Are you interested in a highly visible medical affairs role that allows you to enable Medical to be a strategic partner to both internal stakeholders and customers across the entire therapeutic area matrix?  If so, this Senior Director, Strategy and Operations – Respiratory TA role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

This role will provide YOU with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Supports all deliverables of the Vice President and Respiratory TA Head, serving as a de facto Chief of Staff and helping the VP oversee and manage the entire TA team.
• Partner with assigned Asset Medical Lead(s) to drive optimal medicine strategy planning and delivery of the medical plan team’s operating model within the medical teams, with a focus on alignment with TA/disease strategy, resolving complex challenges, incorporating team building and training, and identifying process improvement opportunities.
• Drive effective processes and standards on all aspects of the US Medical Affairs Strategic Planning Process, in alignment where needed with global and commercial, that effectively leverages the unmet medical need framework, mVOC, and other external/internal intelligence 
• Instill strong discipline and effective project management discipline in driving aligned, timely, and high quality delivery of medical plan for assigned medicine(s)
• Lead and champion Patient Engagement activities for Respiratory, both representing USMA and engaging cross-functionally for a comprehensive One-GSK strategy, including spearheading relationships with the Respiratory PAGs and Health Professional Associations (HPAs)  
• Provide day-to-day operations support for medical matrix teams, including team communications, agenda management, meeting facilitation, team documentation, and appropriate compliance. 
• Facilitate effective partnership, interaction, and communication at the medicine level across the USMA matrix and between USMA and key GSK stakeholders with particular emphasis on partnership with US Commercial and Global Medical
• Ensure Senior Medical Leads are effectively prepared to represent US voice/needs across our entire USMA matrix at GMAT and MCT
• Represent USMA on the Commercial Funding Committee.
• Steadfast commitment to the ongoing professional development of the talent reporting into the role and other in the organization as appropriate.  Effective management of talent reporting directly into role

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelors Degree, Scientific, Health Care, and/or Business Graduate Degree

• Proven leadership skills working with Global and local matrix teams

• Ability to lead through change and independently lead projects
• Direct Medical Affairs experience and/or cross-functional engagement with Medical Affairs (5+ years)
• Pharmaceutical experience (10+ years)

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• ​Masters in Business Administration
• Advanced Science / Health Care Degree
• Demonstrated high level of strategic and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple large projects simultaneously
• Proven organizational, planning, and business acumen skills
• Ability to prioritize business needs and flexibility to address them when business appropriate; lead through change
• Capable of flexing/adapting to changing business priorities and marketplace/customer needs
• Ability to make informed strategic decisions and have foresight to predict/anticipate future scenarios
• Lead complex, cross functional teams and subject matter experts; develop long term planning strategies, programs,  and ability to independently implement
• Demonstrated ability to work across boundaries and geographies effectively
• Ability to lead, coach and teach others

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.
• Building a resilient organisation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

*LI-GSK

If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK HR Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or +1 801 567 5155 (outside US).

GSK is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 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.

Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies

GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK’s Transparency Reporting For the Record site.