Regional Medical Affairs Lead, Europe - Breast and Gynaecologic Cancers

Baar Onyx, GSK House
Posted Date: May 2 2024

Details

GSK’s Oncology portfolio consists of 3 pillars:

• Breast & Gynaecologic Oncology (BGO) with its launched products Zejula and Jemperli (Endometrial and Ovarian Cancer)
• Pipeline with several assets in development across several therapeutic areas including lung cancer, head & neck, and GI-cancers.
• Haematology is a focus area with BLENREP as key asset in Multiple Myeloma as well as Omjjara in Myelofibrosis

Medical Affairs is a critical pillar alongside R&D and the commercial organization to ensure that our medicines reach the appropriate patients. GSK has committed to building a new oncology business, with initial focus on selected EU markets.

The person taking on this role will work closely with their peers in Clinical Development, Value Evidence, Market Access and Commercial in region, global and local operating company (LOC) to cocreate and execute strategy for BGO, especially in Endometrial and Ovarian Cancer. This person will be directly responsible for leading the Niraparib and Dostarlimab program within the Breast and Gynaecological oncology group for European Markets

The EU Medical Affairs Lead BGO is the go-to person for this therapeutic area in Europe, who possesses strong leadership skills, demonstrated experience in navigating uncertainty, credibility and skills across pharmaceutical medicine and business acumen. The position requires a hands-on mentality to ensure execution of own initiatives internally and externally but also leads matrix teams as well as direct reports. This position reports to the VP & Europe Medical Head, Oncology Europe.

This is a highly visible, influential leadership role, requiring excellent networking, communication and influencing skills to work effectively in a highly matrixed environment.

Purpose

• The incumbent will be accountable for providing the vision and leadership to ensure Medical Affairs excellence and to be a strategic scientific partner to both internal stakeholders and customers.
• Accountable for ensuring the regional medical organisation for the disease area has the right capabilities to deliver outstanding execution of plans, for performance management of the medical operational plan and evidence generation for the key markets in the region.
• This role will be the regional lead for strategy & operational plan development across Europe. They will support the execution of the plan alongside country leads.

Key Responsibilities

• Build additional scientific leadership to provide greater insights and significant external presence to support and lead GSK’s BGO portfolio in Europe Responsible for Medical Affairs Activities relating to the assigned products and disease area, (including field medical activities) in conjunction with the Global Medical Directors, Area Medical Directors, and Country Medical Leads as appropriate.
• Act as the medical partner to the Regional/ Area Therapeutic Commercial Organisation.
• Ensures the medical unmet need is deeply understood, synthesised into medical insights, and clearly translated into appropriate actions to enable appropriate use of our medicines for patients in the region.
• Leads the development and execution of regionally and cross functionally aligned medical plans for the assigned medicines within the specific Therapeutic area. (S)he is accountable for medical plan development and strategic deployment of all medical resources to achieve joint objectives.
• Leads evidence gap analysis for the therapeutic area and ensure its integration to global integrated evidence plan.
• Oversee Phase IIIb/IV clinical development plans and Investigator-sponsored studies, for the assigned assets in the Europe by providing a consolidated regional perspective into long-term global clinical and value evidence strategies.
• Advocate for medical resources/data needed to support successful commercialization of products.
• Lead the scientific and external engagement strategy for the asset/ disease area within the region.
• Support the countries in external scientific communications and evidence dissemination.
• Maintains deep product and disease expertise on the medicine(s) and includes market and competitive knowledge in ovarian and endometrial cancers.
• Support the product specific training for medical teams in the countries to deepen the product and scientific knowledge within the disease area.
• Enable a performance driven culture with clear metrics and business improvement embedded into the organization and be accountable for metrics to measure and communicate asset-related Medical Affairs activities to demonstrate the value and achievements.
• Be recognized as a trusted partner with commercial providing medical guidance and input and aligning and supporting promotional engagement strategy.
• Accountable for Medical input and scrutiny into Launch excellence processes, Launch improvement workshops and LOC deep dives.

Qualifications / Experience

Basic

• Medical Doctor, Pharmacist or PhD with experience within breast and gynaecologic oncology
• Industry experience, spanning clinical development and medical affairs.
• Product launch experience
• In country and above country medical affairs experience
• Experience across development, safety, regulatory, market access and reimbursement with deep understanding of the European markets.

?Preferred

• Strategic thinking, business acumen, effective matrix leadership, with proven ability to motivate, influence, negotiate, and collaborate; strong project management skills; solid planning and organizational skills; strong scientific/analytical problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication, influence, leadership, and talent development
• Strong organizational, planning, and business acumen skills
• Proven ability to interpret customer needs as well as negotiation and influence skills.
• Flexibility and ability to adjust to changing timelines and priorities.
• Ability to produce concise and simple summaries of concepts and solutions.
• Ability to cope under pressure with sometimes conflicting priorities.
• Ability to prioritize business needs and flexibility to address them when business appropriate.
• Ability to work with new technology and in the digital space.
• Proven ability to deliver effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management and scientific audiences using original or innovative techniques or style.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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