AddressPosted Date: Mar 14 2024
Are you interested in a highly visible, impactful position that allows you to contribute to the delivery of GSK’s R&D pipeline (including products in the respiratory, immunology, and oncology therapy areas)? Do you have the experience and drive to lead cross-functional teams, external vendors, and senior leaders, in the Medical Writing aspects of clinical development plans? If so, this role is an exciting move to explore.
At GSK, Medical Writing Asset Leads (MWALs) use their leadership, experience, scientific and operational expertise in Medical Writing while working within a matrix organization to plan and deliver the clinical components leading to global regulatory submissions. Furthermore, MWALs actively contribute to identifying efficiencies and acceleration strategies leading to key organisational process improvements and excellence in Medical Writing.
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
- Be a matrix team leader and expert Medical Writing consultant leading one or more assets and related strategies as a Medical Writing point of contact.
- Lead matrix team to drive the delivery of high quality, fit-for-purpose clinical documents that accurately reflect associated data and are in line with GSK standards and global/regional/local regulatory requirements, while demonstrating high performance standards for own work and encouraging similar standards across the matrix teams.
- Lead, drive, promote and implement key organizational process improvement initiatives, including training materials for a range of clinical documents. Provide mentoring, coaching and/or training to individuals or teams to develop others and shared learnings.
- Provide resourcing information to TA Head to contribute to budget forecast with early escalation of risks and opportunities to ensure optimal resource utilization.
- Build interactive relationships with team leaders and senior stakeholders.
- Lead external resourcing and CRO interactions for project resourcing agreements, oversight of contract medical writers, and the negotiation of delivery/project timelines.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- PhD degree in Life Sciences or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience in clinical regulatory writing in the pharmaceutical industry, and demonstration of leadership (people or matrix for project and process improvements).
- Demonstrated experience in the authoring of the clinical documents used in regulatory interactions.
- Ability to interact with people at various levels of the organisation to present ideas, drive strategy, solve problems etc.
- Project and people management skills in the matrix.
- Strategic thinking with strong planning and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated experience in working with different time-zones and cultures.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
- Demonstrated experience in global regulatory submissions.
- Experience with Medical Writing automation strategies.
- A proven history of peer to peer coaching across R&D functions.
- Demonstrated contribution to continuous improvement strategies in Medical Writing.
Closing Date for Applications – 14th April (COB)
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Why Us?
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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
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