Senior Director Epidemiology, Oncology

Senior Director Epidemiology, Oncology

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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About the Role

The Global Epidemiology Team provides scientific and strategic leadership in developing and executing real-world evidence strategies to inform drug development across all phases of development. This role is accountable for leading a team of epidemiologists who work across the matrix to support key functions, including Clinical Development, Regulatory, and Safety. This includes the development and implementation of a range of epidemiologic studies and measurement strategies in support of the disease area strategy, investigational assets and marketed products. This position provides leadership through strategic and technical input into programs by managing epidemiologist contributions on disease strategy teams and asset-level teams, such as the Medicine Development Team (MDT), Clinical Development Team (CMT), and Safety Review Team (SRT), and through agenda-drive participation at GSK governance bodies.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Liaising with relevant stakeholders (e.g., Clinical, Safety, Regulatory, etc.) to understand and influence the overarching asset strategy or disease area priorities; clarify the key evidence gaps and translate gaps into epidemiology program strategy
• Providing guidance and support to team members on their development of the specific disease & project support strategy, work priorities, and delivery; conduct scientific review and governance of team members’ work output; discuss and agree performance and development objectives.
• Providing advice and guidance for best practice in epidemiology evidence generation strategies and methodologies, including enabling internal and external scientific advice.
• Leveraging knowledge of the external environment to enable more efficient epidemiology evidence planning, development, and delivery.
• Representing the GSK epidemiology function externally in regulatory meetings, public-private partnerships and at scientific conferences and societies, as required.
• Leading the scientific design of studies and effectively communicate and advocate for the epidemiology program strategy for the therapy area and key assets.
• Leading departmental and divisional initiatives to continuously improve operations and advance innovative science and analytics across GSK.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to junior epidemiologists and other team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative team environment
• Resource planning to ensure efficient key deliverables in alignment with asset or disease area priorities

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Doctoral degree (PhD., ScD or DrPH) in epidemiology
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Epidemiology in a pharmaceutical company

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Ability to work well within a business-driven environment, establish cross-functional relationships, balance priorities and handle multiple tasks through good planning, project administration, and organization skills
• Effective communication skills to interact effectively in multi-disciplinary matrix teams and to influence global stakeholders and key opinion leaders
• Understanding of regulations relevant to application of epidemiology to clinical development and safety
• Demonstrated epidemiological expertise and developing the ability to influence key internal (matrix leaders) and external (regulators) stakeholders specifically around scientifically robust and strategic approaches to delivering epidemiological science to answer key asset challenges.
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