience
- Pharm D or MD experience in Hematology / Oncology --ย
- 15+ years of medical affairs and/or clinical development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.
- Demonstrated experience engaging KOLs, TA experts, payors and patient advocacy organizations.ย
- Experience in drug development and/or clinical practice;ย demonstratedย knowledge of competitive landscape, trends,ย and physician practices.
- Skilled atย presenting clinical and non-clinical data to external audiences and management team(s)
- Clinical development experienceย highlyย preferred.ย
Core Competencies
- Excellent clinical judgment and decisionmaking skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence crossfunctional teams.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships with investigators, KOLs, and internal stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead crossfunctional teams in a matrixed environment.
- Missiondriven leader with a passion for improving patient outcomes.
- Comfortable in a fastpaced, innovative biotech environment.
- Ability to travel up to 50-60% of time
Compensation Range: $175-225k