Commercial Research Delivery Centre Manager | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

A unique opportunity to spearhead the South London NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust (GSTT) as the hub and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) and Oxleas NHS Trust (Oxleas) as the spokes. The funding for the 21 CRDCs and the CRDC Netwwork was aprt of the £400M invested by industry into Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing, Access and Growth (VPAG). VPAG is a five-year agreement (2024–2028) between the UK government, NHS, and pharmaceutical industry to cap branded medicine expenditure, ensure patient access to new treatments,

This is a great opportunity for an experienced, strategically minded and goal-orientated Senior Research Manager to manage the South London NIHR CRDC and grow the portfolio of commercial research delivered across GSTT, LGT and Oxleas.

**Please note if you previously applied for this role, within the last 3 months, and were unsuccessful, you are ineligible to apply again**

Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) from GSTT.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced, strategically minded and goal orientated Research Manager to operationally lead and manage the South London CRDC and grow the portfolio of commercial research delivered across Guys and St Thomas, Lewisham and Greenwich and Oxleas Trusts.

**Please note if you have previously applied for this role within the last 3 months and were unsuccessful we would ask you to refrain from applying again**

The post holder will be responsible for managing the GSTT hub and embedding best practice management and delivery of commercial research into the CRDC LGT and Oxleas NHS Trust (Oxleas) spokes and supporting the existing and dedicated CRDC staff in delivering a growing portfolio of commercial research.

In this exciting new role, the post holder is required to travel to, and work within, multiple clinical sites. There is a regular requirement to travel to sites throughout the south London area, in particular, GSTT, LGT and Oxleas. It is anticipated that the post holder will be either on site at main GSTT hub (Guy’s Hospital, SE1 9RT) or at the spokes as determined each day.

GSTT was awarded £4.7m for the NIHR South London Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) to build a high-performing centre delivering commercial research studies across South London. A hub and spoke model has been designed and built with GSTT as the hub and the partner NHS Trusts LGT and Oxleas forming the spokes with the objectives of growing the number of commercial trials and recruitment to trials across South London while also building capability and capacity in LGT and Oxleas. The next stage will build to extend the hub and spoke model to include other hospitals across South London, Perimary care and the community.

Strategic and Centre Management

· To play an integral role in the development, implementation and review of the South London NIHR CRDC strategy in conjunction with the CRDC director and deputy directors

· Act as an ambassador for the South London CRDC both locally within GSTT, Oxleas and LGT as well as nationally through the CRDC network and relevant meetings and events related to commercial research.

· Oversight of relevant commercial research delivery at the Hub site at Guys Hospital working closely with research teams and infrastructure to deliver a financially sustainable portfolio of commercial research.

· § In collaboration with other R&D trial delivery teams, provide operational oversight (including infrastructure, quality management, user and stakeholder management of the late phase commercial trial facility and CRDC hub

· Support the research leadership and management at LGT and Oxleas in developing the capability and capacity to deliver a growing portfolio of commercial research.

Business Planning and Budget Management

· Lead on the development of a robust financial plan, income generation and cost recovery system for the CRDC hub and support to the same within the CRDC spoke sites for relevant commercial research activity.

· Responsible for management of the CRDC hub and spoke budget ensuring income capture, adherence to agreed budget plans, identifying savings and costs reduction in conjunction with the relevant Research Management Accountants/Financial Analysts at both GSTT and partner spoke sites to ensure budgets are up to date and accurate, adjusting where required.

· Responsible for defining and developing the infrastructure required to deliver the whole of the portfolio of studies working closely with other RDMs within the LCRN, the LCRN Chief Operating Officer, providers of NHS services and with the NIHR CRN National Coordinating Centre

· Develop and maintain close working relationships with the KHP Clinical Trials Office to instil similar processes and practices for costing of trials utilising NCVR, capacity and capability review and green lighting of commercial clinical trials at the CRDC spoke sites

Trial Portfolio Delivery

• Responsible for ensuring resources are in place for local delivery of portfolio studies, working with CRN and other colleagues

· Responsible for the development of key performance indicators and metrics to ensure accurate reporting of activities to the CRDC Directors, GSTT R&D, CRDC partner research leadership and executive management, and the NIHR.

· Compile reporting and performance documents as required by NIHR for the CRDC award.

· Oversight and management of all aspects of the CRDC portfolio, with a particular focus on delivery to time to target of commercial research studies

· Support negotiation and advise sites of the spoke sites of trial requirements

Staff Management and Leadership

· To act as line manager for the Business Development Manager and be responsible for supervision and ensuring professional and personal development is met through effective appraisals

This advert closes on Sunday 31 May 2026