Global Head, Medical Communications

Job title:

Global Head, Medical Communications

Company

GlaxoSmithKline

Job description

We’re excited to be moving to our vibrant new home on New Oxford Street in central London from the end of June 2024. At GSK HQ, we’re building an energising space where we can connect, collaborate and get ahead of disease together. Designed especially for us, it’ll be one of the healthiest workplaces in the world, with best-in-class tech and bright, light spaces to help us thrive.Job Summary:The Global Head of Medical Communications, within Data Generation and Scientific Communications, is a new role. Its primary purpose is to lead, develop and embed a new organisation responsible for driving GSK’s leadership in, and high-quality delivery of, medical and scientific communication. The new organisation will enable a step change in GSK medical communications.The new team will be accountable for the creation and delivery of industry leading scientific content and programmes to be used for internal and external channels and medical education programmes. This content will cover all Therapeutic Areas (TAs) and requires driving collaborative ways of working with the TAs (via the Global Medical Leads), priority markets, Publications, ABPI, Medical Information, Med Tech, and Congressing teams. The Global Head of Medical Communications will also be responsible for ongoing business/resource planning for the team, as well as managing agency partnerships for medical content development.Key Responsibilities:Strategic Content Planning

• Lead a medical communications organisation that partners with the TAs to ensure TA delivery of scientific platform and core scientific statements for an asset, enabling TAs to create the asset scientific narrative consistent across the enterprise.
• Lead an organisation of global medical affairs professionals, experienced in medical communications, medical education, and OMNI channel content delivery by ensuring deep scientific understanding of asset science and external landscape.
• Foster and embed a new way of working with global medical publications and practices, setting standards on the importance of strategic publication planning and driving consistent ways of working across the enterprise.
• Senior member of the Data Generation and Scientific Communications leadership team contributing to the department’s growth, annual and longer-term objective setting, succession planning and annual performance reviews.

Medical Education Content

• Accountable for the delivery of high quality medical/scientific content and resources across all TAs to provide our external stakeholders an industry leading experience with GSK medical.
• Contribute to strategic planning for global medical congress to support data/scientific presence.

• Ensures close alignment on our data communications between TA, global publications, med Tech, and medical information presenting a single source of scientific truth to customers/stakeholders.
• Accountable for internal scientific communications and congress training in partnership with the TAs around new and key scientific data on disease areas of interest to stakeholders (field medical).

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Build, grow and evolve a medical communications organisation integrated within the complex matrix of Global Medical Affairs that serves as a trusted strategic partner to the business.
• Build strong trusted relationships based on demonstrable outputs by engaging across the matrix and with all partners.

• Partner with TA senior leaders, global publications, Med Tech, GMLT, and priority markets in the development of medical education strategies aligned to GSK priorities.
• Seeks relevant scientific / medical insight from stakeholder groups to ensure excellence in the medical communications delivery, process and quality.

EE Engagement

• Partner with the TA (GML) in the development of collaborations with professional societies in medical education programmes and initiatives.

Compliance & Regulatory Adherence

• Accountable with key stakeholders to ensure medical education activities comply with relevant regulations, GSK code, industry guidelines, and ethical standards. Ensuring timely review/approval and posting of content on the appropriate channels. Develop and implement an OMNI channel content strategy for assigned TAs to drive impact of our publications.
• Maintain in depth knowledge of Med Comms trends, external landscape, and stay abreast of country regulations and guidance that impact digital delivery of scientific information to external HCPs.

Evaluation & Reporting

• Spearhead the development and implementation of robust metrics and tools, meticulously designed to gauge the impact of medical education content and programs. This pivotal role demands a keen focus on demonstrating effectiveness while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, thereby ensuring the highest standards in GSK medical communications
• International travel expected

25%.Basic Qualifications and Experience

• Postgraduate degree: Masters, PhD, PharmD, or MD.
• Experience in a leadership role at country (in a large, prioritized market) and ‘above country’ level Medical Affairs
• Experience of leading teams larger than 20 people
• Experience of Medical Education Programs
• Experience of omnichannel strategies
• Experience of Content planning, development and delivery
• Experience of Integrated Data Communications
• Experience of negotiating appropriate needs and strategies to ensure trusted and strong partnerships between medical communications and the business.
• Experience of impactful leadership that engages, brings acceleration and develops people.
• Experience of presenting to both internal and external audiences.
• Experience of promotional codes/regulations; previous involvement in ABPI review and approval processes.
• Experience of Copy Approval requirements.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• ABPI signatory status
• US market experience
• Familiarity with existing GSK platforms (e.g., Content Lab, Team Site, Workday, MS Teams and GSK intranet)

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.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on or 0808 234 4391.Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a UK Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the and scroll to the Careers Section where you will find answers to multiple questions we receiveAs you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.Important notice to Employment businesses/ AgenciesGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK’s commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK’s Transparency Reporting site.

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Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:08:29 GMT

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