Governance and Best Practices Lead, Global Scientific Communications

The Governance and Best Practices Lead in the Global Scientific Communications organization is responsible for developing and implementing best practices and ways of working across Scientific Communications deliverables, establishing and enforcing communication standards and governance policies, and aligning strategy and governance to overarching global medical objectives. This role involves ensuring that GSK’s data dissemination initiatives adhere to company and industry-level standards and best practices in the delivery of impactful integrated medical communication plans (IMCPs).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and execution of best practices and processes for Scientific Communications IMCP deliverables across therapeutic areas (TAs) to address unmet audience needs, ensuring alignment with GSK’s scientific communications objectives.
• Ensure consistency and quality across all IMCP deliverables by establishing clear guidelines and processes in partnership with key partners: CPO (Chief Patient Organization), R&D, Tech, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and external partners.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in collaboration with Procurement and medical stakeholders to elevate the quality of scientific communications deliverables and methodologies with key agency partners.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive communication standards and governance policies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
• Monitor adherence to established communication standards and governance policies across the organization, providing resolution as needed
• Lead training and support to teams to ensure understanding and implementation of communication standards and policies.
• Develop and implement governance frameworks for IMCPs that support the strategic goals of the global medical organization.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations to leadership to drive alignment and integration of scientific communications activities with global medical objectives.
• Drive functional subject matter expertise in scientific communications to ensure consistency, excellence, and innovative approaches are leveraged across the organization.
• Stay updated on advancements in scientific communications to ensure content and channel approaches continuously evolve with the external landscape.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Post-graduate degree (Masters, Doctoral or Professional) in science, medicine, or pharmacy 
• 7 or more years of experience in scientific communications, medical content design and delivery, or a related field within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry
• Experience in industry-level best practices and guidance to ensure compliant and impactful creation and delivery of scientific communications 
• Experience working with scientific communication platforms, publication standards, narratives, medical content creation, medical channel strategy, and other medical communication deliverables
• Project management experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines and budgets
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional leaders and managing matrix relationships within a global organization
• Experience in developing and delivering medical training materials
• Experience in digital content creation and management tools with technical experience utilizing Excel, PowerPoint, and Team sites
• Experience interpreting, analyzing, organizing, and presenting complex data to a broad range of audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• PhD or PharmD degree
• Local, regional, or global medical or R&D experience with relevant expertise in therapeutic area
• Scientific communication strategies for large global markets in US, UK, EU, China and Japan

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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, 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.

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