Location: QM London
Duration: 14 months
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Trial Manager to join the Department of Bone & Joint Health, in collaboration with the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit (PCTU), within the Centre for Evaluation and Methods at Queen Mary University of London.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in delivering the DIRECT trial. You will take strategic and operational responsibility for trial management, ensuring delivery to the highest standards of quality, regulatory compliance and scientific integrity.
You will oversee trial coordination from study set-up through delivery and reporting. This includes supervising trial coordinators, managing trial processes and documentation, liaising with stakeholders, and ensuring adherence to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and regulatory requirements.
As part of the senior team, you will contribute to SOP development, resource planning, and represent DIRECT at key operational and management meetings.
The role offers opportunities to engage with clinical partners and contribute to impactful research.
About You
You will hold a degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline and have substantial experience managing clinical trials, ideally multi-centre studies.
You will bring a strong understanding of clinical trial governance, including regulatory approvals, ethics submissions and updated ICH-GCP requirements. Experience developing trial protocols, SOPs and training research staff is essential.
You should have excellent organisational and leadership skills, ideally with experience supervising staff. You will be confident working independently, managing priorities and solving problems in complex research environments.
Strong communication skills are essential, as you will liaise with investigators, clinical teams, trial sites and regulatory bodies.
A proactive, collaborative approach, attention to detail, and the ability to drive high-quality research delivery are key.
About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Blizard Institute was established in 2003 and is one of six Institutes within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL. The Institute comprises approximately 360 staff based in four academic Centres and one Public Engagement Centre and supports a combined total of c700 postgraduate research and taught students. The Institute aims to deliver excellence in all aspects of research, teaching and clinical service.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
£44,288 to £51,755 per annum