Global Patient Recruitment Programs (Associate Director)

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Global Clinical Operations is transforming to fulfil our vision to “Be the best performing and trusted Global Clinical Operations organization”.  Our mission is to “Accelerate the pipeline through innovative, efficient and expeditious delivery of high-quality data”.

The overall purpose of this position is to ensure that all patient recruitment and retention activities are accelerated with most comprehensive and tailored solutions to support patient recruitment for all programs. This individual will work closely with study teams and various stakeholders to ensure that robust patient recruitment & retention strategies are defined and implemented.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:  

• Develops and supports the implementation of the global patient recruitment and retention plan for each study.  Including proactively monitoring recruitment plans and defined KPI measures.
• Support and coach SDLs/central team in implementing aspects of their patient recruitment and retention plan.
• Providing additional support to central study team by collecting, reviewing data and re-working aspects of the strategic plan when intervention is deemed necessary.
• Post strategy development, lead (and support where appropriate) clinical study teams, vendors and CRO as applicable.
• Responsible for understanding the internal landscape of recruitment vendors, services available, pricing models, and historical vendor performance to advise study teams as necessary
• Work cross-functionally with internal groups including as needed to ensure full comprehension of services, support and requirements.
• Work with central study team stakeholders to ensure understanding of enrolment challenges and barriers for early planning of recruitment support.  
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability through effective problem solving. Ensures that patient recruitment and retention plans are aligned with study recruitment projections
• Discusses and agrees trigger points for recruitment/retention mitigation strategies with Study Delivery Lead (and wider study team as needed)
• Supports collaboration between cross functional teams in the implementation of patient recruitment and retention strategies and tools
• May act as Subject Matter Expert
• Evaluates and tracks vendor performance.

Basic Qualifications: 

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, or relevant field.
• 7+ years relevant pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Five or more years of clinical operations experience preferably across multiple TAs and phases of development in Rx and Vx.  
• Five or more years of experience in developing and executing strategies for clinical trials, diversity & inclusivity, digital and patient engagement action plans or solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. degree in Biology, Chemistry, or related field.
• Excellent problem solving and project management skills gained in a complex matrix organization
• Results orientated with a drive to set and reach challenging goals with high standards for performance
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build strong relationships
• Ability to analyze data from divergent sources and translate it into meaningful recommendations
• Good understanding of the drug development process
• Understanding of all relevant industry guidelines (ie; FDA, GCP and ICH guidelines)

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at HR.AmericasSC-CS@gsk.com where you can also request a call.

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