Oncology Medical Affairs Director, Brazil

Are you interested in a leadership opportunity to drive the implementation of effective Oncology strategies for a multi-national pharmaceutical company? If so, this role may be for you

As Medical Affairs Oncology Director, you will be responsible for leading the Oncology (including the Solid Tumors and Onco-hematology) Medical Affairs team in Brazil, including the development of the overarching portfolio strategy and recruitment of Oncology and Onco-Hematology medical leaders and medical science liaisons (MSLs).

You will actively contribute to GSK objectives by providing strategic medical input into product development, as well as planning and executing medical-scientific activities in context of the development programs. You will also establish a successful and sustainable liaison with the external medical community and act as the direct interface to the global organization.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead the development, implementation and monitoring of the Oncology Medical Affairs team´s strategic plans
• Drive excellence in external expert engagement skills, including congresses, stand-alone meetings, medical education, advisory boards, scientific communications and publications
• Collaborate with Clinical Development teams and the Emerging Markets/Global Franchise to ensure insights are communicated in a timely way and that clinical trial plans, evidence planning, data gathering, and generation are consistent and aligned to optimize brand strategies
• Oversee development and management of GSK supported, collaborative and investigator sponsored studies
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Commercial leadership team partners to identify customer and patient needs
• Develop innovative strategies and solutions that contribute to the optimal launch of new products and appropriate use of GSK medicines
• Provide input into commercial strategy and marketing plans, involving technical accuracy, fair and balanced information and conformance with prevailing legislation, regulations and internal standard operating procedures
• Act as a senior leader in establishment of medical therapeutic matrix teams to ensure optimal transference of knowledge and skills amongst the Medical team
• Embed a strategic mindset, value creation culture, and process within the medical affairs organization
• Contribute a robust knowledge of the disease area, governance and GSK policies; identifying and assisting in management of issues regarding compliance with governance and risk management practices

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• MD, PharmD or PhD with pharmaceutical industry experience
• Extensive leadership experience
• Broad experience working in Onco-Hematology and Oncology field
• Experience working with drug development, regulatory and commercialization process, including clinical trial development

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience treating patients with multiple myeloma or leading pharmaceutical hematology portfolio
• Experience team leader, managing, developing, and motivating a team to deliver results
• Ability to deal with complex environment and make critical decisions in a timely manner
• Experience in identify and assessing the needs of key decision makers and stakeholders and building effective relationships
• Experience in setting high performance standards and measures, driving accountability throughout the function and mentoring staff
• Strong collaboration, documentation and presentation skills, demonstrated superior verbal, written, and presentation skills with all levels of staff
• Demonstrated customer focus, integrity and relationship building skills, consensus building skills

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
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

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 environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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