Associate Director, Clinical Trial Diversity Operations Lead

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Jul 19 2023
Significant health disparities persist across different demographic groups evidenced by worse incidence rates or outcomes in many chronic or communicable diseases. In this context, we also see the proportion of women, elderly, pediatric and racial/ethnic minorities included in industry-sponsored trials not reflective of the prevalence of disease in the underlying population. Despite an increased focus on opportunities in this area, industry still fails in highlighting differences in drug metabolism, variability in responses and safety amongst different clinical trial subpopulations. Ignoring diversity in a population is a missed scientific opportunity to fully understand the factors that lead to disease, health, and differential treatment responses. By 2020 minorities will have accounted for over 40% of the US population. With the increased regulatory focus and expectations around diversity, addressing the existing gap is the right thing to do and it is also a scientific and business opportunity to progress differentiated medicines for all patients that suffer the diseases we study.
Your Responsibilities: The Clinical Trial Diversity Operations Leads are responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of diversity and inclusion activities within GSK clinical trials. This includes developing project plans, managing budgets, tracking progress, and ensuring that all projects are completed on time and within budget. The CTD Ops Lead will also work with the Director of Analytics and Director of Engagement to identify, develop, and implement new diversity initiatives.
Additional key responsibilities include:

• Identify and mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with business units, (e.g. Epidemiology, Real World Evidence, Data and Analytics, Ethnopharmacology, Target Sciences) and senior stakeholders across the enterprise (Pharma, Consumer Health & Vaccines) to inform and educate staff on the importance of Clinical Trial Diversity (CTD) and regulatory requirements of enrolling patients across diverse demographics.
• Maintain a repository of best practices on CTD and share across the enterprise.
• Build upon digital efforts underway to identify target areas of need and clinical site metrics.
• Manage contracts and operations of disease state expert panels consisting of physicians, patients, care partners and advocates who will be our partners in the development of clinical trials and beyond - wherever “real-world” input would be beneficial.
• Support patient insights across the Medicines lifecycle through effective networking internally with key stakeholders (Discovery Medicines Lead, Clinical Development Lead, Value Evidence Lead, Global Medical Affairs Lead and Local Country Patient Engagement Lead) and externally with patients.
• Build trust with patient advocacy groups and community organizations with a focus on health disparities.
• Manage project budgets and track progress.
• Communicate with project stakeholders, including study teams, investigators, and CROs.
• Partners with global teams to ensure strategic alignment and appropriate understanding of physicians, patients and patient voice in patient related R&D activities and in the transition of patient engagement activity at the global level to the local one.
• Ensure that all projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Includes effective two-way engagement with patients to ensure that patients receive valuable information and communication from GSK.
• Develop project plans, including timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
• Effectively guide colleagues on most appropriate patient engagement sources and approaches to meet specific business objectives.
• Drive the collaborations with communications agencies, disease-specific patient organisations, patient advocates, and patients not associated with organisations.

Why You?
Basic qualifications:

• Experience with US-based & Global-based Marketing programs.
• Bachelor's Degree
• Leadership experience in a matrix environment with key internal and external stakeholders & partners.
• Experience working directly with physicians & patients to gather insights and understand their perspectives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Empathic and credible leader with strategic thinking and excellent communication skills and gravitas.
• Genuine interest, understanding and motivation to address the multifaceted challenge of Clinical Trial Diversity.
• Experience with global clinical development programs, therapeutic and vaccines are a plus
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Operations Lead to join our team. If you are passionate about diversity and inclusion in clinical trials, we encourage you to apply.
Why GSK?
Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.
These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Sustaining energy and well-being .
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
• Budgeting and cost-consciousness.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.

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 positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
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