Associate Director - Study Delivery

Site Name: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower Posted Date: Feb 20 2023 Key Responsibilities : Lead the India Study Delivery Team to execute VEO studies with high quality to schedule and budget. Serve as escalation point for the Study Delivery Leads (SDLs) to raise and assist with study execution issues and risks Lead SDL team to deliver VEO studies within TAs - Carefully weigh the priority of activities and direct team accordingly Plan, allocate, review and organize staff assignments. Provide leadership, coaching, guidance as well as training and staff development opportunities. Responsible for hiring and performance management process. Lead a more complex study/ studies as Principal SDL additionally Lead study execution, tracking and management of assigned studies – both assigned to the team of SDLs and individually. The incumbent is the operational team leader for VEO sponsored research study teams with overall accountability to the VEO scientist for study implementation and end to end study operational excellence from concept to publication/submission. Coordination of full feasible Study Protocol Ensure timely delivery of study documents. Lead vendor selection and contractual agreements Lead escalation and resolution of operational issues Work directly with VEO scientists to ensure effective planning and ensuring all studies conducted comply with GSK SOPs. Manage, in collaboration with Study Delivery Associates (SDA) and Procurement, RFP, proposal, purchase order requesting and contract execution aspects of the activities and liaise with vendors Ensure activities are registered correctly in GSK enterprise systems, in collaboration with central business groups supporting those systems and processes and with other members of VEO Business Operations Manage, in collaboration with SDAs and other members of VEO, end to end documentation needs and processes for the activities Prepare for audit of VEO activities Ensure that VEO activities remain compliant with relevant GSK procedures, remaining up to date with all relevant training and seeking learnings and best practice from other GSK teams and external organisations, to develop best practice and innovation in study operations Maintain regular interaction with all study team members to ensure issues / risks / successes with study delivery are reviewed and/or shared as they occur. Drive innovative approaches to study delivery through external facing advances in technology and sciences Supporting technical and leadership development of Study Delivery staff via mentoring and coaching. GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. 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