AddressPosted Date: Jun 24 2024
Medical Lead
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Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities
May include, but not limited to:
- Lead, coach, manage & develop their medical therapy team in Specialty respiratory, to help deliver the GSK mission and to ensure achievement of company objectives, including:
- Setting ambitious business objectives and priorities and conducting appraisals to drive performance.
- Creation of a working environment conducive to successful implementation and team development
- Through line reports and broader therapy aligned team members (e.g. Marketing, Regulatory, Quality) generate and implement high quality medical strategic and tactical plans and activities that address patient, customer, and business needs.
- Plan ahead and manage resource and capacity of team based on understanding what needs to be done and when in collaboration with the Medical Head
- Uphold the highest compliance standards & provide authoritative opinion on medical and ethical matters to support colleagues across GSK, enabling the evidence-based use of GSK medicines and compliance with the relevant statutory requirements (e.g. ABPI Code of Practice, Medicines Act, and EU Directives).
- Accountable for review & examination and/or certification of materials under their team's scope and responsible for review & examination and/or certification of certain materials
- Overseeing & writing of GSK's response to complaints from bodies such as the PMCPA or MHRA - this will typically involve engaging with members of the extended brand team e.g. brand manager, regulatory affairs manager.
- Ensure oversight of free of charge supply requests
- Leading the therapy team on ownership & delivery of the medical aspects of the therapy area business plans, including key evidence generation plans, patient advocacy and engagement, working closely with colleagues across GlaxoSmithKline UK (e.g. Marketing, Sales, Health Outcomes) and the relevant above country teams for both launch & pipeline assets.
- Co-ordinating and utilising specialist knowledge with therapy aligned colleagues in formulating and implementing short- and long-term medical strategy for optimal benefit to the patient, prescriber, and GSK.
- Leading medical plan incorporating omni-channel strategy.
- Responsible for delivery of UK Medical Value proposition, through utilisation & implementation of the Medical Planning & Medical Impact frameworks.
- Lead the team to support creation & delivery of the Medical Digital & Technology plan for Omnichannel.
- Deliver high quality & tailored external engagement across the healthcare system & through strategic medical partnerships to develop insight and understanding of the value of our medicines now and in the future.
- Influencing evidence generation strategies in support of UK market needs & support research activities including.
- Knowledge of UK clinical practice, care pathways, key competitors & input where required into study allocation process and implementation of studies in the UK.
- Input into development of local protocols, patient information leaflets (including sign-off of risk/benefit statement) and named patient programmes.
- Proactive input into European Medical meetings to ensure UK strategy is supported.
- Establish relationships and build trust with investigators to answer medical questions, provide relevant training GCP & address issues arising from studies in the UK by supporting the clinical director and clinical study managers.
- To provide input into post study analysis where required.
- Knowledge of UK clinical practice, care pathways, key competitors & input where required into study allocation process and implementation of studies in the UK.
- Identify opportunities for GSK involvement in activities that support patients and benefit the NHS.
Why You! Required Qualifications/Experience/Attributes:
- A GMC-registered doctor or GPhC-registered pharmacist who is an experienced ABPI final signatory.
- Effective communication skills and demonstrated leadership operating in matrix environments, able to turn insight into action.
- Broad Pharmaceutical industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a team of medical and scientific professionals.
- Line manager experience is preferred.
- Relevant therapy area knowledge desirable but not essential
- A good understanding of the changing UK health care environment, including understanding of health technology assessments and market access challenges in the UK
- Proactive, self-motivated, self-reliant, strategic thinker, With effective organisational, goal orientated planning and prioritisation skills.
- Ability to manage team budget.
Interested in Joining the Team?
Please apply via our online portal providing your CV and Cover Letter.
(Please take a personal copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available online post closure of the advert)
Closing Date: COP 30th June 2024
Location: The role will initially be based at GSK House, Brentford, moving to Central London during H1 2024. Hybrid working applies to this role, with GSK expectation of 2-3 days per week being office based.
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).
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