Medical Lead, Hematological Oncology

Site Name: Canada - Ontario - Mississauga
Posted Date: Apr 30 2024

** This is a Mandatory Hybrid Role: 2 Days at our Head office in Mississauga, ON

Job Purpose:

The Medical Lead within Medical Affairs will be responsible for providing expert scientific capability and leadership while being accountable for a broad range of Medical Affairs activities associated with assigned products and within the Oncology Therapeutic Area. The Medical Lead within Medical Affairs will be responsible for:

• Leading and overall execution of the Canadian Medical strategy for the asset/disease area within the country.
• Development and execution of the strategic & operational plans alongside the Medical Advisors and Medical Science Liaisons.
• Ensuring the medical voice of the customer is deeply understood, synthesized into medical insights and clearly translated into appropriate actions to enable appropriate use of our medicines and vaccines for patients in Canada.
• Partnering with Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) to generate evidence that captures the value of our medicines and vaccines and addresses the future needs of regulatory bodies, payers, HCPs and patients.
• Accelerating research and expanding the clinical value of pipeline through optimization of the Clinical-Medical partnership.
• Partnering with Regulatory Affairs and Government Affairs and Market Access (GAMA) to provide expert scientific product and disease knowledge in support of regulatory and HTA submissions.
• Advocating for the medical resource and data needed to support successful commercialization of products.
• Being recognized as a trusted partner with Commercial providing medical guidance and input and aligning and supporting promotional engagement strategy.

Details (Your Responsibilities):

• Provide expert scientific product and disease knowledge and trusted medical leadership to GSK Canada and to global medical networks.
• Build and leverage high quality scientific knowledge and capability expertise across the enterprise.
• Deliver external engagement excellence characterized by timely, responsible and responsive interactions with the external medical and scientific community to achieve a two-way trusted scientific partnership.
• Accountable for regular review and analysis of data analytics and medical voice of customer to derive insights and develop action plans to deliver on the medical strategy.
• Lead, develop and implement a Canada Medical Strategic Plan for medicines within the Oncology Therapeutic Area including:
  • External scientific engagement activities
  • Identifying areas of research interest and developing timely local study protocols which advance the scientific understanding of our medications
  • Developing Medical Education plans
  • Identifying advisory board/1:1 interaction needs, and leading their implementation and follow-up
  • Ensuring alignment with commercial strategic planning
  • Managing research budget and budget forecasting processes for assigned products and therapy areas
• Interact with global teams to influence global clinical development plans in order to optimize patient access to innovative medicines in Canada.
• Provide scientific strategic input to the Regulatory and GAMA to allow GSK to demonstrate the value of GSK products to achieve optimal product labeling, reimbursement outcomes and patient access.
• Evaluate and manage investigator-sponsored studies to advance research on disease and its treatment, aligned to the areas of research interest.
• Deliver study reports and local publications related to local research activities.
• Support the Oncology Therapeutic Area in the review of all medical grant and donation requests (including Independent Medical Education requests) and congress sponsorship requests to ensure alignment with therapy area strategies.
• Lead the development and implementation of advice seeking interactions (e.g. 1:1 interactions, advisory boards):
  • Identifying advisory board needs
  • Securing necessary approvals
  • Ensuring agenda meets local needs and not duplicated elsewhere
  • Leading the selection of participants
  • Completing due diligence reports and contracting
  • Ensuring insights/learnings are shared and addressed
• Leverage medical and scientific knowledge to ensure that all materials produced are medically and scientifically accurate and in compliance with local and GSK requirements.
• Contribute to patient safety by reporting, in a timely manner, all adverse events identified during the interactions with customers in accordance with internal policies and training, including any follow up information received.
• Line management of one or more team members as required (dependent on evolving needs of the business).

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• PhD or other advanced degree
• Strong foundation/expertise in the Oncology Therapeutic Area
• Demonstrated leadership of asset strategy and implementation within the Canadian environment
• Ability to manage relationships with internal and external partners including Key External Experts and global stakeholders
• Strong ability to leverage scientific knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to work as a strategic partner with commercial functions
• Must possess a good understanding of the Canadian healthcare environment
• Strong ability to develop timely and meaningful research protocols and study reports
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Oncology Therapeutic Area Medical Affairs experience considered an asset, including hematologic cancer
• People leadership and management experience
• Strong project management skills
• Strong business and financial acumen

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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.

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