compliance officer Stevenage, England
Job description
Posted Date: Jul 14 2023
Job Description – Manager, Strategic Labelling & Development
Are you an enthusiastic regulatory professional with experience or an interest in developing patient and prescriber information while pursuing a career in a global pharmaceutical company? If so, GSK currently has opportunities in its Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA)- Labelling department, within research and development, and this Labelling role may be an ideal opportunity for you to explore.
At GSK, we’re constantly developing new products and maintaining our established medicines to improve the quality of human life. Ensuring these products are correctly prescribed and used is essential, and that’s where our labelling team is key. The Labelling team supports our portfolio of medicines by ensuring that the information relating to the safety and efficacy of our products reaches patients and prescribers. This is done through the creation and management of our Company Core Data Sheet, which contains information for prescribers and patients. As a Labelling Manager in the UK-based team, you will help us support our exciting pipeline of new products. As a global position, you will be providing labelling support to colleagues in markets worldwide. This may include work on the US PI; European SmPC, patient information leaflet and label; and prescribing/patient information for other major international markets, including Asia Pacific and key emerging markets.
Our labelling development team supports a product during development and throughout its early lifecycle, and we are the authors of Global Datasheets for GSK products. You will liaise with colleagues in clinical, safety and other regulatory functions to ensure that the Prescribing Information, Patient Leaflets and Packaging Components accurately reflect the Company's medical and scientific position regarding the safe and effective use of a GSK product.
In this role you will
- Lead the development of the Global Datasheet for new medicines or product line extensions.
- Manage core and local prescribing/patient information through development and for newly approved products.
- Work with colleagues in markets worldwide to ensure implementation of the global datasheet into local prescribing/patient information.
- Author responses to regulatory questions on prescribing/patient information from Regulatory Authorities.
- Author documentation to support Labelling Governance Committees.
- Interface with key labelling and governance stakeholders across GSK.
- Manage documentation to support global and country/regional product information (PI) development and early maintenance.
- Author and manage US PI for products registered in the US.
- Author and manage EU PI annexes for products registered via the EU centralised procedure.
- Management of GRA Labelling data in appropriate systems and databases (primarily Veeva vault).
- Mentor colleagues on Labelling processes
- Serve as back-up for manager at Governance meetings
- Represent GSK at external conferences
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- BSc in Pharmacy or Life Sciences related subject
- Proven leadership skills in a matrix environment
- Relevant Labelling experience such as pharmacy, regulatory affairs, medical affairs, clinical research, pharmacovigilance, or therapeutic area experience.
- An understanding of company priorities and responds appropriately with flexibility to ensure deadlines are met successfully.
- Specific experience with prescribing/patient information.
- Track record of authoring clear scientific labelling text for health professionals and patients
- Experience in managing senior stakeholders to meet internal and external deadlines
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
- Ability to recognise and resolve conflicts
- Ability to work in complex matrix teams
- Demonstrated high attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent communication skills
- Shows a focus on improving performance and excellence in all tasks.
- Challenges ways of working to seek improved process.
- Ability to make sound decisions.
- Proactively seek information, guidance and insight from a broad range of sources and weigh benefits and risks before making important decisions.
Closing Date for Applications – 25th July 2023 (COB)
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