Medical & Scientific Advisor (Hepatology) - Final

**Site Name**: UK - London - New Oxford Street
**Posted Date**: Nov 12 2024

**Medical and Scientific Advisor (Hepatology, Specialty UK)**

Are you interested in a medical affairs role that leverages your project management expertise to accelerate medical affairs engagement? Are you passionate about making a difference to patients living with a rare disease? If so, this Medical and Scientific Advisor role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

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 hepatology 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.

As a Medical and Scientific Advisor and acting as a Final Medical Signatory, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of our medical content and materials. Working within a dynamic and collaborative environment, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our communications adhere to regulatory guidelines while effectively conveying the benefits and risks of our medicines.

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.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage _Life at GSK | GSK_

**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 data generation plans.
- Drive UK medical strategy and plans and align with global strategies for the therapy area.
- Become a therapy area expert and provide scientific advice to colleagues in GSK.
- Provide clinical and scientific input into therapy 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. Act as formal mentor & coach to new signatories/signatories in training. - if on approved UK list
- Lead, or provide input into, updating and or development of SOPs

**_ Why you?_**

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

- Deep knowledge in the field of either autoimmune and/or rare and/or liver disease
- 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.

**Closing Date for Applications - **November 24**th**, 2024**

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

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