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About the Role
The Senior Medical Director, Oncology Clinical Development – Sarcoma, is a senior physician leader providing medical oversight, strategic clinical insight, and a patient-centred perspective across the design, conduct, and interpretation of clinical studies. This role ensures medical considerations, patient safety, and clinical integrity are consistently applied across studies within a programme.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior physician leader within the clinical programme, providing medical oversight and clinical insight across study design, conduct, and data interpretation
- Provide guidance on medical monitoring and safety oversight across studies, ensuring consistent application of clinical judgement and patient safety standards
- Interpret complex clinical and safety data, generating insights that inform programme-level decisions led by the CDL
- Partner with the Senior Scientist and cross-functional teams to ensure medical considerations are integrated across study execution and programme delivery
- Provide senior medical input into protocol development and study design, ensuring clinical relevance and patient-centred design within the clinical strategy defined by the CDL
- Serve as a senior member of the CMT, influencing study-level and programme-level decision-making
- Engage with investigators, Key External Experts (KEEs), and scientific leaders to support external engagement and represent the programme at advisory boards, steering committees, and scientific forums
- Provide medical guidance and mentorship to Medical Directors within the programme, supporting consistency and development of clinical capability
- Ensure consistency in approach, patient safety, and protocol adherence
- Guide interpretation of safety data in collaboration with pharmacovigilance, supporting signal detection, escalation, and benefit–risk evaluation across the programme
- Participate in and contribute to safety review forums (e.g., SRT, IDMC), providing senior physician perspective on complex safety questions
- Ensure medical monitoring approaches are aligned across studies and consistent with regulatory and organisational standards
- Provide senior medical input into protocol development across studies, ensuring clinical relevance, feasibility, and alignment with the clinical strategy defined by the CDL
- Guide clinical aspects of study design and protocol implementation, particularly for complex, high-risk, or multi-study programmes
- Support resolution of complex medical questions arising during study conduct, applying clinical judgement to inform programme-level decision-making
- Ensure consistency of medical considerations across multiple studies within the programme
- Interpret complex clinical data across studies, integrating findings to inform programme-level insights on safety, efficacy, and patient impact
- Contribute to programme-level data interpretation and support CDL-led benefit–risk assessment and clinical positioning
- Guide development of scientific communications, including publications, congress materials, and clinical summaries
- Maintain deep understanding of disease biology, evolving treatment paradigms, and competitive landscape to inform clinical interpretation and programme strategy
- Contribute senior medical expertise to regulatory interactions and Health Authority discussions, including responses to complex clinical and safety queries
- Represent the programme at advisory boards, steering committees, and external scientific forums, providing senior physician perspective on clinical data and programme direction
- Engage with KEEs and scientific collaborators to support programme development, scientific exchange, and external credibility
- Lead or contribute to the clinical and technical diligence assessment of business development opportunities
- Serve as a senior member of the Clinical Matrix Team (CMT), influencing cross-functional alignment and programme-level decision-making
- Contribute medical expertise to disease area strategy, integrated evidence planning, and Medical Affairs discussions
- Collaborate across functions to ensure alignment on safety, data interpretation, and clinical positioning across the programme
- Lead or contribute to Oncology Clinical Development-wide initiatives and workstreams
- Provide oversight, guidance, and mentorship to clinical scientists within the programme, supporting consistency and quality of medical input across studies
- Support development of clinical capability within the medical team, including coaching on medical monitoring, data interpretation, and external engagement
- Contribute to talent development, performance discussions, and capability building within Oncology Clinical Development
Requirements
- Medical degree and completion of advanced specialty training, fellowship or country-equivalent higher-level qualification in medical oncology, pediatric oncology or hematology.
- Experience in sarcoma oncology, including leading drug development.
- Clinical and pharmaceutical experience in oncology clinical development, with depth across multiple studies or programmes
- Experience in medical monitoring, safety evaluation, and clinical data interpretation across clinical studies
- Understanding of clinical development processes, GCP, ICH guidelines, and global regulatory frameworks
- Experience operating within cross-functional matrix teams and contributing to complex clinical and programme-level decisions
- Deep expertise in soft tissue sarcoma and osteosarcoma, including experience leading or supporting clinical development programs across early and/or late-stage clinical studies.
- Strong scientific communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence internal and external audiences
- Deep experience in oncology clinical development across multiple studies or programmes, including Phase I–III
- Experience contributing to or leading aspects of regulatory interactions (e.g., IND, scientific advice, NDA/MAA)
- Demonstrated experience engaging with KEEs, advisory boards, and scientific communities in oncology
- Track record of scientific publications and congress presentations
- Deep understanding of oncology disease biology and the evolving treatment landscape across solid tumours and/or haematological malignancies
- Experience contributing to clinical and technical diligence for business development opportunities
Skills
- Clinical Data Interpretation
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Clinical Trial Designs
- Clinical Trials Monitoring
- Digital Fluency
- Drug Development
- Drug Regulatory Affairs
- Evidence Based Decision Making
- Executive Presence
- Hematology and Oncology
- Learning Agility
- Matrix Leadership
- Real World Evidence (RWE)
- Scientific Presentations
- Strategic Direction
Location
- Stevenage, UK
- Cambridge, UK
- Zug, Switzerland
- London HQ, UK
- PA, US
- MA, US
Work Type
- On-site office presence (minimum of two days a week)
- Agile working culture
Experience Level
- Senior
- Senior physician leader
Education Level
- Medical degree and completion of advanced specialty training, fellowship or country-equivalent higher-level qualification in medical oncology, pediatric oncology or hematology.
Salary/Compensations
- $284,250 to $473,750 (US)
- Annual bonus and eligibility to participate in share based long term incentive program (US)
Benefits
- Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- Retirement benefits
- Paid holidays
- Vacation
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
About the Company
- GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
- We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.
- We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines.
- We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
- Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
Equal Opportunity
- GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.