Vaccines Senior Medical Lead

The Vaccines Senior Medical Lead within Medical Affairs will be responsible for providing expert scientific capability and leadership while managing a broad range of Medical Affairs activities associated with his or her assigned products and within the Vaccines therapy area.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the cross-functional teams, and above country teams providing scientific/clinical expertise, advice and technical leadership on GSK products at prelaunch or in market by developing and implementing a local, integrated medical strategy and customer engagement plans.
• Accountable for leading external scientific/clinical exchange with the scientific and medical community and to bring the medical voice of the customer back into the organization (includes 1:1 interaction, advisory boards, medical education, congress presentations, publications and congress sponsorships).
• Develop and implement local research strategies to address data gaps and advance the scientific/clinical understanding of GSK medicines.
• Build and leverage high quality scientific knowledge and capability expertise across the enterprise.
• Collaborates with and engages internal and external stakeholders to create value.
• Builds innovative, trusting partnerships with HCPs through the use of medical insights and key evidence generation.
• Lead, develop and implement a local Medical Strategic Plan for vaccines within the related Vaccines therapy area.
• Provide scientific strategic input to the regulatory and reimbursement teams to allow GSK to demonstrate the value of GSK products to achieve optimal product labeling, reimbursement outcomes and patient access.
• Leverage medical and scientific knowledge to ensure that all materials produced are medically and scientifically accurate and in compliance with local and GSK requirements.
• Contribute with scientific input for development of commercial plans, strategies and objectives in order to demonstrate value of GSK products.
• Lead Med Leads and/or MSLs as appropriate, on the capabilities, capacity and performance dimension.
• Support the review of all medical grants and donation requests (including Independent Medical Education requests) to ensure alignment with therapy area strategies.
• Preparing, contributing and delivering medical and product training (diseases, new or existing products of GSK or competitors, etc.) to the commercial and relevant GSK teams.
• Responding to customer inquiries related with his/her products and/or therapeutic areas.
• Providing medical input for the planning and implementation phases of Clinical Trials and/or non-interventional studies.
• Reporting Adverse Events in compliance with local regulations and existing GSK procedures
• Supporting MedInfo Team for responding to literature search requests and if needed, for transferring the requests.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

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

• Have a university degree in medicine (MD)
• 3 and/or more years’ experience in driving and managing the medical strategy at pharmaceutical industry; experience in Vaccines therapy area is a plus
• Excellent command of English (spoken and written)
• Absolute commitment to the highest ethical standards and accountability for individual actions
• Self-starter, proactive, patient-centric approach with vision to shape role
• Proven leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to work as a strategic partner with commercial functions would be considered an asset
• Must possess a good understanding of healthcare environment
• Strong ability to develop timely and meaningful research protocols and study reports
• Proficiency in MS Office Applications
• Excellent presentation and teaching skills and to represent GSK in a professional manner at medical, scientific and public events
• Experience with various types of clinical research studies, including observational studies, will be considered an advantage

Job Posting End Date:

9 October 2024

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.

Contact information:

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