Job purpose:

Are you looking for a highly visible medical writing role that broadens your project management capabilities?  If so, this Medical Writing Asset Lead role could be an ideal opportunity to consider.

As a Medical Writing Asset Lead, you will lead therapy area specific medical writing projects or programs as appropriate in support of the clinical strategy to meet business and regulatory needs, and potentially leading projects across products.

Your responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• You provide key contributions to clinical strategy, including knowledge and understanding of regional and global regulatory requirements for writing clinical documents like protocols, clinical study reports, clinical study register summaries, common technical document summaries and Clinical Overview among other documents.

• You lead matrix teams in planning and production of multiple clinical documents to support regulatory submissions, working with CROs and/or independent contractors as needed. 

• You ensure global approach for submissions as appropriate, including the use of core global modules, supplemented by local modules as necessary.  Ideally works in collaboration with GRA to ensure business needs are met for new chemical entities and post approval documentation.

• You plan and successfully implement large submissions independently or in conjunction with the Medical Writing Director, effectively recommending methods or innovative solutions for achieving accelerated timelines as necessary.

• You demonstrate an understanding of the interdependences of various contributing functions and manage problems affecting timelines as necessary. 

• You demonstrate an ability to quickly assess complex situations, apply scientific, operational and submission development knowledge to identify and implement effective plans for solutions.

• You propose resourcing solutions for major projects including number of FTEs required and best use of internal and external resource.

• You effectively organize content and argument in complex clinical submission documents, including briefing documents and responses to regulatory questions.  Acts as lead author on submissions.

• You actively contribute to development of training materials for therapeutic area scientists and provide mentoring and/or training on clinical documentation and submission planning to individuals or teams. 

• You have the ability to prioritize effectively and meet multiple deadlines successfully with attention to detail, demonstrating high performance standards for own work and encouraging similar standards across the matrix, ensuring standards are proactively applied across a submission.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills :

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

• Master’s degree in any scientific related field

• Hands on experience with medical writing and clinical regulatory document is a must

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple strategic partnerships

• Experience or exposure to submission documents

• Great sense of leadership in order to guide people

• Outstanding communication skills to interact with different stakeholders

• Fluency in English is a must, any other language is an asset

• Ability to evolve in a matrix environment

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• PhD, PharmD, MPH, MS or other post-graduate degree

• Possesses highly effective communication skills and is capable of presenting ideas and data clearly to a group, including key stakeholders at senior level.

• Demonstrated track record of quality decision making and creative problem resolution that impacts program/project direction.

• Experience analysing complex scientific & operational information and implementing effective solutions.

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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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