Director, Clinical Sciences, Oncology

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

As the Director of Clinical Sciences, Oncology, you will be responsible for developing and leading GSK medium and long-term oncology development strategies for GSK’s oncology pipeline. You will work closely within a matrix organization to ensure that the oncology clinical team have the highest quality capabilities and expertise. You will also ensure the optimal launch of new products and appropriate optimal patient use of currently available GSK Medicines through leadership and collaboration.

Please note: This position requires an on-site office -based presence 2 to 3 days a week in the Waltham- MA.; UK (London or Stevenage); Upper Providence- PA.; Switzerland (Zug); or Poland (Warsaw).

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

In this role you will:

• Ensure delivery of quality study strategy and design, understand the analysis and interpretation of data throughout the study.
• Lead or contribute, as appropriate, to the end to end (protocol concept to final study report) delivery of clinical development activities which ensure consistency with the clinical development strategy for regulatory approvals, reimbursable medicines, and successful lifecycle management; demonstrate ability to incorporate global considerations into strategic and operational decisions.
• Understand the asset’s biological mechanism, clinical strategy, scientific interpretation of disease and target-based literature.
• Integrate data from internal, and external academic, conference and competitor sources. Appropriately interact with Key External Experts (KEEs), Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), collaborators, advisory boards, etc.
• Implement new business processes and strategies and may also proactively identify issues and propose strategies to manage implications and risks on clinical study/Clinical Development plan (CDP). Ensure the high quality of protocol documents are developed aligned to the CDP to effectively determine a medicine’s potential efficacy, safety profile, key areas of product differentiation and value to patient in the shortest possible timeframe.
• Drive/contribute to clinical components of the IB, and documents for regulatory submissions and advisory requirement, including scientific advice, IND, EoP2, pre-NDA/BLA meetings, NDA/BLA and MAA documents.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Advanced degree (e.g. MS, PhD, PharmD) is required
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Oncology experience preferred.
• Experience in the Pharmaceutical industry with specific experience leading a team with progressively more senior positions and responsibility
• Experience in clinical development
• Project Management experience
• Experience and understanding of the drug development, regulatory and commercialization process, including clinical trial development.
• Strong communication skills appropriate to the target audience, promoting effective decision-making where necessary. Good leadership and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of disease-specific research priorities, public health needs, competitor landscape, clinical practice trends and treatment guidelines evolution
• Knowledge of worldwide regulatory and safety requirements as pertains to drug development, research projects, and/or market support.
• Experience managing, developing and motivating a team to deliver results in a timely manner
• Ability to identify, hire, and coach talent to improve performance
• Experience in change management, restructuring, and building capabilities
• Strong team leadership skills in line management and matrix environments
• Experience identifying, assessing and understanding the needs of key decision makers and stakeholders and building effective relationships in a matrixed environment
• Experience in setting high performance standards and measures, driving accountability throughout the function and mentoring staff

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,