Business Introduction
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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Position Summary
The Vaccines Clinical Sciences Cluster Head is a core member of the Vaccines Clinical Sciences Leadership Team and acts as the single point of accountability for the integrated Clinical Development Plan (CDP), contributing to the disease area strategy with input from both internal GSK leaders and external experts, including academic thought leaders and regulatory authorities. This role is responsible for ensuring the delivery of robust CDPs that explore new areas of interest and alternative development pathways, enabling smart risk-taking for assets within the disease area. The Vaccines Clinical Sciences Cluster Head drives innovation in the design of CDPs and study protocols, accessing world-class expertise through collaboration and harnessing digital, technological, and statistical tools to support all development stages. They provide Clinical/Medical Governance, managing and mentoring clinical staff, ensuring proper training and compliance, and fostering Clinical Development Excellence through talent identification, recruitment, and retention. Additionally, this role ensures the quality of all clinical deliverables, including documents, submissions, and clinical data, through peer review and knowledge sharing, and oversees high-quality presentations to regulatory bodies. The Vaccines Clinical Sciences Cluster Head also acts as a Data Steward for the disease area, manages resources across clinical projects, and leads project oversight to ensure timely delivery of clinical programs.

Responsibilities

Clinical Development

• Accountable for the clinical development planning of assets within their disease area, ensuring alignment with key clinical stakeholders and providing clinical/medical overview over the CDP.
• Lead interpretation and critical evaluation of study results with respective clinical development leaders.

Disease Expert Input and Resource Allocation

• Accountable for allocating appropriate disease expert input to the appropriate Project Team (e.g. Vaccine Development Team) to support the delivery of Vaccines target profiles.
• Manage and allocate clinical personnel across projects and programs within the disease area portfolio, ensuring appropriate resourcing.

Disease Area Strategy

• Accountable to work with the Head of Vaccines Clinical Sciences to set forward the disease area strategy for clinical development, ensuring it is informed by world-class expertise and aligned with business goals.
• Lead the external scientific insight strategy for the disease area, incorporating input from scientific experts, patients, physicians, payers, and regulators.

Regulatory and Scientific Integrity

• Accountable for the accuracy and scientific integrity of clinical input to regulatory documents and meetings with global impact, overseeing asset-level Clinical Development Leaders.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality regulatory documentation and packages to support desired indications.

Medical Governance

• Accountable for providing globally integrated medical governance of clinical research, ensuring scientific integrity and overall safety of study subjects.
• Support interactions with Medical Affairs and Global Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance leaders to maintain robust medical governance.

Pipeline Productivity and Simplification

• Enhance delivery and improve end-to-end pipeline productivity by driving clear disease area strategies, aligned Vaccine product profiles, and Clinical Development Plans.
• Drive simplification and reduce complexity across R&D, exploring opportunities for optimal resourcing models and risk mitigation.

Organizational Decision-Making

• Enhance organizational decision-making by supporting optimal project-level decisions, promoting innovative trial designs, and considering alternative development pathways for smart risk-taking.
• Embed Clinical Trial Representativeness principles throughout the clinical development program.

R&D Commercial Interface

• Improve the R&D Commercial interface by ensuring that patient, physician, and payer insights are incorporated for all clinical-stage assets.
• Foster collaboration to strengthen evidence generation plans and portfolio delivery beyond market authorization approval.

Talent Management and Leadership Development

• Accountable for robust talent management, focusing on improving leadership across clinical members through mentoring, coaching, and succession planning.
• Ensure inclusion and participate in peer reviews and "Grand Rounds" to share learnings and best practices.

Strategic Collaboration and Capability Development:

• Foster collaboration with Epidemiologists, Medical Affairs, and Clinical Development Leaders to strengthen evidence generation plans
• Ensure support for implementing cross-cutting priorities such as Real-World Evidence, R&D Franchise optimization, and Digital Data Strategy.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

• Medical Doctor 
• Completion of a formal postgraduate clinical training, clinical residency or specialty training in Infectious Diseases, Pediatric, Internal Medicine or related field.
•  Experience in vaccines clinical development, including in late phase clinical trials of vaccines
• People Leadership experience, including ability to lead and inspire teams and allocate resources strategically
• Experience in working cooperatively with stakeholders in scientific, academic, regulatory and political communities
• Ability to produce scientific communications with clarity, accuracy and rigour
• Understanding of scientific, medical, regulatory and digital data environments, practices and requirements

Preferred Qualifications

In addition to the above, you will stand out if you bring the following:

• Prior experience of working pneumococcal / bacterial vaccines
• Understanding of local and global pharmaceutical industry, competitive landscape, how end-to-end life and revenue cycles operate
• Proven track record of effectively applying medical expertise to make good clinical decisions, in accordance with appropriate SOPs, policies, guidance and codes

Working Model and Location
- This role is based in Belgium, UK, Italy of the USA
- The role is hybrid, combining on-site collaboration with remote work flexibility. Expect regular on-site presence for team and cross-functional activities.



How to apply
We welcome applications from people with diverse career paths and experiences. If you are excited by this role and the chance to help bring vaccines to patients, please apply. We look forward to learning how your skills and ambitions align with this opportunity.

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

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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