Associate Director, Epidemiology

1 week ago


Brentford, Greater London, United Kingdom 1925 GlaxoSmithKline LLC Full time

Associate Director - Epidemiology

The Associate Director in Epidemiology will support the development of asset or disease specific epidemiology strategy and providing scientific leadership in the application of epidemiological expertise and methods to inform internal and external decision-making across all phases of medicine development to increase efficiency and effectiveness of delivering medicines to patients.

This position functions within the Epidemiology Department, which contributes to the successful development of new medicines. Our staff in Epidemiology provide leadership and expertise to develop and execute the Epidemiology strategy across the entire spectrum of drug development, from early discovery to registration and lifecycle management.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

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In this role you will

Maintain and expand an epidemiology support strategy aligned with the medicine development strategy, utilizing your expertise in epidemiology and the disease area. Improve disease understanding relevant to medicine development, including but not limited to: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history course, treatment patterns, co-morbidities, co-medications/vaccinations, outcome measures, serotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and their variations across demographics and geographies. Support and be accountable for advising scientifically on Real World Evidence strategies. Contribute to medication safety evaluation by providing background event rates, synthesizing existing evidence including through meta-analyses, and identifying high-risk populations. Propose and lead post-marketing activities, including risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, and post-authorization studies supporting benefit/risk evaluation. Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and generate new evidence through delivery of specific research plans/protocols and analysis of healthcare databases available within GSK. Develop strong partnerships with internal stakeholders in a multi-disciplinary framework (clinical, safety, regulatory, health outcomes, asset leadership) to meet product needs. Plan resource allocation to accomplish multiple research projects and attain project and study timelines. Identify innovative, timely, and cost-effective methods to conduct epidemiologic studies. Propose and negotiate the content of epidemiologic strategy and budget with matrix leaders. Communicate study findings effectively to relevant internal and external audiences. Provide input into regulatory submission documents and represent the function to regulatory agencies as required. Participate in departmental initiatives aimed at driving innovative solutions through evaluation and creation of tools, methodologies, or processes. May contribute to advancing the science through membership or leadership of external initiatives (e.g., ICPE, IMI).

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

Doctoral degree (PhD., ScD or DrPH) in epidemiology (preferred) or a relevant discipline (i.e., health services research, health outcomes research, public health, statistics, or pharmaceutical sciences) At least one year experience conducting pharmacoepidemiologic research in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in an academic or government setting.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

Expertise in infectious disease epidemiology Self-motivated with the ability to work independently to develop credibility with colleagues within and outside Epidemiology, as well as interact effectively in multi-disciplinary matrix teams to influence decisions. Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings. Broad experience in collaborating with research partners Problem-solver; ability to see solutions to complex, unique situations where the epidemiological principles need to be applied. Ability to work well within a global and matrix environment, balance priorities, and handle multiple tasks through good planning, project administration, and organization skills. Ability to relay complex, technical information from real world studies to cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and non-technical audiences Excellent understanding of the pharmaceutical environment across multiple countries/regions Experience in leading epidemiology research in US, EU, and Asia-Pacific Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk. Managing individual and team performance. The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $127,840 to $172,960 taking into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

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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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, 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.

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