Senior Medical Affairs Manager

Purpose

Is there any greater challenge than getting ahead of disease together? If you are a Senior Medical Affairs Manager enabling healthcare professionals and public health decision makers to bring relevant healthcare solutions to their patients, this is the role for you.

As a Senior Medical Affairs Manager, you will be responsible to bring medical and technical expertise to the medical affairs team, relevant brand teams, and other internal business partners including regulatory, strategic development, and marketing.

Key Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities as follows:

• Support and enable GSK by engaging with healthcare professionals and public health decision makers, providing scientific information, managing projects, and ensuring compliance with standards and guidelines.
• Develop and implement Vaccines Medical Strategic Plan/s and Scientific Engagement activities to lead internal and external (customer facing) medical projects.
• Provide factual, balanced and scientifically rigorous medical and safety information regarding disease areas of mutual interest, GSK products in development and medical information on therapeutically assigned franchise/portfolio.
• Brings insight to the organization by having an in-depth knowledge of the science and evidence for GSK vaccines and other treatment options within their therapy area expertise.
• Provides expert vaccines medical support on all aspects of Marketing, Medical Information and Product Training for LOC’s Healthcare business as required.
• Assists in the development, organization, preparation, and implementation of training for internal and external audiences on disease knowledge and management.
• Identifies necessary local evidence generation activities and serves as the LOC lead of these scientific projects.
• Ascertain high standards of medical and scientific accuracy in all external communication to medical audience and public in keeping with GSK policy and relevant industry and regulatory codes.
• Engages with health-related agencies of the government to understand their needs regarding our products and to contribute to public health planning.
• Reinforces the external scientific image of GSK Pharma/Vaccines Healthcare to various MOH agencies and departments through representation and continuous educational efforts.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Degree in Medicine, PharmD or PhD.
• Minimum 5 years’ experiences in medical affairs.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in medical project management.
• Clear understanding of clinical research methodologies and a demonstrated ability to translate scientific, clinical and safety research studies in an effective credible manner.
• Ability to maintain a command of a large amount of scientific information across multiple products and make a decision regarding clinical evidence of importance.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Ability to work autonomously and independently with time management skills to effectively manage field-based responsibilities.
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation skills with different types of internal and external stakeholders.
• Team player, patient and customer-focused, problem solver with clear focus on result.
• Excellent in written and oral communication skills.

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action – a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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