VP & Global Medical Lead, Respiratory (IL33)

GSK • Upper Providence, PA

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About The Position

The VP, Global Medical Lead (GML) Respiratory is a senior business leadership role reporting to the VP Respiratory - Global Medical Affairs and serving on GSK’s Global Medical Affairs, Respiratory Leadership Team. The position has full responsibility for the global medical strategy for the IL-33 disease area, translating science into medical practice and specialty care, and providing healthcare decision-makers worldwide with evidence and confidence in GSK therapies. The role also brings medical insight and expertise to internal Development and Commercialization strategies.

The GML sets the medical strategic direction for IL-33 and provides matrix leadership to the Global Asset Medical Leadership Team. The role partners with key markets so their insights inform evidence generation, asset and specialty-care development, and strategic deliverables, while working across Commercial and R&D to deliver value for patients. The incumbent also participates in the Medicines/Respiratory Development Team and Medicine/Respiratory Commercial Team, contributing medical insight to evidence generation and scientific communication plans across the product lifecycle.

A central focus is developing and stretching the individual and team to deliver patient impact and improve patient-care paradigms. The GML leads global medical product strategy and associated deliverables, aligns evidence generation with unmet needs and evidence gaps, supports priority markets, and helps optimize the asset’s impact and competitiveness from development through lifecycle management.

Requirements

• Medical Doctor, Pharmacist, or PhD.
• Therapy-area experience or expertise in Immunology or Respiratory.
• In-country experience as a Therapy Area Medical Lead or Country Medical Director.
• Experience directing an asset’s strategy at the global level.
• Expertise launching an asset at local and global levels.
• Asset lifecycle management expertise at local and global levels.
• Expertise in data generation for asset development.
• Experience with omnichannel strategies.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, digital fluency, enterprise thinking, high-impact communication, launch excellence, and focus on patient impact.

Nice To Haves

• Good understanding of core principles for using clinical data, guiding its strategic use, and implementing clinical studies.
• Experience interacting with external therapeutic-area experts and physicians, with strong medical knowledge, understanding of patient management, and clinical judgment about benefit-risk significance.
• Experience working in clinical development or early/pipeline medical affairs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the cross-functional product medical team (PMT) and product development at the global level.
• Convenе and chair the PMT.
• Jointly develop the global medical brand strategy and plans for IL-33.
• 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 for priority markets, using the expertise of the 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 IL-33.
• 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 or supporting global tactics.
• Convene relevant PMLs as needed to address broader disease-area considerations.
• Maximize positive impact for patients and GSK from early development through maturity, defined as no further significant clinical evidence generation.
• Partner with the Development and Commercial Lead 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 the PMT and its evidence, product-development, and asset-strategy deliverables.
• Lead the PMT in developing and delivering the global medical product strategy and global deliverables that enable prioritized countries to execute the strategy and deliver local patient impact.
• Ensure evidence-generation plans address unmet needs, prioritized evidence gaps, and medical and market-access requirements, supporting asset competitiveness from launch through lifecycle management.
• Keep patients at the center of decisions and maintain deep engagement with the science, disease area, and business.
• Create a collaborative, cross-functional environment with shared accountability, while encouraging employees to contribute diverse skills and learn from one another.
• Listen to key markets and ensure their needs are reflected in global strategy, evidence generation, and other deliverables.
• Assess the external environment, including competitors, and combine insights into a clear medical strategy aimed at improving patient outcomes.
• Model GSK’s purpose, strategy, and culture and foster a performance-focused culture.
• Lead authentically and confidently to build support for workable plans, including in ambiguous situations.
• Build cohesion and shared accountability across the Medical Asset/Portfolio Leadership Team, particularly with priority LOCs.
• Communicate consistently and effectively so people working on an asset understand and can implement its strategy.
• Adapt approaches to seeking input and feedback to accommodate cultural differences across LOCs.

Benefits

• GSK refers applicants to its US Benefits Summary for information about its comprehensive benefits program; specific benefits are not listed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree