Associate Director, Local Delivery Lead​/Local Trial Manager

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.

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This is a remote home-based role.

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.

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

• Provides portfolio-level leadership and accountability for US clinical delivery, aligning clinical operations, cross-functional partners, vendors, and investigative sites to drive consistent execution, performance, and strategic outcomes across the portfolio.
• US lung oncology experience
  , including NSCLC and/or SCLC
  , to drive delivery of a portfolio of oncology studies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Partner with local medical, global portfolio, and regulatory affairs teams to align medical and scientific requirements with IND, GCP, and ICH guidelines and support delivery of the regulatory portfolio strategy.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills are essential, as the role requires effective interaction with internal senior leadership and…