Medical and Scientific Advisor (Respiratory) - Final Medical Signatory

Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street

Posted Date: Mar 12 2025

Medical and Scientific Advisor (Respiratory) - Final Medical Signatory

Are you interested in a medical affairs role that leverages your project management expertise to accelerate global medical affairs engagement? If so, this Medical and Scientific Advisor role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

As a Medical and Scientific Advisor, you will be responsible for ensuring adequate therapy area input, maximized leveraging of existing Medical platforms, and aligned implementation of Medical Affairs processes and initiatives across the Medical organization.

As a Medical and Scientific Advisor and acting as a Final Medical Signatory, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of our medical content and materials. Working within a dynamic and collaborative environment, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our communications adhere to regulatory guidelines while effectively conveying the benefits and risks of our products.

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 practices; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

In this role you will:

• Represent business voice, leverage Medical platforms, and lead implementation and support for Medical Affairs processes and projects launched across Global Medical Affairs (GMA) and regions (e.g. Medical Science Liaison practices, Medical Excellence, etc.)
• Uphold the highest compliance standards & provide authoritative opinion on medical and ethical matters to support colleagues across GSK, enabling the evidence-based use of GSK medicines and compliance with the relevant statutory requirements (e.g. ABPI Code of Practice, Medicines Act, and EU Directives).
• Responsible for conducting medical review and ABPI Code signatory examination and certification of materials.
• Writing of GSK’s response to complaints from bodies such as the PMCPA or MHRA – this will typically involve engaging with members of the extended brand team e.g. brand manager, regulatory affairs manager.
• Provide leadership, advice and coaching on how to work compliantly in the execution of UK Pharma Digital Engagement initiatives in order to deliver UK Digital Driven customer experience (DDCx).
• Support creation & delivery of the Medical Digital & Technology plan for Omnichannel.
• Act as formal mentor & coach to new signatories/signatories in training - if on approved UK list.
• Lead, or provide input into, updating and or development of SOPs.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Experience working as a nominated Final Signatory or commensurate experience working in copy approval under the ABPI guidelines in the pharmaceutical industry.
• A GMC-registered doctor or GPhC-registered pharmacist who is able to be a nominated final signatory.
• Effective communication skills.
• Relevant therapy area knowledge desirable but not essential.
• A good understanding of the changing UK health care environment, including understanding of health technology assessments and market access challenges in the UK.
• Broad Pharmaceutical industry experience or equivalent desirable.
• Proactive, self-motivated, self-reliant.

Closing Date for Applications – April 2nd, 2024 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.