Head of Clinical Research - Behavioural Medicine, Mat cover

Behavioural Medicine / Mat cover, 12-month FTC / Remote
Level: Head of function 

The Role

The Team

You'll be:

• Holding PI responsibility for almost all Numan RWE studies , including legal, regulatory and ethical accountability

• Leading development and maintenance of  study protocols, statistical analysis plans, data management plan and all governance documentation

• Overseeing study intervention design and delivery, with a suitable clinical governance infrastructure in place

• Overseeing randomisation, adverse event reporting, protocol deviation management and master file maintenance

• Acting as primary point of contact for any  funding partners on research methodology, governance and reporting

• Overseeing quantitative and qualitative outcome streams, working with data science colleagues on analysis

• Recruiting and line managing project-specific staff, which may include Health Coaches and  research coordinators / intervention designers

• Leading or co-leading peer-reviewed publications from Numan real-world evidence, and driving conference abstracts and presentations at high-impact forums (e.g. ECO, ObesityWeek, UKCO)

• Representing Numan as a scientific thought leader, working with the public affairs and PR teams to increase external visibility and coverage

• Developing and maintaining Numan's clinical research strategy and forward pipeline, with oral medication research as the immediate priority

• Establishing the processes, systems and governance needed to scale research capacity, including study templates, ethics frameworks, data collection standards and publication workflows

• Identifying and prioritising the research questions that best demonstrate Numan's real-world outcomes, and developing proposals to pursue them

• Collaborating with data science, product, clinical and behavioural medicine teams to embed a research-informed culture

• Acting as the internal authority on clinical research standards, and working with the regulatory team to keep the clinical research claims library up to date

• Developing and managing relationships with pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and public health organisations

• Leading the pursuit of external research funding (e.g. NIHR, Innovate UK, industry grants, commercial study partnerships)

• Representing Numan at external research events, forums and steering groups

We're looking for someone who has:

A PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. clinical or health psychology, nutrition, public health, epidemiology, obesity research or a related field)

Experience as a Principal Investigator or equivalent lead on clinical or behavioural research studies, with full accountability for governance, ethics and regulatory compliance

A strong track record of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations in health, behavioural or clinical research

Experience developing and maintaining external research partnerships with academic, NHS, pharmaceutical or funding organisations

Strong knowledge of UK research governance frameworks, including GCP, HRA ethics submissions and ICH guidelines

Experience with a variety of study designs, and the ability to lead complex multi-outcome analysis plans

The strategic vision to build research infrastructure and pipeline, not just execute individual studies

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to represent Numan credibly to external scientific and industry audiences and translate evidence into compelling narratives internally

It’s a bonus if you have:

Experience in obesity, weight management, GLP-1 pharmacotherapy or digital health research

Established networks within the UK obesity research, academic or clinical community (e.g. UKCO, Association for the Study of Obesity)

Experience securing external research funding or leading industry-academic partnership studies

Familiarity with real-world evidence study designs and large-scale digital health datasets

Experience working in a scale-up or commercial digital health environment