Associate Director, Global Patient Recruitment Programs

GSK•Boston, MA

About The Position

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. Find out more: Our approach to R&D 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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)

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

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