Trial Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a Clinical Trial Manager to join the International Centre for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer (IReC) at The Royal Marsden Hospital. The role involves managing clinical trials according to GCP guidelines, contributing to strategy, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The successful candidate will be a main point of contact for clinical R&D and assist with audits and inspections. This is a fixed-term maternity cover role until January 2028, offering flexible working arrangements including remote work.
Essential criteria
- Life Sciences (or equivalent) degree or relevant experience
- Recent GCP training
Desirable criteria
- Masters' Degree or other higher-level degree
- Demonstrable /significant experience of working in a clinical trial setting
- Detailed understanding and experience of clinical trials, UK Clinical trial regulations, GCP and regulatory framework
- Experience of trial finances including costing for academic and commercial studies
- Previous experience managing drug (CTIMP) trials
- Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
- Advanced organisational skills and ability to manage multiple projects at various stages of development and organisation
- Excellent communication skills and ability to facilitate collaborative working relationships
- Able to work under pressure, methodical in approach, with effective problem-solving ability
- Competence in research orientated PC software including Microsoft Office packages
- Knowledge of principles for quality management systems
- Knowledge of budget planning and management
- Able to work on both sites and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role
- Willingness to travel within UK and occasionally overseas to attend meetings and conferences
- Education/Qualifications
- Life Sciences (or equivalent) degree or relevant experience
- Recent GCP training
- Masters' Degree or other higher-level degree
- Demonstrable /significant experience of working in a clinical trial setting
- Detailed understanding and experience of clinical trials, UK Clinical trial regulations, GCP and regulatory framework
- Experience of trial finances including costing for academic and commercial studies
- Previous experience managing drug (CTIMP) trials
- Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
- Advanced organisational skills and ability to manage multiple projects at various stages of development and organisation
- Excellent communication skills and ability to facilitate collaborative working relationships
- Able to work under pressure, methodical in approach, with effective problem-solving ability
- Competence in research orientated PC software including Microsoft Office packages
- Knowledge of principles for quality management systems
- Knowledge of budget planning and management
- Able to work on both sites and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role
- Willingness to travel within UK and occasionally overseas to attend meetings and conferences
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 7d ago · Closes in 8d
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Job summary
An excellent opportunity has arisen at The Royal Marsden Hospital to work within the International Centre for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer (IReC) as a Clinical Trial Manager.
With previous clinical research experience, you will work within the guidelines and policies for the conduct of clinical trials, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with the principles of GCP.The successful applicant should have a flexible approach to their duties and the ability to work both as part of the team as well as independently. In addition you will have excellent communication, administrative and IT skills and be supportive and open to new initiatives.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are short-listed for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been short-listed for interview on this particular occasion.
All applicants will be contacted by email via NHS jobs. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts, including their "junk" folders regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow NHS jobs emails.Please note that this is a fixed-term maternity cover role running until January 2028.
The position offers flexible working arrangements, including remote
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