Senior Director, Bioethics and Policy

GSK is seeking a highly skilled Senior Director, Bioethics and Policy to provide strategic thought leadership on the development of Bioethics positions and recommendations for areas impacting R&D strategy and delivery. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on a global, regional, and country level to build and implement applied Bioethics knowledge and capability.

• Provide leadership for GSK's Global Bioethics program, executing on the overall strategic direction and creating structured mechanisms to address emerging bioethics issues and challenges.
• Manage the GSK Bioethics forums and Council, comprised of internal leaders and external ethics experts, to provide advice on key bioethics topics.
• Drive discussions and collaborations with business partners to develop fair and robust positions on R&D issues and ethical dilemmas.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with senior leaders in R&D, Compliance, Legal, and CPO organization, globally and in the regions/countries, to ensure Bioethics decision-making is understood and applied consistently.
• Provide input and guidance on operational and communications strategies to support effective implementation and embedding a Bioethics mindset in R&D.
• Serve as an advisor to teams and senior leaders on complex global bioethics topics.
• Bridge bioethics with technology ethics and represent OCMO and the CMO on Tech-related councils and forums.
• Drive the advancement of bioethics and establish GSK as an industry leader in advocating pragmatic, innovative, and ethical positions on complex bioethics dilemmas.
• Serve as a mentor and guardian of the Bioethics Ambassadors network and provide development opportunities for emerging bioethics leaders.
• Assess the ethical implications of R&D procedures and practices that carry significant moral implications and seek to mitigate these concerns with an eye toward applying sound moral and ethical principles.

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

• Masters Degree in Bioethics or Masters Degree with 10+ experience within BioEthics.
• 12+ years of experience in BioEthics.
• Pharmaceutical/industry experience in BioEthics.

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Industry experience in Compliance, Governance, or Legal background.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of R&D environment, policies, and procedures and applicable regulation requirements.
• Strong understanding of GSK Organisation (GSK Corporate, GSK Pharma, and GSK Vaccines) strategy. Able to build strong relationships and networks across GSK organization.
• Ability to incorporate strategy and organizational considerations.
• Proven track record in engaging and managing medium to large teams as line and matrix leader in global, local, and remote environment.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills, ability to facilitate interfaces within an extended network, proven experience in negotiating and influencing at senior levels of the organization.
• Possesses excellent English language written and verbal communication skills in addition to proven negotiation skills.
• Excellent leadership skills and promotes motivation and empowerment of others to accomplish individual, team, and organizational objectives.
• Ability to resolve issues with an enterprise thinking mindset.
• Ability to resolve problems with thoughtful use of knowledge, information, and networks in a flexible way and to be successful in a matrix environment.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to manage large multidisciplinary teams and to work with vast diversity of roles at different levels within GSK.
• Strengthens the Bioethics capability of R&D through coaching, advising, developing a Bioethics curriculum, cultivating a culture of empowerment, accountability, and high pressure.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

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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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