Oncology Site Engagement Lead (SEL)

Job title:

Oncology Site Engagement Lead (SEL)

Company

GlaxoSmithKline

Job description

Job Purpose:
Through his/her leadership, the Site Engagement Leader is accountable for developing, managing and overseeing long-term and strong relationships with strategically and operationally important sites and institutions. It includes building and enhancing the image and reputation of GSK with sites locally and providing an interface between GSK and the sites to create an optimal clinical trials environment to generate results in a timely manner with high quality outputs.Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure an environmental strategic surveillance and anticipates the legislative and practical evolution of sites and R&D in the country to set up innovative and efficient partnerships.
• Give an operational vision of the future GSK clinical research therapeutic areas and GSK portfolio (collaborating with LOC MED) to key external stakeholders in order to anticipate partnerships and to help them to better prepare the arrival of clinical trials
• Provide strategic input for operational excellence, process efficiency and trial delivery both internally and externally
• Identify and disseminate best practices and contribute to standardization across the LOC / region.
• Contribute to the development of the Partnership Engagement and Excellence in Research known as the PEER network acting as the main point of contact between GSK and sites: in the Network SEL will identify external organizations / institutions and evaluate their interest to build and develop networks with GSK on a local, national or international basis
• Work closely with sites and with all members of the LOC Clinical Operations Department to proactively identify risks to quality and compliance and to develop and implement mitigation plans to address these risks.
• Collaborate, communicate and resolve key operational issues with external partners
• Drive performance, by putting in place mutually agreed KPIs (quality and performance) and organizing periodic review with the different external partners (i.e PEER network)
• Provide feedback to Local Country Medical Director, GMASE COH, Local Medical Affairs Head, LDL Manager regarding the development of new partnerships and follow-up of existing ones
• Can lead / contribute to high level country feasibilities for new TAs and support the local teams with site level feasibilities.
• Responsible for standardizing processes, identifying and sharing best practices at internal cross functional process improvement teams.
• Ensure development, co-ordination and oversight of partnership activities conducted with institutions / sites where high potential of patient’s recruitment, quality of data and technical support exist.
• Develop the GSK portfolio of clinical investigator sites through partnerships to attract more studies in the country

Why You?
Basic Qualifications:

• Scientific’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 3 yrs experience in Clinical Research

Preferred Qualifications – Job-Related Experience:

• PhD, Pharm. D, Master of Sciences Degree.
• 5+ years’ experience in clinical research required, across all phases and multiple therapeutic areas
• Significant experience working directly with sites through roles such as being a Clinical Research Associate, that enables robust understanding of the workings of clinical trial sites
• Solid experience in matrix management
• Optimization of processes experiences
• Good / very good knowledge of local regulations and GCP
• A very good knowledge of the medical environment and organizations to identify the

opportunities to develop efficient partnerships

• A knowledge and experience of project management is required to be able to conduct a project from end to end, ideally using Agile methodologies
• Proven experience to implement change is required to initiate and accompany the change, and to help the local team to adapt themselves to new environments and new Ways of Working
• A successful experience in designing, creating, developing and monitoring new and innovative projects is required to prove the ability to build from nothing and to be creative

• English and French language skills preferred but not required.

Job-Related Skills / Background

• Ability to anticipate the evolution of clinical research and to propose strategic plans
• Ability to identify opportunities, to analyze them and transform them as a project.
• Ability to capture information by active listening and further investigate.
• Flexible thinking with high learning agility and the ability to work efficiently and effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills
• Adaptability and reactivity. Recognizes potential obstacles and works to overcome and/or resolve them.
• Excellent oral and writing communication. Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills with ability to adapt his/her communication to a wide variety of audiences.
• Ability to build strong internal and external relationships through a collaborative and open leadership style
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Ability to take initiatives and decisions, autonomy
• Determination and tenacity to achieve goals
• Acquire and maintain therapeutic area and product knowledge across GSK portfolio.
• Intermediate or advanced level in English.
• Proficiency in MS office tools; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are essential.

SEL is a field based job with at least 50% of the time travelling at sites#LI-GSKWhy Us?GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.GSK is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals to apply to our career opportunities. GSK is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at . Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.Important notice to Employment businesses/ AgenciesGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK’s commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

Expected salary

Location

Mississauga, ON

Job date

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:30:49 GMT

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