Medical Lead, Chronic Hepatitis B

At GSK, the Medical Lead, Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB), is responsible for acting as the medical affairs and principal scientific expert for the CHB therapeutic area/disease. This role provides strategic medical affairs leadership for assets (marketed and in development), fosters external scientific engagement, and collaborates across departments to promote the appropriate use of our medicines for Canadian patients.

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

• Lead the scientific and external engagement strategy for the CHB assets/disease area in Canada and drive execution in partnership with MSL Manager, Medical Advisor, and Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs).

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (e.g., Market Access, Regulatory, External Affairs, and Commercial) and contribute as a member of the Specialty Care Medical Affairs Leadership team.

• Recognized as a trusted partner to Commercial by providing medical guidance and input, aligning on engagement strategy, and supporting compliant promotional initiatives.

• Generate, synthesize, and translate the medical voice of the customer and market into actionable insights that feed into both medical and brand strategy to enable appropriate use of GSK medicines for patients in Canada.

• Partner with Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) to generate evidence that demonstrates product value and anticipates the needs of regulators, payers, healthcare professionals (HCPs), and patients.

• Accelerate research and expand the clinical value of the pipeline by optimizing the clinical–medical partnership and identifying evidence-generation opportunities.

• Advocate for the data required to support successful commercialization, including support for access, reimbursement, and guidelines where appropriate.

• Contribute to patient safety by reporting, in a timely manner, all adverse events identified through customer interactions in accordance with internal policies and training, including receipt of follow-up information.

Why You?
This role is offered as a hybrid position in our Mississauga office. Domestic travel across Canada will be required to engage stakeholders and attend meetings.

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

• MD, PharmD, PhD, or other advanced degree in a scientific/clinical discipline; relevant medical affairs experience may be considered in lieu of specific degree requirements.

• 3-5 years of experience in medical affairs and/or clinical development within pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.

• Demonstrated disease-area knowledge in hepatology, infectious diseases, virology, or related therapeutic areas (Chronic Hepatitis B strongly preferred).

• Proven ability to lead medical strategy and translate scientific/clinical evidence into actionable plans and insights.

• Specialty care/precision medicine asset launch experience in the pre, peri and post-launch spaces.

• Experience partnering cross-functionally (e.g., Commercial, Market Access/HEOR, Regulatory) while maintaining strong compliance and scientific integrity.

• Strong external engagement capabilities, including scientific exchange with HCPs and key opinion leaders.

• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) with the ability to influence without authority.

• Ability to travel within Canada as required.

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

• Experience leading asset or disease-area medical plans at the national level.

• Experience with evidence generation across RWE, outcomes research, and/or value dossiers in partnership with HEOR and market access.

• Prior people leadership and/or leadership of matrix teams (e.g., medical advisor team leadership).

• Familiarity with the Canadian healthcare environment, including reimbursement pathways, payer evidence needs, and stakeholder landscape.

• Experience supporting launch readiness and commercialization activities in a compliant manner.

• Fluency in both English and French (written and spoken).

What you will bring
You bring clear, direct communication and a collaborative mindset. You are organized and responsive under pressure. You put patients at the center of your work and act with integrity. You seek to learn and grow with your team. If this role feels like the next step for your career, we encourage you to apply and tell us how you will contribute to improving patient care in Canada.

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Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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