Senior Indirect Tax Manager
Clinigen
Senior Indirect Tax Manager
Clinigen
Global pharmaceutical services and medicine access
Clinigen · United Kingdom (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-29
Workplace: remote
Clinigen is a rapidly growing global specialty pharmaceutical services business with a unique combination of services across the pharmaceutical lifecycle. We currently have over 1,000 employees headquartered in the UK with global offices in the US, EU (Belgium, Germany, France), Asia Pacific and South Africa.
Are you looking to shape the tax strategy behind global pharmaceutical services?
If so, we are seeking an indirect tax specialist who enjoys solving complex commercial challenges, influencing business decisions and working across international markets.
The Role:
Clinigen is looking for a Senior Indirect Tax Manager to play a key role in supporting its global pharmaceutical services business. Reporting to the Group Head of Tax, this is an opportunity to combine technical VAT expertise with commercial advisory work, partnering with senior stakeholders to support business growth, optimise supply chains and manage tax risk across multiple jurisdictions.
This is a highly commercial, advisory-led position, with approximately 80% of the role focused on advisory work and 20% on compliance. You'll work closely with Commercial, Business Development, Finance, Legal and Supply Chain teams, providing VAT and indirect tax guidance on new business opportunities, complex cross-border transactions, commercial agreements and strategic projects, including specialist areas such as Managed Access and cell and gene therapies.
Alongside your advisory responsibilities, you'll oversee VAT compliance across the UK, Europe and Australia, manage relationships with HMRC and external tax advisers, lead on audits, and ensure robust tax controls, reporting processes and systems. You'll also lead and develop the indirect tax team, helping shape how the function evolves as technology and AI transform tax processes.
We're keen to hear from candidates with strong technical VAT and indirect tax expertise, experience advising on complex commercial arrangements and international supply chains, and the confidence to influence stakeholders at all levels. Experience gained within a Big Four or comparable tax advisory environment would be particularly valuable, alongside a commercially minded approach and the ability to translate technical tax matters into practical business solutions.
Pharmaceutical or life sciences experience with a recognised tax or accounting qualification is expected.
This is an opportunity to step beyond traditional VAT compliance and take on a visible, commercially influential role within a specialist global pharmaceutical services business. You'll have broad international exposure, work on technically challenging projects and help shape the future of the indirect tax function, with flexible remote working arrangements available.
Benefits:
*27 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays
*Discretionary Bonus Scheme
*Pension contributions 5% matched
*Life assurance 4 x annual salary
*Flexible Benefits Platform with £25/month Company contribution
*Annual salary review
*Independent financial advice service
*Enhanced Employee Assistance Programme
*Shopping discounts with retailers
*Long service awards
*Recognition scheme & employee of the year awards
Interested in making a broader commercial impact with your indirect tax expertise? We'd love to hear from you.
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Clinigen provides pharmaceutical services and medicines to help patients gain ethical access to treatments. It revives niche, hospital-only medicines and offers end-to-end services across the product lifecycle, including clinical trial supply, access programs, and global commercialization. Its three divisions—Clinical Services, Access and Commercialisation, and Lifecycle Services—work with pharma partners to manage regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, and market access across more than 100 countries for major pharma clients. The goal is to combine product revitalization with comprehensive lifecycle management to improve patient access worldwide.
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