Head of Medical Excellence & Operations Vaccines, Europe

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Site Name: Belgium-Wavre, GSK House, Munich, Stevenage

Posted Date: Nov 28 2022

GSK’s portfolio spans three product areas: vaccines, specialty and general medicines and our focus is to deliver better and faster for patients globally. Our unrivalled vaccine portfolio targets infectious diseases at every stage of life, helping to reduce the burden of disease for hundreds of millions of people. GSK has exceptional capabilities in vaccine science and technologies, including adjuvant/protein and mRNA. In specialty medicines, we are at the forefront of HIV prevention and treatment, and we are building our presence in key therapeutic areas such as oncology and immuno-inflammation. General medicines include our inhaled medicines for asthma and COPD, antibiotics, and medicines for skin diseases.

By 2031, we aim to deliver more than £33 billion in annual sales – a step-change in performance and growth which will significantly increase the positive impact we can have on the health of billions of patients around the world. And we’re confident in our future. Our pipeline of 21 vaccines and 43 medicines includes many with potential to be first or best-in-class opportunities for patients.

The Head of Medical Excellence & Operations, Europe is accountable for coordinating, delivering, and executing comprehensive regional medical plans to complement and support the overall European vaccines strategy at regional and country level. This includes: medical engagement, insight gathering, evidence generation, publication strategy, European medical congress strategy, and customer-facing activities. It serves as a key partner with other European and country level matrix functions (commercial, regulatory, legal, market access, and payers) and a driver for activities co-led with countries and cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities will be:

• To drive the European regional medical strategy development in close collaboration with the European Area Medical Leads (AMLs), vaccines Value Evidence and Outcomes (VEO) teams, regional, global and LOC commercial and wider cross-functional teams.
• To lead and coordinate the development of regional strategic and operational plans in collaboration with the AMLs, functional partners in line with the global strategy and country level market access needs and evidence gaps.
• To drive, coordinate and support gathering of medical insights from local and regional entities and key external stakeholders, identify strategies and activities to address medical market access challenges and unmet medical needs from a regional perspective in collaboration with the AMLs and VEO teams Global Medical Affairs, and other areas of the business to provide optimal support to the European vaccines Medical teams
• To contribute actively where necessary to the delivery of strategic and operational activities within the medical plans at regional and LOC level.
• To ensure consistent standards, processes for and delivery of the regional plans and their execution.
• To supports the performance monitoring and drive performance improvement across the regional entities, providing strategic & operational support to the ‘Head of vaccines Medical Affairs Europe’
• To lead the planning and execution of key events/meetings for the European vaccines medical teams to facilitate cross-functional learning and best practice sharing across countries and regional and global teams.
• To ensure seamless collaboration and two-way communication within the European vaccines matrix team.
  
  

Job related Experience:

• This is a visible role that has accountability for the delivery of critical inputs impacting product and portfolio strategy and decision-making at senior levels of the Vaccines organisation.
• It will require significant interaction with senior leaders and therefore requires expertise in the area combined with good business understanding.
• The role requires deep understanding of therapy areas, scientific and technical relating to the products or areas of expertise managed.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• You have successfully completed bachelor’s degree in Medical Science or related fields
• You have several years of experience in designing and delivering medical affairs brand plans and coordinating medical engagement activities
• You have demonstrated knowledge of therapy area, treatment options and patient care
• You have familiarity with the key medical/scientific experts within the therapeutic field.
• You are a member of Medical Expert speaker pool for Europe
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing the navigation of decisions on complex fast-moving cross-functional and global initiatives through multiple parties in matrixed organisations.
• High Emotional Intelligence with demonstrable ability to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.
• Education qualification in PharmD or physician (M.D. or equivalent)
• Board Certification/Qualification, in selected therapeutic area.
  
  

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.
• Building a resilient organisation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.
  
  

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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