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For candidates seeking to be located at our Stevenage site, this role will temporarily be based at Stevenage. However, 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 currentlyproposed to take effect by early 2029.

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.
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Our approach to R&D

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Development Director to join GSK's Respiratory, Immunology & Inflammation Research Unit. The Director, Clinical Development- Nephrology provides scientific leadership across defined components of study design, conduct, data review, and interpretation within assigned clinical programs. This role operates within the asset-level clinical strategy and contributes scientific depth and rigor to the execution of the Clinical Development Plan (CDP). The Director, Clinical Development partners closely with the Senior Scientist and cross-functional teams to support delivery of clinical studies, ensuring scientific quality, data integrity, and robust interpretation of clinical data. This is a scientific individual contributor role requiring deep clinical development expertise, strong analytical and collaboration skills, and the ability to operate effectively within a complex, matrixed environment. You will work cross-functionally to develop and execute CDPs and translational and biomarker capabilities, within a department that prioritizes understanding mechanism, unmet need and innovative clinical development. In addition, you may contribute (without holding accountability) to the assessment of potential mechanisms and targets, target validation programs, life-cycle expansion and innovative opportunities.

In the Respiratory, Immunology, and Inflammation Research Unit (RIIRU), our enduring purpose is to leverage immune science to address underlying organ dysfunction and disease. We are trailblazing a pipeline of medicines to dramatically improve how we cure and care for patients. We are a diverse team of industry-leading experts who channel our passion for scientific exploration into true value for patients and GSK. We drive the end-to-end R&D journey, fueling early discovery and our mid-stage pipeline while also advancing our late-stage medicines to launch. We are combining field-leading data sets, capabilities and methods with decades of knowledge, to transform our success in how we innovate new medicines.

Working model:

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.

Position Summary

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

• Support alignment 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.

Clinical Development Strategy and Study & Program Design

• Provide effective 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.

• Design 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).

• 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.

• Accountable for medical governance across the project to ensure scientific integrity and overall safety of the study subjects across the study.

Clinical Leadership

• Contribute to leading the Clinical Matrix Team (CMT) for a program. Serves as a clinical point of contact both internally and externally for an indication of an asset or for a clinical study. Represents the CMT at Early/Medicine Development Teams or clinical study at CMT.

• Serve as the Clinical point of contact for an investigational agent (early development) or clinical study for internal and external stakeholders, including regulatory agencies, key opinion leaders, and clinical investigators and with the relevant internal review boards (e.g., Technical Review or Governance) and/or Protocol Review Board.

• Assist with clinical evaluation of business development opportunities

• Stay abreast of advancements in research, clinical trial methodologies, competitive environment and regulatory space in the relevant disease area to maintain GSK's competitive edge.

• Identify and highlights transformational opportunities; where projects can offer highly significant benefit to patients in ways not possible with existing approaches.

• Gather and supports the integration of inputs from across disciplines (scientific, clinical commercial, regulatory) to contribute to clinical components of the Medicine Profile (MP).

• Consistently contribute to solving study and overall clinical development challenges.

• Demonstrate ability to influence others at project, departmental and inter-departmental levels, as appropriate

Creating Innovative Scientific and Technical Solutions

• Embrace challenge as an opportunity for creativity and use new learning and digital tools to create innovative approaches to science and technical solutions.

• Promote an environment for others to generate ideas for improvement and proactively drives innovation, beyond taking advantage of opportunities that arise.

Influencing and Inspiring Others and Managing Conflict

• Consistently achieves desired outcomes through strong influencing skills including understanding others' perspectives, building trust, tailoring communications depending on the audience and using persuasive arguments to gain support.

• Able to consistently inspire others by setting a positive example, communicating a compelling vision, and creating an environment where team members feel valued and motivated.

• Manage conflicts effectively and independently, negotiating mutually acceptable solutions.

Enterprise Mindset, Strategic Thinking and Navigating Ambiguity

• Demonstrate enterprise mindset with effective collaboration across the matrix, able to integrate cross-functional knowledge into decision-making processes and balance team objectives with the wider business goals.

• Analyses, interprets and critically evaluates data, information and digital content to interpret complex information, anticipate obstacles and identify potential solutions.

• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in changing environments, able to analyze incomplete information, identify potential risks and implications, and make informed decisions.

Why You?
Basic Qualifications:
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy or a related field.

• Experience in clinical development, clinical operations or clinical science roles with a focus on kidney disease.

• Knowledge of and experience in the execution of clinical and/or translational studies.

• Experience and understanding of clinical development from early stage through to regulatory submission, including study design, protocol authoring, and data review/interpretation.

• Knowledge of GCP, ICH, and global regulatory guidelines.

• Experience authoring or contributing to clinical study proposals, protocols, Investigator's Brochures, informed consent forms, clinical study reports, and regulatory submissions.

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within cross-functional matrix teams and contribute to clinical decision-making.

• Proven track record of working with investigators, site staff, external experts, CROs, and vendors.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Advanced degree (e.g.MS, PhD, PharmD) in life sciences or a related discipline

• Knowledge of kidney disease research priorities, public health needs, competitor landscape, clinical practice trends and treatment guidelines evolution preferred

• Experience presenting or preparing materials for Protocol Review Boards, governance meetings, or scientific forums.

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements to support registration, including experience contributing to IND, EoP2, scientific advice, pre-NDA/BLA, NDA/MAA, or AdCom submissions.

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Change Management, Clinical Research, Clinical Trial Designs, Communication, Decision Making, Fostering Collaboration, Influencing Without Authority, Leadership, Matrix Leadership, Mentorship, People Management, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $189,750 to $316,250. If you are based in another US location, the annual base salary range is $172,500 to $287,500. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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