"Commercial Clinical Trials Set-Up Manager"

About us

The King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office (KHP-CTO) is a collaboration between King’s College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Established to provide a single interface for those wishing to conduct clinical research 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

To act as a single point of contact for a large and diverse portfolio of commercial clinical trials in set up across the Partner Organisations.

• To ensure feasibility assessments are conducted robustly to King’s Health Partner’s SOPs and to develop systems and processes to increase speed and efficiency of the feasibility process.
• To set up new commercial trials, including the review of contractual and financial terms and assessing, arranging and confirming local capacity and capability
• Responsible for providing an effective, high quality, timely and efficient contractual and financial/budgetary service to investigators, companies and contract research organisations seeking to conduct commercial trials in any of the Partner Organisations
• To review and negotiate commercial trial budgets and contracts in accordance with the National Contract Value Review process and ensure accurate completion
• To review and negotiate commercial trial budgets for contract amendments in accordance the National Contract Value Review process. To review and negotiate ad hoc agreements where needed, including PIC Agreements and ensure accurate completion
• The ensure the set-up and administration of Commerical trials is in compliance with the relevant legal, regulatory and internal governance.
• To work closely with academic, clinical and other staff, at all levels and across the partner organisations, providing appropriate advice and developing effective working relationships to help grow clinical research activity.
• To work closely with contract research organisations and commercial sponsors
• To ensure internal databases are kept up to date to track trial status and document relevant information.
• To provide day to day line management of one direct report. Mentor and develop new and existing team members, conducting annual PDR’s and all aspects of performance management
• To act as an ambassador for KHP-CTO
• To maintain a working knowledge of prevailing regulations, guidance, best practices and GCP standards regarding the conduct of clinical trials
• To actively contribute to the wider KHP-CTO team, working flexibly and proactively

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract for one year.

About you

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

Essential criteria

1. Educated to degree level or possess equivalent relevant experience in clinical trials
2. Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to manage a large and diverse
3. Proficient negotiator with ability to influence and excellent written and verbal communication skills
4. Excellent interpersonal skills – tactful and being able to deal with a wide range of people in an enthusiastic and helpful manner and the ability to build successful relationships
5. Demonstrably high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
6. Practical problem-solving skills and the ability to think analytically.
7. Knowledge, understanding and experience of the legal, regulatory, and statutory governance of clinical trials. Including GCP.
8. Strong computer skills (proficient with MS word, Excel and web-based applications).

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of commercial clinical trial set up.
2. Knowledge and understanding of the relevant contract templates and commercial costing model
3. Experience of line management

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 person specification section of the job description. 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: £45,031 - £52,514 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Job ID: 133885
Close Date: 04-Jan-2026
Contact Person: Alex Hickman
Contact Details: alexander.hickman@kcl.ac.uk