ViiV Healthcare (GSK) Counsel - R&D and Global Medical

GSK•Durham, NC

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

ViiV Healthcare, the only company solely focused on HIV, is committed to advancing science, medicines, and access for people living with or affected by HIV. As part of the GSK group, ViiV combines deep HIV expertise with global R&D, medical, and commercial capabilities to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines across the HIV treatment, prevention, and cure landscape. This role sits within ViiV Legal and will support ViiV’s R&D and Global Medical organizations as they advance ViiV’s portfolio, collaborations, and evidence-generation activities in a highly regulated global environment. As the Counsel, R&D and Global Medical, you will provide practical legal support to ViiV’s R&D and Global Medical organizations, partnering with legal colleagues and cross-functional teams to support clinical development, medical affairs, evidence generation, research collaborations, and portfolio activities across ViiV’s HIV-focused pipeline and marketed medicines. You will advise on legal, privacy, contracting, governance, and risk-management issues arising across the medicine lifecycle, with a focus on helping teams make well-informed decisions in a fast-moving global environment. The role requires sound judgment, clear communication, collaboration, and the ability to translate legal advice into actionable guidance for scientific, medical, and development colleagues. This role will be based out of Durham, NC & may be considered for a domestic relocation package.

Requirements

Qualified lawyer authorized to practice in the US
3 plus years of relevant private practice and/or in-house legal experience, including life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare, corporate, transactional, litigation, regulatory or other experience involving complex legal analysis, risk assessment, contracting, governance or client counseling.
Experience advising on contracting, privacy, data governance, clinical studies, medical affairs, research collaborations, human biological samples, publications or external scientific engagements.
Working knowledge of intellectual property issues relevant to research collaborations, clinical studies, data, samples, publications and external scientific engagements, with ability to partner effectively with specialist IP counsel.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with ability to explain legal issues clearly to non-lawyers
Ability to provide clear, practical legal advice under tight timelines and changing priorities, with appropriate escalation of complex or higher-risk issues.
Ability to work collaboratively in a matrixed environment, build trusted relationships with legal and business colleagues, and escalate appropriately when legal or business risks require senior input.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with cross-functional R&D, clinical development, medical affairs, regulatory, compliance or commercial teams in a life sciences or healthcare setting.
Familiarity with digital health, artificial intelligence, real-world evidence, data analytics or other technology-enabled activities in a regulated life sciences environment.
Experience coordinating with subject-matter experts and cross-functional stakeholders to support timely, practical legal advice.

Responsibilities

Work closely with business colleagues supporting R&D, Global Medical, clinical development, privacy, intellectual property, compliance and contracting to deliver integrated legal support across ViiV’s portfolio and external collaborations.
Draft, negotiate and review a range of R&D and Global Medical agreements, including clinical study, investigator-sponsored research, academic collaboration, consortium, data-sharing, sample-use, advisory, service and external engagement arrangements, working with internal clients and contracting teams to ensure appropriate risk allocation and operational clarity.
Coordinate with specialist Legal and Compliance colleagues, including Global Intellectual Property, Digital Privacy and Cybersecurity, Regulatory, Compliance and the Legal Contracting Network, to support timely, practical and aligned legal advice for ViiV’s R&D, medical and external scientific activities.
Identify, assess and communicate legal and business risks arising from clinical development, medical affairs, evidence generation, data use, collaborations and external scientific engagement, and advise on practical mitigation, governance and escalation options.
Work with Quality, Risk Management, Privacy, Compliance and Regulatory colleagues to advise on governance and risk issues relating to clinical studies, real-world evidence, medical activities, data use, human biological samples and scientific collaborations.
Support the review and interpretation of pending or new legislation, regulations, guidance or policy developments impacting ViiV’s R&D and Global Medical activities, working with Legal, Compliance, Regulatory and Policy colleagues to help assess business impact and appropriate responses.
As needed, support legal work relating to clinical development, registration, post-approval evidence generation and lifecycle activities for one or more ViiV medicines or pipeline assets, working with senior legal colleagues and subject-matter experts as appropriate.