Medical and Scientific Advisor

**Site Name**: UK - London - New Oxford Street
**Posted Date**: Sep 11 2025

**Medical & Scientific Advisor (**Specialty Medicines**) - Final Medical Signatory**

We are recruiting for a Medical & Scientific Advisor in the UK Specialty Medical Team that will lead the medical affairs strategies, objectives and activities within the respiratory therapy area. 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.

Please note that this is a new role and depending on applicants, we may be able to hire for more than one position.

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**
- 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 NICE HTA 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, professional bodies and patient advocacy groups to identify and address scientific and patient needs.
- Why you?_

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

- Experience working as a nominated Final Signatory or commensurate experience working in copy approval under the ABPI guidelines in the pharmaceutical industry.
- A GMC-registered doctor or GPhC-registered pharmacist who is able to be a nominated final signatory
- Continuous record of career achievement in the life sciences industry.
- A good understanding of the changing UK health care environment
- 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**:
**Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply**:

- Medical Affairs experience in a relevant therapy area
- Therapy area knowledge in respiratory, immunology, general medicine is desired but not essential.
- Excellent understanding of medical functions and medical affairs activities.

**Closing Date for Applications - 28th of September**, 2025**

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At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. R&D is committed to discovering and delivering transformational vaccines and medicines to prevent and change the course of disease. Science and technology are coming together in a way they never have before, and we have strong tech-enabled capabilities that allow us to build a deeper understanding of the patient, human biology and disease mechanisms, and transform medical discovery. We are revolutionising the way we do R&D. We’re uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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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 purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environmen