Head of Patient Recruitment | Unique Ground-Floor “Building/Shaping” Opportunity | Well-Funded & Rap

Head of Patient Recruitment | Unique Ground-Floor “Building/Shaping” Opportunity | Well-Funded & Rapidly Growing Biotech | 1st-in-Class Rare Disease Programs | Boston | RETAINED SEARCHSUMMARY: Our client is a well-funded and rapidly scaling clinical-stage biotech company developing innovative therapies for patients with serious and underserved rare diseases. The organization is entering an important new chapter of clinical advancement and organizational growth: advancing multiple programs through later-stage development while simultaneously broadening its pipeline and building the infrastructure of a maturing biotechnology company. They are now seeking an experienced, patient-centric leader to serve as Head of Patient Recruitment and Retention. This person will establish and lead a new specialized function dedicated to optimizing patient recruitment, engagement, and retention across its expanding clinical portfolio. This newly created leadership position will have enterprise-wide responsibility for developing and executing innovative, patient-centric strategies that accelerate clinical trial enrollment, improve retention, and reduce barriers to participation across the company’s portfolio. This is a highly visible opportunity for an experienced patient recruitment leader to build the function and strategy rather than inherit an established model, while directly influencing the successful development of potentially transformative therapies for patients with significant unmet medical needs. For an experienced clinical trial recruitment and patient engagement leader who combines strategic vision/thinking with a strong willingness to operate hands-on in a rapidly growing biotech environment, this represents a rare/compelling opportunity to establish a critical capability from the ground up while directly influencing the speed and success with which potentially meaningful new therapies reach patients. ATTRACTIVE FEATURES ABOUT THIS POSITION AND COMPANY:Unique “Ground-Floor” Strategic & Hands-on Opportunity: As the company's first dedicated leader focused on Patient Recruitment & Retention, you will establish and define the strategy, capabilities, partnerships, processes for this critical new function and recruitment engine that serves a whole franchise. Perfect Time to Join: With an advancing clinical portfolio and increasing organizational scale, the company is investing in specialized capabilities that can strengthen clinical execution today while creating infrastructure for the future. Architect of a New Specialized Function: Rather than stepping into someone else's model, you will have meaningful latitude to define the company's approach to Patient Recruitment & Retention and build the capabilities necessary to support its future Best of Both Worlds: Join a company which offers a rare combination of biotech upside / high-impact/ entrepreneurial feel, as well as pipeline breadth / strong financing / financial runway. High Impact & Visibility: Take on a highly visible role with direct influence on some of the company's most important clinical development priorities. Working across an advancing portfolio that includes increasingly complex global clinical programs, you will have significant ownership and visibility in shaping how the organization identifies, reaches, recruits, and retains patients in its clinical trials. Differentiated Pipeline of 1st-in-class assets : Many of the company's programs involve rare and underserved patient populations that require thoughtful, innovative approaches to patient identification, referral, engagement, and retention.