VP & Global Medical Lead, Immunology (Allergy)

GSK•Upper Providence, PA

About The Position

The VP, Global Medical Lead (GML) Food Allergy is a senior business leadership role reporting to the VP Global Medical Affairs, Immunology, and serving on GSK’s Global Medical Affairs, Immunology Leadership Team. The role has full responsibility for the Global Medical Strategy for Allergy, translating science into improvements in medical practice and specialty care, and providing healthcare decision-makers with evidence and confidence in GSK therapies. The GML also brings medical insight and expertise to inform Development and Commercialization strategies. The role sets the medical strategic direction for Allergy and provides matrix leadership to the Global Asset Medical Leadership Team. It partners with key markets to incorporate their insights into evidence generation, asset and specialty-care development, and strategic deliverables, while working across Commercial and R&D to deliver value for patients. The GML also contributes to the Medicines/Immunology Development Team and Medicine/Immunology Commercial Team, informing evidence generation and scientific communication across the product lifecycle. The position leads the cross-functional product medical team and global product development activities, including development of the global medical brand strategy, scientific objectives, medical narrative, integrated communication plan, and evidence-generation plans. It represents the patient voice, coordinates global resources and deliverables, supports key development inflection points, and leads, coaches, and mentors direct reports. The GML is accountable for integrating market insights and unmet needs into asset strategy, maximizing patient impact and asset competitiveness from launch through lifecycle management. The role also promotes a collaborative, accountable performance culture and develops both self and team to improve patient care.

Requirements

Medical Doctor, Pharmacist, or PhD.
Therapy-area experience or expertise in Immunology.
In-country experience as a Therapy Area Medical Lead or Country Medical Director.
Experience directing an asset’s strategy at a global level.
Expertise in launching an asset at local and global levels.
Asset lifecycle-management expertise at local and global levels.
Expertise in data generation in the context of asset development.
Experience with omnichannel strategies.
Ability to use clinical data, guide its strategic use, and understand the implementation of clinical studies.
Strong medical knowledge and experience, understanding of patient management, and clinical judgment concerning benefit-risk significance in interactions with external therapeutic-area experts and physicians.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in clinical development.

Responsibilities

Lead the cross-functional product medical team (PMT) and product development at the global level.
Convene and chair the PMT, jointly developing the global medical brand strategy and plans for Allergy.
Set the direction of the medical brand plan, including scientific objectives, the medical scientific narrative, and the integrated communication plan.
Direct and coordinate global resources to generate data and create content supporting priority markets, drawing on Global Operations and Global Data teams.
Represent Medical in cross-functional strategy meetings and workshops, and propose innovative medical strategy options for the Integrated Asset Plan at Product Development Team and Product Commercial Team meetings.
Provide focused support at key development inflection points, such as launch.
Represent the voice of the Chief Patient Officer Organization for Allergy.
Lead and be accountable for global medical activities related to product development.
Lead, coach, and mentor direct reports supporting the PMT in developing medical brand strategy and plans and executing global tactics.
Convene relevant Product Medical Leads as needed to address broader disease-area considerations.
Maximize positive impact for patients and GSK from early development through asset maturity.
Partner with Development and Commercial leads to integrate stakeholder insights into the medicines vision, development strategy, and early clinical development, and refine medical strategy as clinical evidence is generated.
Ensure medical insights from priority markets inform evidence, product development, and asset strategy deliverables.
Lead the PMT in developing and delivering the global medical product strategy and deliverables that enable prioritized countries to execute the strategy locally.
Ensure evidence-generation plans address unmet needs, evidence gaps, and medical and market-access requirements, supporting asset competitiveness from launch through lifecycle management.
Keep patients at the center of decisions and build a collaborative, cross-functional environment with shared accountability.
Understand market needs and the external and competitor environment, and incorporate relevant insights into a clear medical strategy.
Model GSK’s purpose and culture, communicate strategy consistently, and foster cohesion, collective accountability, and effective decision-making across the Medical Asset/Portfolio Leadership Team.