# Medical Director, Oncology Clinical Development - GI

**Company**: GSK
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $222,750 to $371,250
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Medical Director, Oncology Clinical Development - GI is the physician within the clinical programme team, bringing medical expertise, clinical judgement, and a patient-centred perspective to the design, conduct, and interpretation of clinical studies.

In this role, you will:

- Serve as the physician within the clinical programme team, providing medical expertise across study design, conduct, safety oversight, and data interpretation

- Lead medical monitoring activities for clinical studies, ensuring patient safety, clinical integrity, and compliance with the protocol and regulatory requirements

- Interpret clinical and safety data from a physician perspective, generating insights that inform study-level and programme-level decisions

- Partner with the Senior Scientist and cross-functional teams to ensure medical considerations are integrated into study execution and delivery

- Contribute medical expertise to protocol development, ensuring clinical relevance, patient safety, and feasibility

- Serve as a core member of the Clinical Matrix Team (CMT), providing the medical voice in study-level discussions and cross-functional decision-making

- Engage with investigators and Key External Experts (KEEs) to support study conduct, scientific exchange, and external representation of the programme

- Contribute to regulatory documents, Health Authority interactions, and scientific communications from a physician perspective

Detailed Responsibilities:

- Medical Monitoring and Safety Oversight: Lead medical monitoring activities for assigned clinical studies, including real-time clinical decision-making on patient eligibility, protocol-related medical queries, and safety oversight

- Study Design and Execution: Provide medical input into protocol development, ensuring clinical relevance, patient safety, and operational feasibility

- Data Interpretation and Scientific Contribution: Interpret clinical data from a physician perspective, translating findings into insights on safety, efficacy, and patient impact

- Regulatory and External Engagement: Contribute medical expertise to regulatory documents and Health Authority interactions

- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Clinical Matrix Team: Serve as a core member of the Clinical Matrix Team (CMT), providing medical leadership within study execution

Basic Qualifications:

- MD (or equivalent medical degree) with board certification or eligibility in oncology, haematology, or a related specialty

- Clinical experience in oncology and/or relevant therapeutic areas, with direct exposure to clinical research or drug development

- Demonstrated experience in clinical trial conduct, including medical monitoring, safety review, and clinical data interpretation

- Strong working knowledge of clinical development processes, including GCP, ICH guidelines, and global regulatory frameworks

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology clinical development across Phase I–III GI oncology studies

- Prior experience contributing to regulatory interactions (e.g., IND submissions, scientific advice, NDA/MAA filings)

- Demonstrated experience engaging with Key External Experts (KEEs), investigators, and scientific collaborators in oncology

## Skills

### Required
- Analytical Thinking
- Clinical Data Interpretation
- Clinical Development
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Clinical Trial Designs
- Clinical Trials Monitoring
- Digital Fluency
- Drug Regulatory Affairs
- Evidence Based Decision Making
- Executive Presence
- Hematology and Oncology
- Learning Agility
- Matrix Leadership
- Real World Evidence (RWE)
- Scientific Presentations

### Nice to have
- Experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology clinical development across Phase I–III GI oncology studies
- Prior experience contributing to regulatory interactions
- Demonstrated experience engaging with Key External Experts (KEEs)
- Track record of contributing to clinical publications
- Deep understanding of oncology disease biology

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