Commercial Trials Manager (Maternity Cover)

About us

The King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office is a collaboration between King’s College London, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. It was set up to provide a single interface for those wishing to conduct clinical trials within the partner organisations, and to ensure that there are common, efficient processes for the set up and administration of clinical trials.

About the role

We wish to recruit a Commercial Trials Manager, to lead the Commercial Team within KHP-CTO. The Commercial Trials Manager will work closely with the Director to ensure the successful and efficient set up and administration of the commercial trial portfolio across our Partner Organisations.

The main responsibilities of the post holder are to provide day to day line management for Senior team members including two Deputy Commercial Trials Managers, the Commercial Trials Contracts Manager and the Systems Manager; set and track key performance metrics; report and analyse performance data for various internal and external stakeholders; attend strategic Partnership meetings; present on behalf of KHP-CTO; act as a key point of escalation and lead on the development of relevant policy and processes.

The post holder will play a pivotal and proactive role in the development and maintenance of relationships with industry wishing to conduct commercial clinical trials within the partner organisations and raise the appetite within KHP to engage in commercial research.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered a fixed-term contract for 14 months maternity cover.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in field of clinical trials in the NHS/Academic and/or commercial sector
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of commercial clinical trials including the current national infrastructure for the set-up, approval, management and monitoring of clinical research in the NHS and the legal, regulatory and statutory governance of clinical trials and GCP
• Significant line management experience
• Demonstrably high levels of accuracy and attention to detail and the ability to develop, implement and work to SOPs
• Ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and have excellent written and oral communication skills. And the ability to analyse and interpret research management information and to make judgements regarding a range of highly complex research management issues
• Excellent organisational and time management skills. Autonomous, highly motivated, and with the ability to influence & inspire others
• Excellent interpersonal skills – tactful and being able to deal with a wide range of people in an enthusiastic and helpful manner whilst being capable of firmly maintaining policies and regulations
• Strong computer skills (proficient with MS Word, Excel and web-based applications

Desirable criteria

• Educated at post-graduate level
• Knowledge of medical, scientific and/or research terminology

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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