Posted Date: Apr 7 2025
Country Medical Director - South Africa
Are you looking for a role where you can provide medical governance oversight to support the implementation brand plans? If so, this is the role for you.
Reporting to Medical Director, Partner Markets with a dotted line to the GM South Africa, this new role will become the single point of leadership, governance and medical execution accountability for all relevant Pharma and Vaccines activities in the medical department of South Africa.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Demonstrate strong medical leadership and accountability for overall Medical governance within South Africa across GSK Pharma and Vaccines portfolio, and the management of all the Medical functions.
- Lead the Medical Department in the provision of high quality Medical and Scientific strategic input and insights to the Pharma and Vaccines business and ensure successful execution of the Medical Plans to the desired outcomes and timelines.
- Ensure HCPs (and patients where appropriate) have the correct information to allow evidence-based use of GSK products, though, for example educational programs and scientific / external engagement activities, and to ensure these are in line with GSK standards and values and are therefore in the patients best interests.
- Embed the principles of the GSK code of practice within the organization and facilitate the transition to values and principles-based decision making.
- Lead the local Medical Governance Committee (or equivalent), to actively contribute to the local RMCB, and local crisis management committee, to ensure that the highest standards of Medical Governance are practiced within the LOC across all its functions and businesses.
- Governance of specific functions - to ensure that appropriate processes are in place to meet the required standards while responding to Medical Information requests from HCPs and customers.
- Ensure appropriate medical governance oversight and risk management for all Clinical studies conducted in the country, and that subjects and patients are not placed at unnecessary risk. For studies operated through local Clinical Operations, to ensure a focus on quality (in compliance with local regulations, GCP Guidelines and internal SOPs), and performance in line with the Medical-ClinlOps operating model.
- Provide medical leadership, input, and guidance into local HTA submissions and publications.
- Overall accountability for pharmacovigilance, materiovigilance and human safety related activities for all marketed products and products in clinical trials, including all Pharma products, Vaccines
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Medical Degree
- Minimum 5 years industry experience in medical functions. This is a senior leadership role requiring sufficient experience in driving medical affairs, clinical operations, pharmacovigilance and medical governance
- Specific therapy area knowledge in current or future GSK therapy area.
- Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas. Experience evaluating and effectively communicating evidence-based medicine.
- Project management certification and /or experience to be able to manage complex projects and teams, ability to work under pressure in cross-project environment.
- Good knowledge of South Africa legislation on advertisement of medical products, registration, renewal of registration, import, storage, and sale of drugs/vaccines.
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Experience working in a multicultural and a matrix organization.
- Post Graduate qualification in management, or pharmaceutical medicine.
- Clinical practice in assigned therapy area.
- Experience in clinical research.
- Strong academic background having participated in or led research projects and authored publications.
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, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:
- Agile and distributed decision-making using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
- Managing individual and team performance.
- Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
- Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
- Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
- Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
- Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
- Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
- Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
- Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.
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.
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as we may close the role early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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 organisation 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, its 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.
Contact information:
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