Job Description

Job Purpose

The Early Medical Portfolio Lead (EMPL) plays a critical role in the GSK Global Medical Affairs organisation. You will provide medical leadership, disease area expertise and patient and prescriber insights for the portfolio of early assets.  This is a unique opportunity for an experienced, innovative, and motivated medical affairs leader. The EMPL is expected to help enable better informed decision making for portfolio progression, earlier incorporation of prioritised medical insights into evidence planning, differentiation and launch readiness, and more rapid progress through early and late clinical development.

The EMPL is a VP level position that will partner with the clinical science VPs and SVPs within the Research and Development organisation, as well as with the VP Pipeline & Portfolio Strategy in the Commercial organisation to shape early asset plans and provide medical insights into governance activities. The individual will ensure active collaboration on Research projects (from CS into Ph2) and business development/due diligence activities. A team of EMLs (Early Medical Leads) will report directly to the role, and the individual will develop and maintain medical excellence through talent identification, recruitment, development, and retention, especially of physicians and PhDs to support the pipeline.

The individual and their team will also play a key role in business development activities, providing medical input throughout.  The EMPL will provide scientific insights to validate asset and recommended assumptions during the technical and commercial review process, as well as evaluating the fit within the overall portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Senior Global Medical leadership role for Early Assets as part of Specialty Medicine.
Responsible for leading the early global medical affairs team accountable for developing, driving and executing Global Medical Affairs strategy for the medicines and/or Therapy Area mentioned above in partnership with Global Medical Affairs partners, Global Commercial/Product & Portfolio Strategy (early Commercial & BD), Clinical Development functions and Research.
Provide targeted, focused medical leadership to a diverse portfolio of innovative assets focused within aligned disease areas: provide strategic medical insights into R&D and commercialization strategies; profiling patient pathways; mapping the treatment landscape and how it may evolve in the lifecycle of the asset; identifying gaps and opportunities based on emerging data, competitor activity and understanding of diverse healthcare systems; lead on strategies to shape the future practice of medicine within specified and related disease areas

Contributing expertise in scientific issues related to clinical development, study design, data interpretation and study conclusions.
Deploying strong analytical thinking to quickly assess large amounts of information and distil into key messages and actions.
Providing strategic input opinion based on broad knowledge and close study of disease and emerging external environment, with clear focus on patients and unmet medical need. Engage and collaborate with external experts to identify key medical unmet needs, physician perspectives, treatment landscape and payer priorities.
Connect closely with connections to Local Operating Company (LOC) Medical Affairs, ensuring global medical insights are captured in a timely way.
Providing scientific insights to validate asset and recommendation assumptions during the technical and commercial review process.

Taking accountability for the portfolio medical governance and for approval of materials and activities to ensure they are compliant with GSK Code of Practice, standard operating procedures, and with external industry standards including the ABPI Code of Practice.
Collaborating with partners in Finance and Procurement to manage resources, vendors and budgets and deliver project-critical achievements on time, and to ensure smooth transition to an asset-specific Global Medical Strategy Lead when appointed.
Recruiting/developing high calibre individuals and building a high-performance medical team across all therapeutic areas.
Acting as spokesperson and ambassador for GSK’s products both within and outside GSK as appropriate.
Member of the medical TA leadership team responsible for leading and developing people including recruitment and talent reviews and financial planning in relation to annual budget cycles. 
Driving excellence in Scientific Engagement, i.e. interactions with HCPs, Patients, Payors and Regulators; building a strong external network of key stakeholders.
Ensuring appropriate level of resources, capabilities and processes to ensure medical governance is supported across all the TA medical teams in cooperation with the regions.

Qualifications / Experience

Qualifications - MD/MBBS/PharmD or PhD in clinical / scientific discipline
Scientific and Medical Knowledge - Experience of working across multiple therapy areas
Leadership - Experience in a leadership role in Medical Affairs at country and global level.
Medical Affairs - Asset launch experience, with design and execution of in country and above country strategies.
Clinical - Experience of the required steps to progress a new chemical lead through the stages necessary to allow it to be tested in human clinical trials.
Clinical Development - Experience in the design, development, execution, statistical analysis, clinical interpretation and reporting of high-quality clinical studies.
Agility - Experience of assimilating information rapidly to identify critical questions that will drive decision-making and planning.
Strategic Thinking - Experience of carefully considering the issues and competing priorities within a situation, program or portfolio and then developing a strategy that includes the strategic application of available principles, tools, and systems.
Business Acumen - Experience of making decisions related to human, financial, material and information resources and using this knowledge to plan medical affairs strategy and resourcing.
Reimbursement/Market Access Knowledge - Experience of working closely with Value Evidence and Outcomes groups to support the payer value proposition.
People Development and Performance Management – Experience of building and maintaining a high performing team with appropriate performance management.