Clinical Development Senior Medical Director - Vascular

For candidates seeking to be located at our Stevenage site, this role will temporarily be based ever, the Company plans to relocate its offices to Cambridge, UK. The location of this role will therefore subsequently change to Cambridge, UK in accordance with timelines to be set by the Company. The relocation is currently proposed to take effect by early 2029.

This role is hybrid. You will be on-site at one of the posted locations at least two days per week. Remote work is available on other days.

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.

You will lead clinical development medical activities for vascular programmes across early and later phase studies. You will work closely with colleagues in clinical operations, translational science, regulatory, safety, and commercial teams. We value clear clinical judgement, collaborative leadership and a focus on patient impact. You will shape clinical plans that accelerate safe, meaningful medicines to people with vascular disease while growing your career and influence n us to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead the formulation of translational and clinical plans and study designs with project strategies to ensure quality design and execution of the CDP. Develop sections of core regulatory documents.
• Generate the data and evidence required to determine a target’s potential efficacy, safety profile, key areas of differentiation and route to becoming a medicine with value to patients in the shortest possible timeframe.
• Define and deliver the clinical pillars of the translational table. Deliver clinical development and study timelines and endpoints, including pharmacology, mechanism and clinical efficacy endpoints, enabling key decision points and go/no‑go criteria for the CDP.
• Establish and maintain relationships with program counterparts in biology, translational sciences, commercial, regulatory, clinical operations, market access, medical affairs and statistics.
• Contribute to the implementation and embedding of strategic initiatives and various organizational initiatives in Clinical Development.

• Provide effective and experienced support and oversight of R&D evidence generation strategy, plan and activities to ensure patient safety and on‑time, in‑full study delivery.
• Contribute to the study team discussions on indication planning and incorporate input from across disciplines (scientific, clinical, commercial, regulatory, stats, etc.) to contribute to vital deliverables including early medicine profile, target validation, translational plans, candidate selection.
• Lead the design of clinical development plans, study protocols and associated documents across all phases of development, reflecting internal and external stakeholder input (e.g., patients, evidence generation, regulators, payors, pharmacovigilance), with an emphasis on early development.
• Bring clinical expertise to regulatory interactions and documents including briefing documents, presentations, addressing questions and responses for assigned studies and programs.
• Provide medical monitoring and oversight of the safety of study participants on behalf of the sponsor during the study, together with pharmacovigilance physician. You will be accountable for medical governance across the project to ensure…