CRDC UK Network Operational Director | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 28 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,179 - £125,637 per annum / pro rota for part time hours |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE5 4PW |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7431235/358-7431235-COR |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to impact the international and national landscape of commercial clinical trials, transform and supercharge the way UK deliver commercial research.
A Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) Network is being established to coordinate activities across a UK network of CRDCs, providing national leadership, alignment and strategic engagement, and enhancing the capacity and efficiency of commercial research delivery across the centres.
This Network, engaging and coordinating all CRDCs across the UK, will be hosted and led by Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust.
You will join us as at the beginning as we establish this UK-leading, person-centred Network, ensuring equitable access, diverse recruitment, and efficient, gold-standard, aligned trial delivery. We will prioritise improving NHS and patient access to trials and accelerating approval of innovations, working closely with the devolved nations and existing national NIHR and commercial clinical trials infrastructure.
Interviews will take place between the dates 6th - 17th October 2025.
Network activities will be organised into nine Themes overseen by a matrix of CRDC Directors and specialists drawn from the Network. Activities will be led and coordinated by the Network Operational Management Team led by the Network Operational Director.
This is a key role as a senior leader and ambassador for the CRDC UK Network, contributing to the ongoing development of the vision, direction and strategic aims for the CRDC UK-wide approach and translating this into deliverable priorities.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
The CRDC UK Network Operational Director will be responsible for the overall delivery and management of the CRDC UK Network, providing industry with a high quality, professional, coherent, efficient and standardised approach to bespoke commercial clinical trials across the four nations CRDC sites.
The Network Operational Director will also co-develop and lead national programmes of work on behalf of the CRDC UK Network Senior Management Team and act as the central point of contact for industry sponsors.
Although predominantly remote working, it is anticipated that the postholder will travel to the Network host and CRDC sites (or their partner institutions), and regular travel to Network in-person meetings will be expected and supported.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Sep 2025