Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs - Hematology

Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs - Hematology

The Global Medical Director role is a unique opportunity for an experienced, innovative, and proactive medical professional to facilitate the understanding of the value of our medicines and vaccines, the science behind them and the public impact they can offer.  This is accomplished by developing and implementing the global medical scientific strategic plan to generate insights, shape optimal care through scientific dialogue and education and delivering impact by generating and communicating the evidence and delivering solutions to close the gaps.

The Global Medical Director for Belantamab Mafodotin will work in a thriving team of medical business leaders where people will be inspired to drive towards achieving our goals of getting Ahead of Disease Together and positively impacting patient and population health outcomes globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Thinks globally, while deeply understands priority LOC needs and success measures.  This is accomplished through extensive partnership and collaboration with LOC teams to understand landscape, market value drivers, and timelines for required deliverables.
• Partners with above-country and country colleagues to drive, integrate and prioritise key insights to inform global medical plans and lifecycle strategy.
• Engages across the ecosystem, including R&D, Evidence Generation, Global Product Strategy and country teams to support identification and prioritization of evidence generation needs to close gaps and support the optimization of clinical care.
• Participate and shape the relevant asset(s) medical strategy as a member of the Global Medical Asset Team (GMAT).  
• Leads the creation and implementation of an integrated external medical communications plan which is optimized to deliver external impact and considers all channels (including publications and congresses) and key market needs.
• Partner with Global Product Strategy, Market Access, and core country teams to generate  content of high scientific quality for promotional and disease awareness use.
• Ensures colleagues have a robust knowledge of the relevant and emerging clinical evidence, supporting their training by partnering on the creation and delivery of high-quality scientific materials for both internal and external use.
• Drives excellence in external engagement with key stakeholders (e.g. HCP’s, Patients, Payors and Regulators) globally and in partnership with core countries.
• Ensure appropriate medical governance oversight of all deliverables, inclusive of risk assessment and mitigation plan associated with deliverables/strategies.
• Development of deep subject matter expertise on the product and therapy area as well as the ability to drive proactive strategic planning.

Note: Medical Directors may at times specifically focus on Evidence Generation or Scientific Communication depending on stage of lifecycle and need.

Closing date – 18th April 2024 (EOB)

Essential Qualifications

• MD/MBBS/PharmD or PhD in clinical / scientific discipline related to oncology.
• Experience in Medical Affairs in a local operating company (LOC) priority market, supporting pre/peri launch phases of oncology assets.
• Experience with developing above country medical strategies and asset launches in oncology.
• Experience defining the medical affairs and market access strategy and constructively interact cross-functionally to build brand & project strategy.
• Experience of collaborating with external experts.
• Experience in medical support for briefing documents for regulatory interactions and payor dossier.

Preferred Skills

• Robust understanding of internal and external codes of practice and regulations (certification where applicable)
• Demonstrated matrix leadership in previous roles with ability to build strong networks, manage complexity and cultural diversity.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects, budgets and interactions simultaneously.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, innovative environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient.
• Outstanding listening, communication & collaborative team working and leadership skills, as the role involves interface with a wide range of stakeholders internally and externally.
• General understanding of statistics, safety, regulatory requirements.
• Skilled at simultaneous consideration of scientific data and practical healthcare delivery needs from diverse health systems to optimise medical implementation of innovation.

Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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