Senior Director, Clinical & BioPharma Operations

Do you have experience leading complex clinical operations and biopharma diagnostic programs across multiple stakeholders and geographies? Can you bring structure, adapt quickly, and make a measurable impact on how large, strategic studies are delivered?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, join SOPHiA GENETICS as our new  Senior Director, Clinical and Biopharma Operations , and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.

Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule allowing 2 days PW home working, collaborating closely with colleagues in our Rolle, CH corporate office.

Our Mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your Mission

As our Senior Director, Clinical and Biopharma Operations , you will play a pivotal role in orchestrating the end-to-end delivery of our flagship multimodal real-world evidence efforts as well as our portfolio of Biopharma diagnostics projects, in collaboration with leading biopharma partners. Working closely with Data Sciences, Tech, Biopharma, Product and Clinical teams, you will ensure seamless operational execution, robust data delivery, and pharma-grade quality across all programs. You will lead the design and implementation of scalable study operations, site engagement approaches, and cross-functional ways of working that enable predictable, high-impact outcomes.

The value you add

Lead Delivery of Strategic Portfolio of BioPharma-partnered Studies :

• Take overall operational accountability for large-scale multimodal real-world evidence efforts in collaboration with our pharma partners
• Oversee the portfolio of Biopharma Dx projects, from pilots to larger diagnostic collaborations, ensuring timelines, scope, and revenue commitments are met
• Lead, coach and develop an established global team of colleagues across Clinical and Biopharma Operations

Optimize Clinical & Biopharma Operations & Processes :

Drive Study Performance, Data Quality & Analytics Interface :

Requirements

Benefits

You will be joining an organisation with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.

Business recognition and accolades include :

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview :

Sickness and Accident coverage through Helsana

Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous

Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal

The Process

We use the power of AI to help our partners make decisions. If you’re utilising AI in your search and application process, why not use some of these prompts, or read our AI guide.

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Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.

We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilise agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.

Starting Date : ASAP; H1 2026

Location : Rolle, CH; Hybrid with occasional international travel

Contract : Full time, Permanent