Latest Cancer Therapy Jobs

Senior Director, Portfolio Integration Lead

Leads scientific and strategic integration across multiple oncology development programmes, ensuring alignment with disease biology, biomarker strategies, and clinical innovation. Acts as a cross-asset expert, shaping portfolio-level decision-making and advancing trial design through emerging technologies like AI. Works closely with Clinical Development Leads and senior governance to drive coherent, efficient development across GSK’s oncology pipeline.

GSK

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Director, Portfolio Integration Lead

This role involves providing scientific leadership across GSK’s oncology portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment and integration of multiple clinical development programmes. The Senior Director will drive innovation in trial design, biomarker strategies, and data-driven decision-making while collaborating with cross-functional teams and external experts. The position focuses on advancing cancer treatments with high unmet need through a pan-asset, disease-level perspective.

GSK

Hybrid Permanent

Executive Director, Strategy, Oncology R&D

This role involves owning and driving the global Oncology R&D strategy, setting priorities for the senior executive team, and transforming the approach to deliver impact for patients. The Executive Director will lead the creation of comprehensive therapeutic area strategies, provide strategic recommendations to senior leadership, and collaborate across functions to drive innovation and impact.

AstraZeneca Cambridge, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Executive Director, Strategy, Oncology R&D

This role involves crafting and driving the global Oncology R&D strategy, integrating clinical, scientific, and commercial insights to shape portfolio priorities. You will advise senior leadership, optimize investment decisions, and collaborate across functions to deliver high-impact strategic outcomes.

AstraZeneca United States US$270,222 – US$405,332 pa

On-site Permanent

Senior Scientist, Translational PKPD

As a Senior Scientist in Translational PKPD Modeling & DMPK, you will apply your expertise in PKPD modeling and simulation to advance cancer biology understanding and accelerate drug discovery. You will provide specialist modeling input into pre-clinical projects, develop PKPD models, predict human dosing, and contribute to early clinical trials. This role involves cross-functional collaboration, strategic decision-making, and enhancing AstraZeneca’s translational research through publications and presentations.

AstraZeneca Cambridge, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Senior Global Medical Director Oncology

This role involves leading the global medical strategy for a lung cancer asset, working with cross-functional teams to translate scientific insights into practical patient impact. Responsibilities include chairing a global medical team, managing external partnerships, and ensuring scientific quality and compliance.

GSK Switzerland

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Global Medical Director Oncology

This role involves leading the global medical strategy for a lung cancer asset, working with cross-functional teams to translate scientific insights into practical patient impact. Responsibilities include chairing a global medical team, managing partnerships with academic centers, and ensuring scientific quality and compliance.

GSK

On-site Permanent

Principal Scientist

This role involves leveraging cutting-edge computational approaches to understand and treat cancer. You will analyze and integrate multi-omics and clinical data to characterize disease heterogeneity, model disease evolution, and investigate treatment response. Collaboration with experimental and clinical teams is key to translating complex data into actionable insights for drug discovery.

GSK Stevenage, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Director, Oncology Business Planning Lead

Currently looking to identify aDirector Business Planning to join the Business Planning Operations and Transformation (BPOT) team. They have a pivotal role within the Global Oncology and Hematology Business Unit (OBU) in helping to achieve our bold ambition of eliminating...

AstraZeneca Cambridge, United Kingdom

Senior Scientist (Synthetic Chemistry)

This role involves designing and synthesizing complex small molecules for Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) within a multidisciplinary oncology research team. The scientist will develop novel payloads and linker-payload architectures using advanced organic synthesis techniques, supporting early drug discovery. Emphasis is on lab-based innovation, data sharing, and contributing to high-impact therapeutic development in cancer.

AstraZeneca Cambridge, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Senior Global Medical Director Oncology

This role involves leading the global medical strategy for a lung cancer asset, working with cross-functional teams to translate scientific insights into practical patient impact. Responsibilities include chairing global medical teams, managing external partnerships, and ensuring scientific quality and compliance.

GSK US$241,500 – US$402,500 pa

On-site Permanent

Senior Global Medical Director Oncology

This role involves leading the global medical strategy for a lung cancer asset, working with cross-functional teams to translate scientific insights into practical patient impact. Responsibilities include chairing a global medical team, managing external partnerships, and ensuring scientific quality and compliance.

GSK US$241,500 – US$402,500 pa

Remote Permanent

Associate Principal Scientist – Peptide Development Chemistry - Pharmaceutical Sciences (PS)

This role involves leading the development and manufacture of peptide-containing drug substances, with a focus on complex peptide and peptide-conjugate projects within early clinical phases. The scientist will drive CMC strategies primarily through external partnerships with CDMOs, provide technical leadership, and mentor colleagues. The position emphasizes innovation in peptide chemistry, cross-functional collaboration, and advancing AstraZeneca’s scientific reputation through external engagement and publication.

AstraZeneca Macclesfield, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Feasibility and Recruitment Lead

This role involves leading UK feasibility and recruitment for cutting-edge cell therapy studies, translating scientific insights into actionable plans. Responsibilities include guiding end-to-end feasibility, collaborating with global stakeholders, and developing recruitment strategies to ensure timely and effective patient access to trials.

AstraZeneca Cambridge, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Director, Immunotoxicology, Immune Safety

This role involves leading the immunotoxicology strategy across AstraZeneca's BioPharma and Oncology portfolios, guiding the design and execution of experimental strategies to assess and mitigate immune-related toxicities. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, influence project direction, and build a high-performing team in a highly collaborative and innovative environment.

AstraZeneca Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent