# Clinical Development Lead

**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

We are seeking a Clinical Development Lead to join GSK's Respiratory, Immunology & Inflammation Research Unit. As a Clinical Development Lead, you will provide clinical and scientific leadership to clinical and translational studies or programs for asset-level projects. You will contribute to the assessment of potential mechanisms and targets, target validation programs, life-cycle expansion, and innovative clinical development opportunities.

The Respiratory, Immunology, and Inflammation Research Unit (RIIRU) focuses on leveraging immune science to address underlying organ dysfunction and disease. We are a diverse team of industry-leading experts who channel our passion for scientific exploration into true value for patients and GSK.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support alignment of translational and clinical plans and study designs with project strategies to ensure quality design and execution of the CDP.

- 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.

**Requirements:**

- Medical Degree

- Completion of a formal postgraduate clinical training, clinical residency or specialty training in Internal Medicine, Pathology, etc.

- 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.

- Ability to apply clinical judgement to support study design, patient safety, and real-time medical decision-making within a structured clinical development framework.

- Experience operating effectively within cross-functional matrix teams in a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or academic clinical trial environment.

- Strong scientific communication skills, with the ability to translate clinical data into clear insights for internal and external audiences.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Completion of advanced specialty training, fellowship or country-equivalent higher-level qualification leading to recognition as a medical specialist through formal certification, board certification, or country specific professional designation.

- Robust knowledge of pulmonary hypertension research priorities, public health needs, competitor landscape, clinical practice trends and treatment guidelines evolution highly preferred.

- Experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology clinical development across early phase studies.

- Clinical experience in relevant specialty and/or relevant therapeutic areas, with direct exposure to clinical research or drug development in industry or postgraduate work.

**Benefits:**

- Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)

- Retirement benefits

- Paid holidays

- Vacation

- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave

- Annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share-based long-term incentive program

## Skills

### Required
- Clinical Development
- Communication
- Drug Regulatory Affairs
- Evidence Based Decision Making
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- Influencing Without Authority
- Learning Agility
- People Management
- Project Management
- Scientific Presentations
- Strategic Thinking

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