Director Medical Writing Therapy Area Head- Immunology and Respiratory

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Site Name: Belgium-Wavre, Italy - Siena, UK - London - Brentford, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Posted Date: Feb 22 2023

Join our challenge to get ahead of disease together!

Location:

Belgium Wavre, London Brentford, Italy Siena, USA

Therapeutic area: Immunology and Respiratory

Job Purpose

As director Medical Writing Therapy Area Head, you will:

• Apply leadership and influence capability in an internal matrix and with external partners, incorporating the organisational vision into strategic and operational proposals/decisions.
• Lead and manage a team of Medical Writing Asset Leads to provide the Medical Writing strategy to Therapy Area projects, the design and delivery of end-to-end high-quality fit for purpose clinical documents including those for regulatory submissions, the plans for efficient/accelerated ways of working and key organizational process improvements.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Lead and Manage Direct Reports:

• Develop Organizational Talent–Lead and manage a team of internal Medical Writing Asset Leads to provide the medical writing strategy for delivery of clinical documents through the development lifecycle.
• Hire and integrate newcomers
• Create opportunities to develop and apply new skills and minimize barriers to development.
  
  

strong organizational awareness:

• Strong understanding and ability to incorporate organizational considerations into strategic and operational decisions.
• Create and gain commitment to a future vision. Ensure it is measurable and aligned with organizational goals.
• Lead through vision and values.
  
  

Negotiate:

• Explore positions and options to reach agreements and solutions.
• Present clear arguments to gain acceptance of ideas and influence outcomes to meet organizational objectives
  
  

Judge & solve problems:

• Demonstrated track record of quality decision making and creative problem resolution that impacts program/project direction.
  
  

Risk Taking:

• Make decisions when outcome is unclear, act with potential negative consequences
  
  

Process Improvement and Compliance:

• Ownership of process to develop cross-business clinical documents and capabilities
  
  

External Relationship, Influence and Communication:

• Leadership role in GSK’s response to external regulatory requirements
• Demonstrate an ability to influence others, internally and externally, to form beneficial partnerships with external organisations to meet company objectives
• Capable of leading and serving as a medical writing point of contact for one or more assets.
• Support prioritising workload across an asset or group of assets to deliver portfolio
• Ensure Medical Writing strategy is aligned with the portfolio strategy
• Lead, drive, promote and implement key organizational process improvement initiatives.
• Proactively generate ideas for simplification and improvement taking advantage of opportunities that arise.
• Promote environment for others to generate ideas for improvement and champions novel business solutions in technology and ways of working.
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent expertise Life sciences
• Demonstrate experience in multicultural settings (to reflect our external customers/clients [health authorities/patients] and diverse environments with respect to dynamics of human interaction (including working with remote teams)
• The role requires excellent interpersonal skills
• This role also has broad influence to drive process change to meet the organisational vision, and capability to represent GSK externally for Medical Writing-related initiatives.
• Project and people management skills
• Strategic thinking with strong planning and organizational skills
• Ability to work with team members in various locations
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years’ experience in clinical regulatory writing experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including demonstration of leadership.
• This is a job description to aide in the job posting but does not include all job evaluation details.
  
  

Why GSK?

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 R&D focus is to deliver a new generation of vaccines and medicines using the science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to get ahead of infectious diseases, HIV, cancer and immune-mediated and respiratory diseases. We do all this with a commitment to operate responsibly for all our stakeholders by prioritising Innovation, Performance and Trust.

Our bold ambitions for patients are reflected in new commitments to growth and a significant step-change in delivery over the next five years. This means more GSK vaccines and treatments, including innovative new products, will reach more people who need them more than ever before.

We have long believed that building trust is key to stronger performance, helping to create value for shareholders, impact for patients and society and a reason outstanding people choose to work for and with us. That’s why being a responsible business is an integral part of our strategy. Taking action on environmental, social and governance issues is a key driver in our strategy.

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 our ambition for GSK to be 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 people 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.

We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive. 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.

We’re also working hard to become more inclusive in the way we do business. We’re building demographic planning into our clinical trials, so they reflect the real-world population that’s affected by the disease we’re studying. We’re engaging with diverse-owned suppliers that meet our standards and share our values. We’re also inspiring the next generation of diverse scientists by investing in STEM education programmes to improve career opportunities for people in under-represented communities.

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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