Start Up Senior Trial Manager, Early Development

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Job Function:
R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:
Clinical Trial Project Management

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for an expert Start-Up Senior Trial Manager, Early Development (ED) to support ED clinical trials in the UK, with hybrid responsibilities split across trial management and Study Start-Up Unit (SSU) activities.

As the business grows the expectation is the position shifts further towards the SSU within the ED environment.

This is a hybrid, office-based role located High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK with a planned move to Maidenhead in October 2026, requiring three days on-site each week.

Purpose:

The role serves as the primary country-level contact for assigned studies, delivering high-quality trial data, documentation and records in line with clinical protocols, ICH/GCP, Healthcare Compliance requirements, SOPs, and UK regulatory and ethical standards.

The successful candidate combines strong trial management experience with UK study start-up expertise, supporting studies from feasibility and start-up through trial conduct, database lock and close-out, as applicable.

Working closely with study teams, sites, vendors and collaborators, you'll help ensure studies are delivered efficiently, compliantly and on time.

The role provides country-level oversight of assigned ED&CP studies, including local trial team coordination, site oversight, monitoring report review, issue and CAPA management, recruitment and data quality follow-up, and use of study systems and performance metrics to track progress.

The role also supports UK study start-up activities, including regulatory and ethics submissions, docum...