Our commitment to Global Health (GH) is an important priority for GSK. The purpose of Global Health is to unite science, talent and technology to get ahead of disease together by changing the trajectory of high burden infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the underserved in lower-income countries. Within Global Health we seek to progress our pipeline to prevent and treat priority infectious disease particularly those with AMR potential, expand sustainable access to GH innovations and the GSK portfolio and pipeline, and to strengthen health systems and improve pandemic preparedness.

Overview:
This position is in the Global Health Medicines R&D (GHMRD) clinical development group, which focuses on drug development and clinical development of anti-infectives for diseases that affect populations in lower income countries, including malaria and TB.

The clinical team supports the drug discovery work of the GHMRD research unit, based in Tres Cantos, Spain, and in collaboration with external non-governmental organisation (NGO) partners and academics. The team also works closely with clinical operations, statistics, regulatory, clinical pharmacology modelling & simulation, safety and non-clinical groups, to design and execute drug and clinical development programmes for medicines in development, and with GH colleagues who provide access insights and analytics to inform prioritisation, investment, partnership, and development pathways.

The successful candidate will exemplify leadership, together with excellent communication skills and will have accountability for the design and implementation of the clinical development strategy for GH assets. The role involves leadership of internal matrix teams and engagement with external groups, including clinical trials consortia and development partnerships.

The Role:

The main focus of this role will be to provide drug and clinical development expertise for the GSK portfolio of anti-infective therapies for Global Health. This will involve close working relationships with colleagues within Global Health, safety, clinical operations, medical affairs and regulatory, to design and execute drug development programmes for medicines in development.

This role will also require close interaction with the drug discovery research groups in Global Health, to provide development and clinical insights and to develop and execute drug and clinical development strategies around a disease and/or drug compound. This may include the development of novel tools and methodologies.

An underpinning strategy of the Global Health is to find specialist partners at or before proof of concept to help bring our medicines to patients. As such strong collaboration and regular interaction with product development partners, NGOs and funders is a requirement. This would include consultative input and oversight of development partners acting as study sponsors, and contribution to and/or leadership of partner-led development.

The position holder will be expected to lead the development and delivery of drug development strategy.

Role responsibilities:

• Support may be required for the business development team in reviewing licensing/ partnering opportunities.
• Presentations within and external to GSK will be required.
• Develop and maintain a high level of current knowledge in the therapeutic area.
• Serve as an active matrix team leader and/or member by providing guidance and direction to peer physicians and scientists to ensure the successful achievement of the unit's goals and milestones.
• Actively participate in the development of others within the organisation, provide guidance and coaching to team members.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Good appreciation of the drug development process and clinical trials
• Ability to interpret clinical trial results, including the strengths and weaknesses of study design and application of study results to clinical practice
• Demonstrated ability to learn new aspects of the therapeutic area through reading, conference attendance and engagement with experts
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
• Ability to operate effectively across functions and geographic interfaces
• Ability to influence and lead in a matrix organisation, including external partners
• Flexible, focused, enthusiastic, and able to identify opportunities
• Able to operate in a complex organisational environment, and willing to challenge the status quo
• Comfortable with being personally accountable and capable of arguing own case in the best interest of patients.
• Strong oral & written communications skills
• Comfortable engaging and communicating with external opinion Leaders
• Visible and accountable and with an open style of interaction

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience of design and conduct of First Time in Human and Proof of Concept Studies
• Track record of managing collaborations with external stakeholders Experience in Infectious Diseases, particularly diseases disproportionately impacting patients in low resource settings

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 positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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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