Associate Director, Medical Grants and IIS Operations

CSL's organization is accelerating innovation to deliver greater impact for patients. With a project-led structure and a focus on collaboration, we’re building a future-ready team that thrives in dynamic biotech ecosystems. Joining CSL now means being part of an agile team committed to developing therapies that make a meaningful difference worldwide.

Could you be our next Associate Director, Medical Grants and IIS Operations? The job is in our King of Prussia, PA or Waltham, MA Office. This is a hybrid position and is onsite three days a week. You will report to the Director Head of Global Medical, Grants & IIS Operations.

You will partner closely with the Director for Grants & IIS to redesign the grants intake and approval process to allow for end-to-end enterprise approach across all grant activities. The role will be responsible for supporting strategic evaluation of all grants applications, ensuring compliant review and processing of grants, and liaising with finance stakeholders to maintain compliance and alignment with budget.

You will support the Director in evaluating, tracking, and closing out IISs in close alignment with disease area leads. Based on an excellent understanding of the legal and regulatory requirements, the position will ensure that policies reflect the highest levels of ethics and compliance, that review of applications is based solely on scientific merit and alignment with prespecified scope, decisions are communicated in a timely manner, and that subsequent contracting and milestones are accomplished seamlessly.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Responsible for oversight of an end-to-end enterprise approach to grants to ensure a rigorous framework for strategic decision-making consistently across geographies
• Responsible for ensuring all grants and IIS applications are processed through CyberGrants (or designated platform)
• Leads Grants Review Committees, ensuring that all required voting members are present at each meeting, and that the outcomes of each meeting are documented.
• Responsible for the governance, development of an industry-leading Grants program and challenging the status quo with continuous improvement of Grants and for providing subject matter expertise to ensure Medical colleagues globally are fully trained on process
• Accountable to provide regular impact metrics of approved and ongoing grants, including milestones
• Responsible for the governance and oversight of grants in Medical Affairs in CyberGrants (or designated platform).
• Provide additional leadership to the broader team by having a positive, solutions-focused, innovative and collaborative mindset
• Provide support to IIS activities as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required or MD/PharmD/PhD equivalent experience, advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of pharmaceutical/biotherapeutics industry experience
• Experience in drug safety, pharmacovigilance, quality assurance and compliance requirements are desirable
• 3+ years of Medical Affairs Leadership experience
• Experience in biomedical research, study feasibility

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About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

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