Deputy Commercial Trials Manager

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

King's College London is seeking a Deputy Commercial Trials Manager to lead the Clinical Trials Office team. The role involves managing commercial clinical trials, ensuring compliance with governance, and supporting researchers and companies in trial administration. Candidates should have a degree or equivalent experience and a strong background in NHS commercial research.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or possess equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience of commercial research set up within the NHS.
• Knowledge of legal, regulatory, and statutory governance of clinical trials.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team on the set up and administration of commercial clinical trials.
• Ensure overall governance and process is followed.
• Provide monthly KPI reports to the Commercial Trials Manager.

Skills

Planning and organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving skills

Attention to detail

Education

Degree level education or equivalent relevant experience

Tools

MS Word

Excel

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About Us

The King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office is a collaboration between King’s College London, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. It was set up to provide a single interface for those wishing to conduct clinical trials within the partner organisations, and to ensure that there are common, efficient processes for the set up and administration of clinical trials.

About Us

The King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office is a collaboration between King’s College London, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. It was set up to provide a single interface for those wishing to conduct clinical trials within the partner organisations, and to ensure that there are common, efficient processes for the set up and administration of clinical trials.

About The Role

We wish to recruit a Deputy Commerical Trials Manager, who will be an integral lead member of the King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office team. The post holder will act as the initial key contact within KHP-CTO for all researchers, commercial companies and contract research organisations wishing to undertake commercial clinical trials within our Partner Organisations and support the set up and administration of a portfolio of commercial clinical trials.

The post holder will lead a team working on the set up and administration of commercial clinical trials ensuring overall governance and process is followed acting as a key point of escalation; troubleshooting issues and problem solving where required, maintaining oversight, responsibility and accountability of team performance and providing monthly KPI reports to the Commercial Trials Manager

The post holder will be required to be knowledgeable in existing local and national processes and will develop working processes and working intuitively to continuously improve efficiency within the department and support with change management.

The post holder will represent KHP-CTO at both internal and external meetings, deputising for the Commerical Trials Manager as required and will ensure robust communication structures are in place

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria

• Educated to degree level or possess equivalent relevant experience
• Experience of commercial research set up within the NHS with a knowledge, understanding and experience of the legal, regulatory, and statutory governance of clinical trials. Including GCP
• Strong planning and organisational skills including the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks as well as develop, implement and work to SOPs
• Excellent interpersonal skills - tactful and able to deal with a wide range of people in an enthusiastic and helpful manner whilst being capable of firmly maintaining policies and regulations
• Problem solving skills - pragmatic and flexible approach whilst maintaining policies and regulations with a proactive approach
• Attention to detail with a commitment to a quality culture with a professional demeanour and high ethical standards
• Strong computer skills (proficient with MS Word, Excel and Web-based applications
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Line management, supervision, or mentoring experience.
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical, clinical research organisation or NHS R&D department
  
  

Downloading a Copy Of Our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Grade and Salary: £53,149 - £62,422 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 115765

Close Date: 05-Jun-2025

Contact Person: Anne-Marie Murtagh / Craig Macpherson

Contact Details: [e-mail] / [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Higher Education

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