Head Of Us, Global Real World Evidence & Health Outcomes Research

Head of US, Global Real World Evidence & Health Outcomes Research Apply

locations: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

time type: Full time

posted on: Posted 14 Days Ago

job requisition id: 404865

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a global healthcare company committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better, and live longer. We discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products, and we are dedicated to our mission of helping people around the world.

At GSK, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace that reflects the communities we serve. We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages, opportunities for professional development, and a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and integrity.

The Chief Patient Organization led by the Chief Patient Officer is accountable for bringing external perspectives of thought leaders, academic institutions, and patient groups, along with internal insights, to elevate the patient voice and shape company strategy. This means GSK will deliver differentiated vaccines and medicines that address the unmet needs of people around the world - better and faster.

The Head of US, Global Real-World Evidence & Health Outcomes Research will be the overall leader of the non-interventional data generation team for the US business. Accountabilities include management and development of a team of leaders and scientists with expertise in real-world evidence and other non-interventional study methods. This role will ensure that team members engage closely with US and global medical teams and other matrix stakeholders and partners to plan and design data generation plans (DGPs) for priority assets across the US business, drive disciplined execution of studies and activities, translate results and disseminate data and research findings to all relevant internal and external stakeholders.

This role will lead the US team to deliver relevant, innovative and high impact evidence to meet the needs of external stakeholders such as health care professionals, scientific communities, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and recommending bodies, patient and advocacy groups and other material stakeholders. The role will work with senior cross-functional leadership in medical affairs, market access, commercial, LoCs to ensure deliverables from this team are strategically aligned, transparent and timely. This role will ensure evidence generation projects conducted by this team comply with GSK SOPs and external regulatory and research standards.

This role will bring together and consolidate pre-existing teams and will need a clear vision of how to structure and build these groups for the future. This includes development of NIS research capability, harnessing new and exciting innovations, optimizing resources in alignment with portfolio priorities and ensuring capacity to deliver endorsed evidence generation strategies and plans. The role presents a unique opportunity to shape something new, setting a high bar in the structuring and future delivery of non-interventional research for the US business. This role will require active engagement with other senior leaders, external thought partners and will need to exert significant influence across a diverse range of stakeholders both internal and external.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following… Provide leadership, management, and development of the therapy area team, including recruitment and capability building, support, and improvement opportunities through best practice sharing to create high performing, quality assured resources which support the business.
Provide advice and guidance for best practice in evidence methodologies, including enabling external scientific advice, ensuring appropriate protocol review committee's advice sought and incorporated.
Drive innovation across the TA, inform ideas and options through effective engagement with external experts, HTA agencies, methodology and policy forums, and by leveraging knowledge of the external policy and decision maker environment to enable more efficient evidence development for portfolio assets across the lifecycle (e.g. discovery, launching and life cycle management assets).
Facilitate alignment and remove barriers to enable more effective interactions within the complex stakeholder matrix, e.g. clinical, commercial, market access, medical affairs functions.
Negotiate with key stakeholders as to what evidence is and is not developed, weighing risks and benefits to optimize reimbursement opportunities.
Represent GSK in external collaborations, engagement and scientific evidence requirements with scientific partners, reimbursement bodies and other decision makers.
Manage the therapy area team's budget and resources and appoint asset leads and scientists in alignment with portfolio priorities.
Enable appropriate infrastructure to gather and communicate metrics of the impact/value for the therapy area activities which can be communicated to critical audiences internally and externally as required.
Navigate diverse cultures and understand dynamics of health care systems at the country level including country wealth, payer decision making processes and priorities.
Why you? Basic Qualifications:

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

PhD, PharmD, MD or equivalent level qualification in a relevant scientific field.
8+ years of experience in Health Outcomes or evidence generation leadership position.
Other advanced scientific or business degree specialized in Health Outcomes or similar with 10+ years of experience in Health Outcomes work or similar.
Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and ethical guidelines for observational research.
Preferred Qualifications:

If you have these qualifications, it would be a plus:

Proven track record of successful team management and leadership. Excellent analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
Ability to build and maintain effective collaborations with internal and external stakeholders.
Strong organizational and project management skills.
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