Medical Director, Oncology Clinical Development - Hematology

GSK; Baar; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK in Switzerland is seeking a Medical Director, Oncology Clinical Development to lead medical monitoring and safety oversight across complex oncology studies. You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure patient safety and data integrity throughout study execution and regulatory interactions.

The role requires medical expertise, clinical judgement, and collaboration with investigators and external experts to contribute to protocol development, data interpretation, and scientific

Responsibilities

• Lead medical monitoring activities for clinical studies, ensuring patient safety, clinical integrity, and compliance with the protocol and regulatory requirements
• Interpret and contextualize safety data in collaboration with pharmacovigilance, ensuring appropriate signal detection, escalation, and benefit–risk assessment at the study level
• Provide medical input into protocol development, ensuring clinical relevance, patient safety, and operational feasibility within the clinical strategy defined by the CDL
• Participate in safety review forums and governance as required
• Contribute to the development of scientific communications and regulatory documents from a physician perspective

Job description

Business Introduction

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

Cancer is unrelenting, but so are we. At GSK, we are committed to transforming outcomes for people with cancer through innovative science, bold ambition, and strong partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem. We focus our science where it can matter most – advancing care in cancers with high unmet need, grounded in a deep understanding of disease biology and deliberate scientific choices that connect discovery to meaningful impact in the real world.

The Medical Director, Oncology Clinical Development is the physician within the clinical program team, bringing medical expertise, clinical judgement, and a patient-centred perspective to the design, conduct, and interpretation of clinical studies. This role is accountable for medical monitoring and safety oversight, ensuring that patient safety and clinical integrity are maintained throughout study execution.

Operating within the clinical strategy defined by the Clinical Development Lead (CDL), the Medical Director partners closely with the Senior Scientist and cross-functional teams to ensure that the physician perspective is fully integrated into study delivery. The role serves as a core member of the Clinical Matrix Team (CMT), contributing to study-level decisions, investigator engagement, and regulatory interactions.

For more complex or multi-study programs, the Medical Director may provide medical guidance to other physicians within the program and contribute to broader clinical discussions that inform program-level decisions led by the CDL.

In This Role You Will:

• Serve as the physician within the clinical program 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 program-level decisions led by the CDL
• 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 within the framework defined by the CDL
• 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 program
• 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
• Conduct and oversee medical review of clinical trial data, both directly and through oversight of delegated medical review activities
• Interpret and contextualize safety data in collaboration with pharmacovigilance, ensuring appropriate signal detection, escalation, and benefit–risk assessment at the study level
• Participate in safety review forums, including Safety Review Team (SRT) discussions, Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) data reviews, and internal governance as required
• Ensure medical monitoring activities are conducted in compliance with GCP, ICH guidelines, and applicable regulatory frameworks

Study Design and Execution

• Provide medical input into protocol development, ensuring clinical relevance, patient safety, and operational feasibility within the clinical strategy defined by the CDL
• Apply clinical judgement to support protocol implementation, addressing medical questions that arise during study conduct and ensuring consistency with the study’s scientific objectives
• Partner with the Senior Scientist to ensure that medical considerations are fully integrated into study execution, data generation, and operational delivery
• Contribute to the development and review of key study documents, including the Informed Consent Form (ICF), protocol deviation management plan (PDMP), and study reference manual (SRM)
• Provide medical input into clinical data generation activities, ensuring alignment with study objectives, patient safety considerations, and the Clinical Development Plan (CDP)

Data Interpretation and Scientific Contribution

• Interpret clinical data from a physician perspective, translating findings into insights on safety, efficacy, and patient impact that inform decision-making by the CDL
• Contribute to study-level and program-level data interpretation, supporting the CDL’s assessment of benefit–risk and clinical positioning
• Contribute to the development of scientific communications, including study reports, clinical study summaries, publications, and congress materials
• Collaborate with investigators on the evaluation and development