Senior Medical Lead

We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance. Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.

 

Senior Medical Lead

You will lead the strategic medical leadership of the Innovative Specialty portfolio in Türkiye. You will shape therapeutic area strategy, translate scientific innovation into clinical impact, generate actionable healthcare insights and drive medical excellence across the asset lifecycle. You will lead medical strategy development, portfolio planning, scientific engagement and launch readiness for innovative assets, ensuring alignment with local healthcare needs and global and regional medical priorities. In parallel, you will maintain meaningful scientific engagement with external experts and stakeholders, dedicating approximately 50% of your working time to field-based scientific activities that inform strategy, address unmet medical needs and improve patient outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of innovative healthcare solutions through scientific leadership, strategic collaboration and meaningful external engagement.

 

Responsibilities:

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

 

• Own and lead the development, implementation and continuous optimisation of local medical strategies and medical plans for assigned Innovative Specialty assets.

• Lead medical launch readiness planning for innovative assets, ensuring organisational preparedness, scientific excellence and effective external engagement.

• Dedicate approximately 50% of working time to field-based, non-promotional scientific engagement activities across Türkiye.

• Develop and execute pre-launch medical strategies focused on disease awareness, scientific education, treatment landscape understanding and unmet medical needs.

• Identify scientific evidence gaps and support evidence-generation initiatives relevant to the introduction of innovative therapies into clinical practice.

• Provide strategic medical leadership across the asset lifecycle, from pipeline development and pre-launch planning through launch execution and lifecycle management.

• Identify unmet medical needs, evolving treatment paradigms and emerging scientific opportunities to inform therapeutic area priorities.

• Translate clinical evidence, real-world data and healthcare insights into actionable medical strategies and recommendations.

• Drive medical excellence through evidence-based decision-making, clear prioritisation, effective resource allocation and measurable medical objectives.

• Act as a strategic medical partner to cross-functional leadership teams, providing independent scientific perspectives that inform portfolio and therapeutic area decisions.

 

Why You?

Basic Qualifications

 

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

 

• University degree in Medicine.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, preferably within Medical Affairs.

• Demonstrated experience in developing and executing medical strategies and scientific engagement activities.

• Strong scientific knowledge and ability to critically interpret clinical, epidemiological and real-world evidence.

• Proven ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with external experts, healthcare professionals and scientific stakeholders.

• Experience working within cross-functional teams and contributing to strategic discussions from a Medical Affairs perspective.

• Good understanding of the Turkish healthcare system, clinical practice, regulatory environment and reimbursement landscape.

• Fluency in Turkish and proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

• Willingness and ability to spend approximately 50% of working time in the field, including regular travel across Türkiye.

 

Preferred Qualifications

 

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

 

• Previous Medical Affairs experience in hepatology, infectious diseases or gastroenterology

• Demonstrated experience in strategic medical planning, therapeutic area leadership and portfolio management.

• Experience leading medical launch readiness activities, pre-launch scientific engagement and the introduction of innovative medicines.

• Strong understanding of evolving treatment landscapes, unmet medical needs and the clinical adoption of innovative therapies.

• Proven ability to translate field medical insights, clinical evidence and healthcare trends into actionable medical strategies.

• Experience in real-world evidence generation, investigator-initiated studies, scientific publications or local research collaborations.

 

Working model

This is a hybrid role combining strategic medical leadership, portfolio responsibilities and substantial external scientific engagement. Approximately 50% of working time will be dedicated to field-based scientific activities across Türkiye, including direct engagement with healthcare professionals, external experts and scientific stakeholders. Regular domestic travel is an essential requirement of the position.

The remaining working time will focus on medical strategy development, portfolio planning, launch readiness, cross-functional collaboration, evidence generation and operational responsibilities.

 

What you will bring

You are a scientifically credible and strategically minded medical professional who combines strong therapeutic area expertise with a passion for improving patient outcomes. You demonstrate ownership, accountability and the ability to translate scientific innovation into meaningful medical strategies. You are confident in engaging external experts, interpreting complex scientific evidence and influencing cross-functional decisions through credible medical leadership. You bring curiosity, agility, collaboration and innovative thinking, balancing strategic priorities with effective field execution. Above all, you are motivated by the opportunity to advance scientific innovation and contribute to meaningful improvements in patient care.

 

 

Why GSK?

 

You will join a team focused on patient outcomes and scientific excellence. You will have development opportunities and access to global expertise. You will work in a supportive environment that values inclusion, respect and open feedback. If you are ready to use your clinical knowledge and relationship skills to make a difference, please apply today. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

 

GSK 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. #LI-Hybrid

 

 

 

Skills

Cross-Functional Leadership, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, High Impact Communication, Launch Excellence, Patient Impact

 

 

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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