Study Start-up Lead

Site Name: South Africa - Gauteng - Johannesburg

Posted Date: Mar 2 2023

Are you looking for an opportunity to share your knowledge of how evidence generation and research studies are conducted, reported, and published? If so, this is the role for you.

As Clinical Study Management Professional you will be responsible for supporting the end to end delivery of Evidence Generation for marketed products across the classic and established portfolio. You will also work with country study teams to manage budgets, resourcing, and be responsible for tracking funded studies.

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

• Interact and support countries involved in evidence generation activities
• Manage stakeholders and support study teams to drive positive, active, verbal engagement, and written communications
• Work in cross functional business units to build networks with internal stakeholders and functional matrix members
• Work with regional study teams to share and provide guidance to optimize end to end proposals to ensure standards are met
• Work with study teams to help identify solutions to problems and challenges on conduct and report to funded studies
• Coordinate the evidence generation of protocol approvals and tracking
• Responsible for using the product review forum to review and track output meetings
• Attend quarterly cross-business product review forum to develop solutions to challenges encountered across the business
• Support the development and monitoring of employees working on projects for evaluating and reporting purposes
• Deliver new business processes or strategies implemented to ensure operational maintenance and governance of research standards are met and complied with
• Good knowledge of the third-party resource engagement process to ensure compliance is met

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelors degree
• Experience within the Pharmaceutical Industry, clinical operations, and project management
• Experience in study management process of research studies

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience of working on projects delivering to high quality and tight timelines.
• Knowledge of internal/external standards and policies
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to address obstacles and issues with a constructive solution orientated approach
• Advanced level of MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word & Outlook)
• Excellent engagement skills
• Ability to work independently

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, its also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. Were committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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