Senior Trials Manager

As a Senior Trial Manager you will lead and motivate a team of trial managers and trial administrative staff responsible for the day-to-day conduct of complex trials and maintain an overview of the current status and progress of trials within the portfolio. You will be responsible for portfolio staff management, development and appraisal, arranging training as appropriate in consultation with senior staff as well as ensuring that the roles and responsibilities of the staff working within the portfolio are correct and current. You will co-ordinate the design and development of the MONITOR2 platform study including work with a diverse range of stakeholders (patients, rheumatology teams, methodologists, programmers). You will also advise on trial management, feasibility and regulatory content of trial proposals in line with standard operating procedures, relevant guidelines and applicable regulations and legislation.

You hold a degree in a relevant biomedical or associated subject along with experience working in academic trial management. You will have experience of working with patient partners in PPI sessions/focus groups and have an in-depth working knowledge of existing UK clinical research structures, GCP and regulatory and ethical systems. You will hold a project management qualification or equivalent experience and have extensive experience in setting up and managing clinical trials (either drug, non-drug or complex interventions). It is desirable that you have experience of QA systems, trial audit and monitoring applicable to clinical research, including development of written procedures for clinical trials run to high levels of GCP.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Trial Manager, to join the Botnar Research Centre working in a team including Associate Professor Laura Coates (Chief Investigator), Trial Managers and Research Fellows. The PsA team, led by Laura Coates, is one of a number of clinical research teams based in the Botnar Research Centre and linked to the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU). The PsA team focuses on clinical studies in psoriatic arthritis and other types of inflammatory arthritis. The team includes a number of research fellows and clinical trial staff leading five current interventional studies, with links to the Oxford Clinical Trials Unit (OCTRU).