Are you looking for a role where you can provide medical governance oversight to support the implementation brand plans?  If so, this is the role for you.

As Physician Director you will manage the launch/access to medicines ensuring high quality medical input and insights into the Global Medical Affairs plans and designs as well as drive the implantation of the local medical affairs plan.

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

• Bring critical insight and support the development and implementation of the medical affairs plans for assets while supporting the development and implementation of the commercial plans.
• Responsible for patient safety issues.
• Provide technical expertise and insight into the market access and reimbursement plans.
• Liaison with Patient Advocacy Groups and ensures the global strategies and tactics are being implemented locally while working in collaboration with the global function.
• Responsible for the scientific support of the commercial colleagues in their daily interactions with the external experts.
• Develop and implement an external engagement plan drawing on the global strategies and plans.
• Assess the scientific merits and alignment with the global strategies to ensure funding and follow up on agreed timelines up to publication.
• Responsible for the high scientific standard and compliance with relevant codes, policies and regulations of all medical and promotional activities.
• Identify and solve common challenges and sharing successes and best practices.
• Responsible for training staff on disease area and products.

 Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Medical degree
• Experience in Medical Affairs including launch/peri-launch requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Medical degree in Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology, or Pharmaceutical Medicine
• Knowledge of regulatory/market access and reimbursement requirements
• Understanding of internal and external promotional codes of practice and regulations
• Ability to assess evidence generation needs, review investigator sponsored studies for scientific merit
• Ability to build strong internal and external networks

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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