King's College London

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. It is set up 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

The Commercial Trials Associate is part of a busy team providing an efficient and effective study set-up service for investigators, companies and contract research organisations that are engaging in commercial clinical research within the partner organisations. The Commercial Trials Associate will work closely with our research teams and clients and act as a single point of contact for the duration of study set up.

The post holder will work with the team to determine the feasibility of proposed commercial trials, they will review and negotiate commercial trial budgets and contracts in accordance with the National Contract Value Review process including studies where we are the lead site and they will lead on assessing, arranging and confirming local capacity and capability of new trials. The post holder will also be responsible for the line management of one direct report.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

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 portfolio of trials. A self-starter who can work largely unsupervised

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 wordExcel and web-based applications).

Desirable criteria

1.      Experience of commercial clinical trial set up.

2.      Knowledge and understanding of the relevant

3.      contract templates and commercial costing model

4.      Experience of line management

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

ull details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

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 advert. 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.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.