GI GU

GSK•Durham, NC

About The Position

The Head of Oncology Field Medical, Lung/GU/GI will be responsible for leading a high-performing field medical team supporting clinical trial activities and partnerships with research networks and cooperative groups. This role operates within a pipeline and early development environment, requiring the ability to lead a field team effectively in settings where scientific priorities, development plans, and engagement needs continuously evolve. This role will ensure the field medical team demonstrates excellence in scientific expertise, understands and supports GSK Oncology clinical trial strategy, and collects and translates high-quality medical voice of customer (mVoC). This individual will partner closely with US Emerging Therapeutic Areas Medical Executive Director, other USMA roles, relevant Global Medical partners (eg, Global Medical Affairs Head of Academic and Scientific Partnerships) and Clinical Operations to develop and execute field medical plans. They contribute field-informed perspective to asset strategy and medical planning, ensuring plans are grounded in external scientific landscape, investigator realities, and clinical development feasibility. The role is responsible for translating asset-level scientific and development priorities into effective field execution, ensuring field medical activities are aligned with evolving pipeline strategies. Additionally, this position holds accountability for medical governance, compliance, and ensuring alignment between field medical activities and clinical trial objectives.

Requirements

PhD, PharmD, physician (MD or equivalent), or other health professional degree with relevant experience.
4+ years in a field medical leadership role.
Minimum of 8-10 years of pharmaceutical industry experience.
Expertise in the design and deliver medical affairs field plans, coordinate medical engagement activities, and drive organizational performance.
Experience supporting pipeline assets including clinical trial engagement and scientific exchange in early development.
Demonstrated expertise in clinical trial support, including site identification, investigator engagement, and collaboration with clinical development and clinical operations teams.
Strong knowledge of therapeutic area, treatment options, patient care, and the US healthcare landscape.
Experience contributing to cross-functional asset or medical planning discussions.
Mastery to lead teams effectively in dynamic, evolving development settings.
Familiarity with key medical/scientific experts within the therapeutic field.

Nice To Haves

Oncology experience strongly preferred, ideally within oncology drug development or early asset support, with a focus in Lung, GU and GI tumors.
Expertise in managing partnerships with cooperative groups and research networks.
Strong strategic field planning and decision-making capabilities.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills to foster collaboration across internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a high-performing Field Medical team focused on clinical trial support and therapeutic area strategies. Includes recruiting, hiring, and developing a best-in-class team through ongoing performance assessments, coaching, and talent development.
Provide strategic oversight to first-line leaders to ensure alignment with therapeutic area goals and customer needs.
Partner with Emerging Therapeutics Medical Team, Global Medical Affairs teams, and other stakeholders to provide field-based insights, feasibility assessments, and external landscape perspective to inform medical plans and asset strategy discussions, and contribute to and execute field medical plans.
Ensure the team builds and maintains strategic partnerships with key external customers (eg, investigators, external experts, and other healthcare professionals) with emphasis on research-capable centers and investigator networks relevant to pipeline development.
Foster long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships to advance shared interests, deepen understanding of disease, address clinical trial gaps, generate evidence, and drive innovation in clinical development.
Ensure field engagement approaches are executed consistently and appropriately in pre-approval environments, maintaining compliance and scientific integrity.
Monitor external engagement and address challenges and opportunities, while ensuring key performance indicators are met.
Ensure a data-driven approach to assessing scientific exchange by leveraging analytics tools and performance tracking systems; regularly evaluate data to identify challenges and opportunities, implement targeted solutions, ensure alignment with predefined key performance indicator (KPIs) and adapt strategies.
Ensure delivery of high-quality medical voice of customer (mVoC) to shape clinical development and pipeline strategies, while effectively communicating actionable recommendations to senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
Support identification of trends that may impact trial execution or development strategy.
With National Field Head, oversee MSL resource deployment, including territory assignments, aligned to customer lists and allocation of resources to support agreed upon prioritized pipeline needs.
Accountable for ensuring all governance, monitoring, and compliance objectives are met and adhered to across all field medical and clinical trial activities.