Senior Director, Clinical Sciences Lead – Oncology

GlaxoSmithKline; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company is seeking a Senior Director, Clinical Sciences Lead for their Oncology Clinical Trial Medical Review team in Mississauga. The role involves strategic leadership, mentorship, and operational oversight of a team of Clinical Scientists. The ideal candidate will have an advanced life science degree and substantial experience in oncology clinical trials with proven leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in pharma including oncology clinical trials.
• Proven experience in managing and mentoring high-performing teams.
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Clinical Scientists and oversee their activities.
• Ensure alignment of medical review processes across oncology studies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless integration in clinical workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in life science

Job description

Site Name: Mississauga Milverton Drive, Warsaw Rzymowskiego 53
Posted Date: Jul 23 2025

The Senior Director, Clinical Sciences Lead, Oncology Clinical Trial Medical Review Team within the CTMRT will provide strategic leadership, mentorship, and operational oversight for a team of Clinical Scientists. This role will manage, coach, and guide a team of approximately 6 Medical Review (MR) Scientists, ensuring their activities align with evolving priorities across multiple oncology studies, programs, and assets. The CSL will also play a key role in standardizing medical review processes across the Oncology portfolio, while fostering collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure high-quality and efficient data review. This position reports to the Executive Medical Director, CTMRT Lead.

This role will give YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

Team Leadership and People Management

• Act as the single point of accountability for the day-to-day oversight of the CTMRT Scientists’ activities, ensuring alignment with shifting priorities and timelines across multiple studies and programs.
• Recruit, hire, and onboard new team members, ensuring a high-performing, well-supported team.
• Provide ongoing mentorship, coaching, and professional development for direct reports, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.
• Conduct regular staff meetings, 1:1 check-ins, and performance reviews to ensure alignment with team and organizational goals.

Operational Oversight and Resource Management

• Oversee and coordinate the activities of MR Scientists across multiple studies, ensuring efficient and effective medical review processes.
• Collaborate with the CTMRT Lead to assess resource needs and allocate CTMRT Scientists flexibly to meet study demands, including data cuts, interim analyses, and database locks.
• Maintain a dynamic view of the Oncology portfolio, ensuring medical review activities are aligned with study conduct and analysis timelines.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Oncology Clinical Development Leads (CDLs and CSPLs) to ensure seamless integration of medical review processes into clinical development workflows.
• Liaise with Study Physicians, Clinical Scientists, Patient Safety, Data Managers, Statisticians, and Programmers to standardize clinical trial processes, including CRF designs, data entry guidelines, and table/figure/listing (TFL) structures.
• Work closely with the Oncology Standards Team to implement lessons learned and drive standardization of medical review processes across the Oncology portfolio.

Medical Review Process Improvement

• Collaborate with the CTMRT Lead to develop and implement innovative, standardized approaches to medical review that can be applied across studies and programs.
• Participate in iterative, in-stream, standardized data quality review processes to ensure data accuracy and completeness, applying clinical judgment as needed.
• Contribute to the interpretation of clinical trial data analyses and support the development of clinical study reports.

Strategic Leadership

• Lead or participate in Oncology Clinical Development-specific workstreams or initiatives to drive organizational goals.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Advanced degree in a life science discipline or equivalent experience in clinical development.
• 5 years’ experience in pharma to include oncology clinical trials, including data review and analysis.
• Proven experience in managing and mentoring high-performing teams, with a focus on professional development and team culture.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and drive standardization across complex portfolios.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Deep understanding of clinical trial design, data management, and statistical analysis in oncology.
• Experience in process improvement and standardization within clinical development.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and guidelines for oncology clinical trials.

Why GSK?

Our values and expectationsare 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:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.
• Building a resilient organisation. Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

*This is a job description to aide in the job posting, but does not include all job evaluation details.

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