Medical Director, Oncology New Products

Reference #: 406082
Site Name: USA – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, USA – North Carolina – Durham
Posted Date: Oct 17 2024

A Medical Affairs Medical Director has strong clinical and scientific expertise and is focused on providing input and support for key GSK Oncology assets in development, ensuring US Market needs/insights are considered and integrated into product development, evidence generation, and pre-launch plans.  The focus of the Medical Director is to provide input and expertise into the medicine strategy, inform the clinical development program, and execute the related tactical plans, support external scientific engagement, and provide insight and deeper understanding of the data generated. This role will also work with the Executive Medical Lead to ensure the US Oncology Medical team has the appropriate expertise and resources in place to support new medicines coming to market. They will partner closely with Commercial Early Asset leads, Global Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, and R&D teams.

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

Leads planning and execution of medical tactics; contributes to medical material development, communication plans, application of external stakeholder insights.

Partners with Medical Communications & Scientific Training and Medical Information to ensure medical materials created align with US medical strategy and business needs.

Understands, interprets, and applies the external environment and competitive knowledge to all medical activities and can define the patient journey.

Understands and communicates clinical and market access data requirements for US market; in partnership with the US Executive Medical Lead, provides input to shape clinical and health outcomes evidence plans to support anticipated US Market needs.

In partnership with the US Executive Medical Lead, provides input into the design of clinical trials, development plans, and integrated evidence planning; coordinates with relevant Global Medical colleagues and R&D (Research & Development) technical experts, e.g., Global Value Evidence and Outcomes and Epidemiology, as required.

Provides input into the evaluation of US investigator sponsored studies in alignment with the global franchise.

In collaboration with field medical, leads/contributes to appropriate US scientific engagement between GSK and external stakeholders/accounts to advance scientific and medical understanding including the appropriate development and use of our medicines, management of the disease, and patient care.

Partners with all relevant internal stakeholders to ensure successful execution of all medical activities to support life cycle management, ensuring integrity of scientific content.

Applies sound medical governance for all activities.

Why you?

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

Advanced Scientific or Clinical Degree (e.g. PhD, PharmD, or MD).

5 years experience in medical affairs.

Experience working with drug development, regulatory and commercialization process, including clinical trial development.

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

Experience in the following disease areas: lung cancer, head and neck cancer, GI malignancies.

Prior experience working in a US Medical Affairs role.

Broad drug development experience with robust knowledge of GCP regulatory/ market access and reimbursement requirements.

Business Acumen- ability to analyze external environment and translate to strategy.

Customer focused – ability to evaluate and understand the needs of the patient and healthcare ecosystem and build a customer-focused plan.

Building relationships – ability to work effectively with others, delegate appropriately and foster a culture of collaboratio .

Enable and drive change – ability to influence to deliver results, proactively look for new opportunities and constantly anticipate the need for change.

Learning agility- must demonstrate deep understanding of the disease area, asset and competitive landscape.

Demonstrated understanding of medical affairs accountabilities for evidence generation, external engagement and advice seeking.

Strong organizational, planning, and business acumen skills.

Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
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