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• Oversees the development and execution of the US Medical Affairs Plans across all indications of Nucala, including Asthma, COPD, and EGPA
• Drives effective alignment and synergy where applicable across the individual indications’ medical plans and activities
• Leads and ensures alignment across the entire US Nucala medical matrix of resources, including therapy area physicians/scientists, medical information, health outcomes, and field medical staff, in support of the Nucala franchise
• Direct line management for two to 6 professionals
• Integrates US environment and medical voice of customer (patients, providers, payers) into medical affairs strategy for Nucala and all its indications
• Deeply understands, interprets and applies the external environment and competitive knowledge in all medical plans and can define the medical story for the patient
• Ensures US needs for medical and health outcomes evidence generation are represented and incorporated into the global integrated evidence plan
• Acts as the US medical partner to the Global Medicines Development team and the Nucala Global Medical Affairs Leader to represent US medical needs for the entirety of the Nucala asset.
• Leads appropriate medical engagement between GSK and external communities to advance scientific and medical understanding including the appropriate development and use of our medicines, the management of disease, and patient care
• Applies sound medical governance for all activities and is accountable for medical governance oversight and sign off for all Nucala indications
• Maintains deep product and disease area expertise, and a strong understanding of patient and physician interactions and clinical decision making and impact
• Working with the Respiratory Therapy Area Head, ensures strategic alignment of Nucala positioning and evidence planning with the overall Respiratory portfolio and disease area strategies.
• Implements and creates best Medical Affairs practices for specialty products, in alignment with the Specialty BU and under the guidance of the Specialty Medical Head.
• Aligns medical plans to the needs of the US Business through the medical commercial partnership.
• Sits on both the Respiratory and Specialty TA leadership teams.

• Given the strategic importance of Nucala and the scale/scope of the US business in overall GSK success, this position will be right in the middle of many critical matrix interactions that are key to GSK’s business success. By virtue of this position overseeing all indications for Nucala, it has a critical set of interactions across the entirety of the US medical matrix (therapy area, field medical, medical information, and health outcomes). Second, the position will have regular strategic interactions with commercial to drive overall product strategy and operational alignment between commercial and medical activities. The position also has key interactions at the global level (with central development and other LOCs) in ensure US voice and needs are heard and fully integrated into global medicine plans and integrated evidence plans.
• Although the position is based in the US and has a primary scope in the US, the position requires great influence in terms of ensuring US needs for Nucala are fully integrated into global medical plans and integrated evidence plans. Therefore, the position will be interfacing regularly with global and other LOCs to understand the needs of these different stakeholders and influence their thinking to effectively position US needs.

• Medical degree or science degree with extensive medical affairs experience
• Medical Affairs experience with a respiratory specialty product is required
• Demonstrated relationship-building with the key medical/scientific experts
• Experience working in a matrix environment and managing senior stakeholders effectively
• Effective team and matrix and line management leadership, with proven ability to motivate, influence, negotiate, and collaborate; strong project management skills; solid planning and organizational skills; strong scientific/analytical problem-solving skills.
• Strong business acumen and communication skills (oral and written), including the ability to identify and articulate the value of clinical and heath outcome data to internal stakeholders and external customers.
• Product lifecycle management experience, including the ability to detect and foresee potential changes in the healthcare, regulatory and competitive environments throughout the product lifespan; to understand the impact of new data on the value / positioning of products in guidelines / formularies; and to proactively identify unmet needs and how to address them.
• Robust knowledge of the US healthcare environment including disease-specific research priorities, public health need, competitor landscape, clinical practice trends and treatment guidelines evolution.
• Clinical research/drug development experience obtained while working in the pharmaceutical industry or substantial clinical trial experience collaborating with pharmaceutical sponsors in either the academic or clinical practice setting is desirable.
• Knowledge and experience in late phase trials and solid knowledge of drug development and FDA guidance to industry.
• Excellent communications and leadership skills with a demonstrated ability in building collaborative relationships – ability to work effectively with others, delegate appropriately and foster a culture of collaboration.
• Developing people – ability to develop influencing/leadership skills in others, act as teacher, coach and mentor toward others.

• Physician (M.D. or equivalent). Active or eligibility for a US Medical licensure (or equivalent previously outside of the US) is required.
• Board certification in Pulmonary Medicine or Allergy & Immunology is preferred
• Launch experience is preferred

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.
• Building a resilient organisation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

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