Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Imaging

As an Associate Director of Clinical and Translational Imaging, you will lead on strategy and implementation of clinical imaging by driving innovation and delivery across the drug development life-cycle.

This is an exciting opportunity giving you the chance to work at the forefront of drug development.

In this role you will act as a subject matter expert and work with study teams to identify, apply and optimize imaging endpoints across a range of disease areas.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

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We are open to hiring at both a G7 and G6 level.

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In this role you will

• Lead and deliver imaging endpoints from Ph1 to Ph4 assets across Respiratory, Immunology, Hepatology, GI, Renal and Dermatology indications.
• Facilitate selection of optimal imaging endpoints for GSK studies, and application and delivery in multicentre studies.
• Resource the studies appropriately to ensure high-quality imaging data & support initiatives to enable data reuse.
• Assist with developing a Clinical Imaging strategy for addressing GSK's emerging disease areas of interest and adjust the strategy according to pipeline changes.
• Lead on capability development initiatives, including deep analysis of imaging datasets for biomarker development to deliver on internal needs, including disease subclassification, prognostics and treatment response.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• BSc or PhD (or equivalent) in relevant biomedical, life science, medical imaging or related field of study
• Experience in clinical imaging using multiple radiological imaging modalities (e.g. CT, PET, MRI)
• Experience in clinical research working within an imaging CRO, within a large pharmaceutical company, or experience in clinical imaging via a post doc.
• Direct experience in leading and delivering imaging-endpoints within clinical trials (phase 1-4)
• Detailed experience across the lifecycle of multicentre studies delivering standard, regulatory; AND advanced, non-regulatory imaging endpoints across multiple therapeutic areas

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Medical or PhD degree (or equivalent) with imaging experience in drug development
• Clinical radiology experience and deep understanding of the use of clinical radiology imaging modalities across multiple disease areas
• Hands-on experience with clinical imaging in a research or hospital environment, including hands on experience in performing quantitative image analysis
• Experience in operational aspects of implementing imaging in multicentre clinical trials
• Detailed biological knowledge of 1-2 diseases
• Experience in authoring scientific articles and clinical development documents
• Good communication and influencing skills with a demonstrated capacity to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

Closing Date for Applications: 30th October 2025

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