Associate Director, Local Delivery Lead/Local Trial Manager

About this role

Business Introduction 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

Position Summary Would you like to be part of GSK’s emerging clinical leadership, with an opportunity to accelerate clinical operations on a national scale? If so, this could be an excellent opportunity to explore.

The Associate Director, Local Delivery Lead/Local Trial Manager provides end‑to‑end leadership for US clinical study delivery, serving as the primary operational link between global study teams and local US operations. It is accountable for achieving recruitment (including patient representation), timelines, budget, quality, and regulatory compliance while leading a highly matrixed, cross‑functional team of internal stakeholders, vendors, and investigative sites. The role drives proactive risk management, continuous improvement, and high‑quality decision‑making while acting as a trusted leader, coach, and GCP subject‑matter expert.

Responsibilities This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following. • Leads the local study team consisting of US clinical operations team members, cross functional experts (medical, regulatory, supply logistics, finance, legal, etc.), vendor staff and external clinical site staff involved in study preparation and delivery, providing both matrix leadership and project management of study activities within the United States.    

• Serves as the operational point-of-contact between the central GSK study team and US study team. Collaborate closely with local medical and regulatory affairs staff to align local medical and scientific requirements, IND/GCP/ICH guidelines,

• Accountable for delivery of a portfolio of studies to recruitment targets, patient representation targets, time, budget and quality expectations as defined in the clinical development plan and study protocol as well as in local regulations.

• Acquires and maintains an appropriate level of knowledge on a disease area(s), aligned protocols, pathology of disease area, competitive landscape within the US, local treatment guidelines and local health care system requirements.  

• Demonstrates the ability to leverage AI and digital tools to solve complex problems, streamline processes, improve decision-making, and enhance efficiency for both individual work and broader team operations.

• Proactively identifies, resolves, and/or escalates risks and issues that may impact the portfolio/disease area providing effective troubleshooting and problem‑resolution support to ensure efficient and productive portfolio execution.

• Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and responsibilities of increased scope and complexity.   

• Has the curiosity to understand the why and the courage to challenge the how.

• Excellent matrix leadership skills, promoting motivation and empowerment of others in order to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives.

• Recognizes and reacts to changes that impact a study and/or program and has the skill set to assess the appropriateness of protocol/plans in the local environment.   

• Provides timely feedback to team members to support performance and development needs.

• Stakeholder management skills required as the role includes interactions with internal senior leadership and external clinical site staff.

• Demonstrates track record in quality decision-making and problem resolution. Able to set and manage priorities, resource and performance targets of local study deliverables. As required, assists with audits/inspections of local clinical operations department and study / sites in the US.   

• Takes a leadership role in standardizing processes, identifying and sharing best practices in support of continuous improvement. Represents local/regional clinical operations on global and cross functional initiatives. May serve in a subject matter expert (SME) capacity locally/globally.   

• Continuously develops knowledge in the areas of GCP, internal company guidelines, SOPs, new monitoring, site and project management skills and capabilities. Serves as an expert in ICH GCP and GSK written standards

Why You?

Basic Qualification We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals • Bachelor’s degree: BA or BS

• 7+ years’ experience as a clinical trial manager/local delivery lead managing studies and at least 4 of the years managing Medicines trials.

• Must have Phase I-III Medicines trial experience in Respiratory, Immunology and/or Inflammation. Solid operational knowledge of clinical research with experience in all stages of study lifecycle (start-up, recruitment and close out) and understanding of R&D and drug development process.

• Experience with leading and managing multiple complex design studies

Preferred Qualification If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus • Master of Science, PhD or equivalent coupled with previous project management experience.

• Effective problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills in a matrix environment

• Strong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to work efficiently and effectively in a dynamic environment. Works in an environment that is constantly evolving with new processes and systems, in

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