Associate Director, Epidemiology (Infectious Disease)

Associate Director - Epidemiology

The Associate Director in Epidemiology will support the development of asset or disease specific epidemiology strategy and providing scientific leadership in the application of epidemiological expertise and methods to inform internal and external decision-making across all phases of medicine development to increase efficiency and effectiveness of delivering medicines to patients.

This position functions within the Epidemiology Department, which contributes to the successful development of new medicines. Our staff in Epidemiology provide leadership and expertise to develop and execute the Epidemiology strategy across the entire spectrum of drug development, from early discovery to registration and lifecycle management.

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

• Maintain and expand an epidemiology support strategy aligned with the medicine development strategy, utilizing your expertise in epidemiology and the disease area.
• Improve disease understanding relevant to medicine development, including but not limited to: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history course, treatment patterns, co-morbidities, co-medications/vaccinations, outcome measures, serotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and their variations across demographics and geographies.
• Support and be accountable for advising scientifically on Real World Evidence strategies.
• Contribute to medication safety evaluation by providing background event rates, synthesizing existing evidence including through meta-analyses, and identifying high-risk populations.
• Propose and lead post-marketing activities, including risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, and post-authorization studies supporting benefit/risk evaluation.
• Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and generate new evidence through delivery of specific research plans/protocols and analysis of healthcare databases available within GSK.
• Develop strong partnerships with internal stakeholders in a multi-disciplinary framework (clinical, safety, regulatory, health outcomes, asset leadership) to meet product needs.
• Plan resource allocation to accomplish multiple research projects and attain project and study timelines.
• Identify innovative, timely, and cost-effective methods to conduct epidemiologic studies.
• Propose and negotiate the content of epidemiologic strategy and budget with matrix leaders.
• Communicate study findings effectively to relevant internal and external audiences.
• Provide input into regulatory submission documents and represent the function to regulatory agencies as required.
• Participate in departmental initiatives aimed at driving innovative solutions through evaluation and creation of tools, methodologies, or processes.
• May contribute to advancing the science through membership or leadership of external initiatives (e.g., ICPE, IMI).

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Doctoral degree (PhD., ScD or DrPH) in epidemiology (preferred) or a relevant discipline (i.e., health services research, health outcomes research, public health, statistics, or pharmaceutical sciences)
• At least one year experience conducting pharmacoepidemiologic research in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in an academic or government setting. 

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Expertise in infectious disease epidemiology
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently to develop credibility with colleagues within and outside Epidemiology, as well as interact effectively in multi-disciplinary matrix teams to influence decisions.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings.
• Broad experience in collaborating with research partners
• Problem-solver; ability