Director, ABPI Governance & Medical Signatory Excellence

We are a specialist pharmaceutical company 100% dedicated to developing medicines to treat and prevent HIV.

As the pioneers in HIV innovation, we constantly look to push the boundaries of science to develop medicines that can change lives and give people more choice. Beyond our medicines, we are proud of our deep connection with the HIV community and work with partners to advance research and development, address HIV-related stigma, increase access to our medicines and provide funding and support to local community organisations to support their efforts in the HIV response.

We are ViiV Healthcare. Here until HIV and AIDS are not.
 

Position Summary

You will provide enterprise leadership for ABPI Code governance, medical signatory excellence, and compliant scientific communication across ViiV. Act as the organisation’s senior expert on the interpretation, application, and evolution of the ABPI Code, ensuring compliant promotional and non‑promotional activities globally and in the UK. Strengthen medical governance frameworks, mitigate compliance risk, and uphold scientific integrity and corporate reputation.

This is a individual contributor role, requiring hands‑on technical expertise, personal accountability for complex ABPI Code assessments, and direct involvement in high‑risk, high‑impact scientific and promotional review and decision‑making, alongside providing strategic leadership and guidance to the wider organisation.

Key Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Serve as the senior ABPI Code authority, providing expert interpretation, strategic direction, and governance across ViiV healthcare including the impact on markets ex-UK and cross functional teams.

• Act as a nominated Final Medical Signatory, conducting expert review and certification of complex, high visibility, or high risk materials and activities.

• Lead the global medical signatory community, setting standards, capabilities, and performance expectations to drive excellence and consistency in decision making.

• Own and evolve global ABPI governance frameworks, policies, and approval pathways to ensure efficient, predictable, compliant processes.

• Oversee escalations, including PMCPA/MHRA cases, inter‑company dialogue, and complex compliance issues requiring senior adjudication.

• Provide proactive risk assessment and mitigation for launches, scientific platform development, external engagement strategies, and major content initiatives.

• Shape scientific and claims substantiation standards, ensuring evidence based, balanced, and compliant medical and promotional communication.

• Lead capability building programmes for signatories, reviewers, medical/scientific teams, and cross functional stakeholders.

• Advise senior leadership, including the Chief medical officer, global medical leads, regional medical and commercial heads on ABPI topics influencing strategy and reputation.

• Represent ViiV/GSK in external and cross industry forums, contributing to policy shaping, Code interpretation harmonisation, and future ABPI/EFPIA developments.

Why You?

We will love your high accountability for impact performance, your ambition for patients and strategic curiosity, and your collaboration and influence abilities. Your passion for our mission and purpose of getting ahead of HIV together will enthuse us! How you work is as important as what you deliver.

Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• UK registered Medical Doctor (GMC) or Pharmacist (GPhC).

• Expert‑level knowledge of ABPI, EFPIA, PAGB, and MHRA Blue Guide.

• Experience as a nominated Final Medical Signatory under the ABPI Code.

• Demonstrated leadership in ABPI governance, decision making, compliance frameworks, and/or complaint resolution.

• Strong ability to evaluate scientific evidence, claims substantiation, and risk benefit communication.

• High judgement in resolving ambiguous or high stakes compliance issues.

• Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• Experience developing training, capability frameworks, and inspection ready systems.

• Ability to manage cross functional decision making and governance processes.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience shaping cross functional governance or enterprise systems.

• Medical leadership in a global or regional role.

• Experience in launch excellence, scientific platform development, and evidence review.

How to apply

We want to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a short cover note that explains why this role matters to you and how your experience matches the role. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and lived experiences.

Closing Date: 7th May 2026

Location:

Hybrid working applies to this role and it is based at our UK HQ, Central London. (2/3 days a week onsite).

Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 40 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV. 

We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.

Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities.

Having a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.

ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law

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