Home based /Remote

Through leadership, the Site Engagement Associate Director 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:

• Give an operational vision of the future GSK clinical research therapeutic areas and GSK portfolio to key external stakeholders in order to anticipate partnerships and to help them to better prepare the arrival of clinical trials

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of site networks and business practices and the competitive clinical trial landscape in order to advise clinical teams on study specific site selection or site management strategies

• 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)

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years’ experience in clinical research operations, across all phases and multiple therapeutic areas with a robust understanding of the workings of clinical trial sites

• Experience working in matrix management

• Optimization of processes experiences

• Knowledge of local regulations and GCP

• Ability to travel up to 50% domestically

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• 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 preferred to be able to conduct a project from end to end, ideally using Agile methodologies

• 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

• Ability to anticipate the evolution of clinical research and to propose strategic plans

• Strong analytical and synthesis skills

• Adaptability and reactivity. Recognizes potential obstacles and works to overcome and/or resolve them

• Acquire and maintain therapeutic area and product knowledge across GSK portfolio

• 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

• 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

• 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