VP, Pharma Clinical Program Delivery

Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street, Belgium, Canada - Ontario - Mississauga, Greater Poland, India - Karnataka - Bengaluru, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, Warsaw
Posted Date: Oct 25 2024

The Vice President of Pharma Clinical Program Delivery will be a member of the Clinical Operations Leadership Team, contributing to the overall running of ClinOps and defining the future strategy as well as contributing to Development Review Boards to support governance decision making for new medicines.

The VP of Pharma Clinical Program Delivery will also lead a global team be accountable for the overarching operational delivery of the entire end to end Pharma clinical portfolio and will ensure delivery of key clinical development plan progression targets, from design through to submission.

The position will own the enterprise study sourcing strategy, in partnership with the Head of Vaccine Program Delivery, to ensure teams have the requisite talent and expertise to deliver the pipeline utilising the internal GSK delivery model or outsourcing to strategic partners. In addition to effectively partnering with Research Unit leadership teams, MDLs/EDLs, Clinical Sciences, Supply Chain, Regulatory, ClinOps functions and other senior stakeholders to embed solutions to optimize operational delivery of development plans and to accelerate cycle times.

Additionally, the VP of Pharma Clinical Program Delivery will enhance relationships with GSK’s strategic partners to improve delivery, productivity, and vendor performance.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic leadership, management and single point of accountability for all aspects of Pharma Clinical Program Delivery worldwide to ensure delivery of key progression targets and optimum alignment with stakeholders.
• Lead and direct a large, global, cross-functional organization of professional and highly experienced clinical staff including all aspects of training and development, performance management, career development, and deployment to projects and work activities consistent with business requirements.
• Embed innovative approaches to drive protocol optimization and to accelerate recruitment and development timelines across the life cycle of a study/asset (with a goal to reduce amendments prior to FSFV and to accelerate start up cycle times).
• Embed the principles of CRO excellence to improve the productivity and quality from our strategic partners.
• Enable close synergies between clinical scientists, MDL, medical writers to complete key strategy documents (e.g. briefing books, CTD/NDA) and ensure timely delivery of high quality submissions.
• Accountable for the enterprise clinical sourcing strategy and responsible to re-assess the strategic partners to ensure strategy is Fit for Purpose and aligns with future pipeline.
• Embed clinical planning as a core capability within the asset lead and SDL community to optimize plans with clear mitigation strategies.
• Create a culture within the organization that values: sharing best practices, fostering sense of community, identification and development of key talent, innovation and problem-solving in the face of an increasingly challenging environment in which we develop medicines, collaboration across the development organization in order to deliver the portfolio and development of targeted metrics against which teams can strive to deliver.
• Understand quality trends/issues as it relates to delivery of our clinical trials and take a more holistic approach to CAPA development and implementation.
• Support the maintenance / regulatory authority inspection readiness for the entire R&D pharma & Franchise clinical portfolios.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Sciences or Business.
• Experience leading global multidisciplinary, functional, line and matrix teams.
• Experience in establishing and executing strategic vision for a global function, ensuring successful project delivery and outcomes across the organisation.
• Experience in clinical operations including study/asset leadership, data and site management.
• Therapeutic area expertise in oncology, respiratory & inflammation.
• Experience driving transformation across organisational changes, digital uplift and accelerating ways of working.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree or PhD.
• Ability to understand and simplify complex situations.
• Project Management skills/experience.
• Effective communication, negotiation, and presentation skills at various senior levels of the organization.
• Collaborative mindset.

Why GSK?

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 organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.