Study Delivery in Clinical Operations – Future Leaders Programme, Belgium – 2022

Education required: Master degree in Life Sciences or related discipline

Language requirement: Must be fluent in Business English

Start date: September 2022

Assessment centre dates:December 2021

Application deadline: We recommend you apply as soon as possible, because we accept ongoing applications and will close this vacancy once we have enough applications.

Want to solve some of the world’s biggest health challenges?

With over 300 years of innovation, we’re a science-led global healthcare company that discovers, develops and manufactures innovative medicines and vaccines. Join us and help millions of people do more, feel better, live longer.

We’re looking for leaders of the future in R&D Study Delivery in Clinical Operations

Help us plan, design and deliver Phase I-IV clinical trials that can lead to transformational medicines.

Are you ready to use your skills to deliver high quality clinical trials? If so, you could be suited to this role! Together we can design, plan and deliver clinical trials across a range of therapeutic areas, delivering medicines and vaccines to our patients.

Develop your career

In Clinical Operations we are responsible for designing, planning and executing the delivery of Phase I to IV clinical trials. If you are a graduate with the passion to take accountability for planning and leading the delivery of a study to ensure it is delivered on time, to a high quality, within budget and all in line with company standards and scientific requirements, then this is a role for you!

You will have the opportunity to operate as a Study Delivery Lead (SDL) and lead the study delivery teams consisting of functional subject matter experts. You will work on complex studies, to grow and develop your understanding of study management whilst being mentored by team members to deliver the study. You will also build close calibrations with other SDLs to share best practices, experience and support process improvement.

On completion, you will have had the opportunity to develop key skills in study management along with gaining experience of working with functional subject matter experts to help you succeed as an SDL.

What will you do?

• Ensure development, review, finalisation and delivery of high-quality key clinical study documents in order to meet study timelines.

• Manage internal and external stakeholders through appropriate engagement and communication.

• Have single point accountability for the operational delivery of clinical study to time, quality and budget.

• Interact with all study team members to ensure all issues, risks and successes with study delivery are reviewed and/or shared as they occur.

• Develop skills to perform innovative approaches to study delivery while gaining hands on experience using state-of-the art platforms and capabilities

• Ensure timely, accurate reporting and disclosure of study results and archiving of study records

• Gain operational expertise in risk management and contingency planning

• Provide leadership at study level to ensure accuracy, quality and the timeliness of operational data updates in clinical systems.

Tailored training – and great career progression

We’ll tailor your training and development to suit your talents and ambition, as well as our business needs, setting you up for success in your chosen niche. The skills you learn on our Future Leaders Programme can be used across many areas of our business and, potentially, many countries. There’s no limit to how far you can go with us – it’s up to you to prove yourself.

You’ll be excited by the thought of:

• Learning about the drug development process

• Enabling medicines and vaccines to reach patients worldwide

• Gaining broad experience across the field of Clinical Research

• Developing your business skills and understanding of the Pharmaceutical industry

• Learning to manage projects and prioritise tasks

• Working across a global matrix organisation

• Gaining experience across a variety of therapeutic areas

You’ll need:

• A Master degree in Life Sciences or related discipline

• To be a motivated and proactive graduate

• A passion for science and delivering medicines and vaccines to patients

• The ability to adapt to change

• The ability to understand and balance the broader business needs with the needs of the specific study

• Highly developed communication skills and the ability to promote effective decision making

• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills

• The ability to build internal and external relationships at all levels in a highly dynamic and matrixed environment

• Strong leadership skills

• Project management skills

• Creative thinker able to demonstrate through study delivery

• Effective problem solving and conflict resolution skills

Our Future Leaders Programme is designed to accelerate the development of graduates who don’t have significant previous professional work experience in the area to which they are applying. Of course, many graduates who join the programme have worked while studying or after graduation. If you’ve already developed substantial experience working in a professional role in your sector, while you would be able to apply for this programme, you may also want to look at direct entry roles in our businesses, as these may be the best way to build on your existing skills and expertise and develop a career at GSK.

Benefits include:

• A competitive base salary

• An annual bonus based on company performance

• Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, savings programmes, time off and childcare support

• Employee recognition programmes which reward exceptional achievements

• Long term incentives through share ownership link your rewards to our longer term performance

• On-the-job experience and formal and informal training and development delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring and formal training programmes

Get to grips with our recruitment process

You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website – Apply now for our Early Talent programmes | GSK

We have changed the way we recruit in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, you can learn more about how our practices have adapted here.

We’re 100% open to all talent

We’re 100% open to all talent – whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients and consumers. And also, because it’s the right thing to do.

You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSKhere.

Need help with your application?

Please email us atEMEA.EarlyTalent@gsk.comand let us know how we can help you. Or email us your number and we’ll call you back. We’ll make all reasonable modifications to support you throughout the recruitment process and we’ll treat all information you give us in confidence. Please get in touch to help us process your application as soon as possible.

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

Our goal is to be one of the world’s most innovative, best performing and trusted healthcare companies. We believe that we all bring something unique to GSK and when we combine our knowledge, experiences and styles together, the impact is incredible. Come join our adventure at GSK where you will be inspired to do your best work for our patients and consumers. A place where you can be you, feel good and keep growing.

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