Senior Trial Coordinator

About the Role
Based within the Blizard Institute at Queen Mary University of London, Bone & Joint Health (BJH) is seeking an experienced clinical trials leader to oversee the operational management of our research portfolio. You will lead a team of trial managers and coordinators, ensuring timely delivery of studies and trials, with particular focus on set-up and closure phases.

Working closely with BJH leadership and the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, you’ll play a key role in strategic planning, approvals, oversight, and regulatory compliance. You will ensure trials are effectively governed, appropriately resourced, and aligned with BJH’s mission to integrate research and care for better musculoskeletal health.

About You
You are an experienced research operations professional with a strong background in clinical trial management and a deep understanding of regulatory frameworks including GCP, GDPR, and UK Research Governance. You bring proven leadership skills, a collaborative approach, and the ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder research environments.

You are confident leading teams, co-chairing operational meetings, and liaising with clinical, academic and regulatory partners. With strong organisational abilities and attention to detail, you thrive in dynamic environments where impactful research improves lives. Passion for advancing health equity through diverse and inclusive research is highly valued.

Join us in shaping the future of bone, joint, and movement health through innovation, discovery, and delivery.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

The Faculty of Medicine and Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science.
The Faculty of Medicine holds a Silver Athena SWAN Award. We are committed to the equality of opportunities and to advancing women’s careers. We have policies to support staff returning from long-term absence, for flexible arrangements for staff with parental responsibilities and for childcare support. As part of the School’s commitment to the Athena SWAN principles we strongly encourage applications from women.

Interviews are expected to be held on Wednesday 24th September. Interviews will be hosted in person at our campus site.

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