Medical Advisor

**Site Name**: UK - London - Brentford

**Posted Date**: Feb 24 2023

**Medical Advisor / Senior Medical Advisor - Vaccines, 6-12 Month Secondment**

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company that combines both individual talent and technical resources to create a platform for the delivery of strong growth in a rapidly changing healthcare market. Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

We are recruiting for a Medical Advisor/ Senior Medical Advisor in the UK Vaccines Medical Team that will lead the medical affairs strategies, objectives and activities for one of the therapy areas in the Vaccines Medical Team. You will develop strong partnerships with external experts and internal stakeholders as you design and deliver a broad range of medical activities that support the therapy area.

We’re combining the power of genetic and genomic insights into what causes disease, with the speed and scale of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to make better predictions about who a treatment might work for, and why. We believe this powerful combination of data and technology holds the key to fundamentally transforming medical discovery for the better, improving R&D success rates and shaping how even the most challenging diseases, like neurological conditions and cancer, can be both prevented and treated.

In 2021 we delivered four major product approvals: Cabenuva for HIV, Jemperli for endometrial cancer, Xevudy for COVID-19 and Apretude, our new long-acting medicine for HIV prevention.

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Our approach to R&D

**In this role you will**
- Lead, define and execute medical activities that support the therapy area, including advisory boards, scientific meetings, medical education and local evidence generation plans.
- Drive UK medical strategy and plans and align with global strategies for the brand.
- Become a therapy area expert and provide scientific advice to colleagues in GSK.
- Provide clinical and scientific input into brand initiatives, working collaboratively with commercial, health outcomes, global medical and R&D colleagues.
- Provide clinical input into vaccines tender dossiers and input into UK market access strategy.
- Advise on medical and ethical matters to support colleagues across GSK UK including providing medical review and certification as final medical signatory.
- Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of the UK governance requirements (ABPI/MHRA) and company SOPs
- Identify, establish, and maintain strong relationships with key external experts and professional bodies to identify and address scientific and patient needs.
- Provide oversight and support to investigator-led studies and named patient programmes.
- Act as the Local Medical Lead for UK vaccine clinical studies, establishing the need and type of study and the UK requirements. Provide input into feasibility assessments and protocol, attend ethics submissions and maintain oversight of governance. Provide input into the post-study analysis and interpretation for the UK.

**_ Closing Date for Applications: March 12th, 2023 (COB)_**

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.- LI-GSK

**_ Why you?_**

**Qualifications & Skills**:
**We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals**:

- A GMC registered medical doctor or GPhC registered pharmacist OR significant and varied professional experience working in a Pharmaceutical/Vaccines focused role
- Working knowledge of the ABPI code of practice and MHRA regulations.
- Continuous record of career achievement in the life sciences industry.
- A good understanding of the changing UK health care environment, especially in relation to implementation of vaccine programmes
- Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
- Superior organisation skills
- Proven project management skills to lead and manage change projects
- Proactive, self-motivated, self-reliant.

**Preferred Qualifications & Skills**:
**If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus**:

- Final medical signatory i.e. A GMC registered medical doctor or registered pharmacist
- Medical Affairs experience in a relevant therapy area
- Therapy area knowledge in infectious diseases, immunology, public health, general medicine is desired but not essential
- Excellent understanding of medical functions and medical affairs activities

**_ 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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to