Site Start-up Specialist

Site Start-up Specialist

£40,000 - £45,000 plus benefits

Reports to: Clinical Operations Manager

Directorate: Research & Innovation

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Home-based

Closing date: 23 March 2025 23:55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. Please let us know if there is anything about the recruitment process that you would like to discuss, in particular if there are any changes or adjustments that would make it easier for you to apply. Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Recruitment process: Competency based interview

Interview date: W/C 7th April 2025

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We’re looking for a Site Start Up Specialist to join our clinical operations team which sits within Cancer Research UKs Centre for Drug Development (CDD). 

CDD is the world's only charity-funded drug development facility. Our pioneering research is driven purely by the goal to see scientific breakthroughs bring benefits to patients sooner. CDD is the sponsor of early phase and precision medicine clinical trials in oncology agents. Our broad portfolio rivals that of a medium-sized pharmaceutical company, spanning antibodies, cell therapies, vaccines, drug conjugates and small molecules, making this an interesting and dynamic area to work in. It is an exciting time for CDD as we’re expanding our teams to move forward with an ambitious new strategy to maximise the impact of our research to benefit patients.

As a site start up specialist you will work within a multidisciplinary team on a selection of early phase clinical trials. Your focus will be to expedite site/investigator selection and to open sites to recruitment in the most efficient and expedited way possible, fully understanding the sponsor’s requirements and timeline. You’ll be a confident communicator and have the ability to develop good relationships with Investigators, project teams and site personnel to ensure that Cancer Research UK clinical trials are set-up efficiently, to budget and to time. You’ll also work closely with our Clinical Research Associate (CRA) team on monitoring phase 1 and 11 clinical trials, supporting them with monitoring dependent on business need.

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