Southeast Region: LA, AL, GA, SC, & FL

ViiV Healthcare is a global specialty HIV company, the only one that is 100% focused on researching and delivering new medicines for people living with, and at risk of, HIV. ViiV is highly mission-driven in our unrelenting commitment to being a trusted partner for all people living with and affected by HIV. Our aim is to think, act, and connect differently through a focus on education on and treatment for HIV.  We go to extraordinary lengths to deliver the sorts of breakthroughs, both in treatments, care solutions and communities, that really count. We go beyond the boundaries of medicine by taking a holistic approach to HIV through developing and supporting sustainable community programs and improving access to care.  We are fully committed to push through every challenge until HIV/AIDS is eradicated. ViiV has played a significant part in delivering breakthroughs that have turned HIV into a manageable health condition. We offer the largest portfolio of HIV medicines available anywhere, and we continue our work to cater for the widest possible range of needs in response to the HIV epidemic.

We are aware of how much is at stake for those affected by HIV and we show up every day 100% committed to the patients. Our work culture is fast-paced, diverse, inclusive, competitive, and caring. But ViiV isn’t just somewhere to work – it’s a place to belong, an invitation to bring your very best, and a team full of impact-driven team members who are hungry to make a difference.

While we have been improving lives of HIV patients for 30 years, this is an especially exciting time to be at ViiV, as we evaluate novel approaches to treatment and prevention that could further reduce the impact of HIV on individuals and communities.

The Senior Director, Medical Science Liaison (MSL), Southeast will lead and manage a high-performing team of MSLs to drive field medical business performance and advance our company’s strategic medical objectives. In addition to managing a region of MSLs and driving execution, the Senior Director will have expanded responsibility and accountability for developing and managing other leaders in the medical affairs organization. This individual will also have responsibility for coordinating and aligning strategies and initiatives with cross functional business partners in the field to drive seamless, high impact partnershjp, inclusive of appropriate strategic planning, execution, and performance indicators.  Finally, these individuals will take independent accountability for identifying and implementing departmental and organizational strategic plans that are critical to maintaining and innovating high performing teams driving impact for customers, patients and ViiV business. 

This role requires a dynamic leader with strong scientific and business acumen as well as interpersonal skills who can ensure the highest quality scientific engagement with the healthcare community. The Sr. Director, Field Medical (Southeast region) will play a pivotal role in having a tangible impact on improving patient outcomes and contributing to our ultimate vision at ViiV to end the HIV and AIDS epidemic.

This role will provide YOU with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Team Leadership and Management: Lead, oversee, coach, mentor and provide guidance to a team of field medical personnel to ensure high levels of scientific engagement, performance, and professional growth as well as effective territory management.

• People Leadership and Development: Recruit, develop and retain key talent, building an organization that reflects a high performing, diverse and inclusive workforce.

• Strategic Planning & Execution: Accountable for the direction and execution of strategic medical objectives and territory plans. Provide oversight of all account and territory plans.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional business partners to enhance team effectiveness and drive overall team performance ensuring cross-functional ways of working with R&D, Headquarters Medical and Commercial teams.

• Scientific Expertise: Responsible for scientific knowledge and expertise of self and team; Maintains clinical knowledge of the HIV therapeutic area and broad market knowledge including current treatment strategies, current and pending competitors, pipeline, access and coverage and market trends.

• Scientific Engagement: Ensure the team has a robust interface with external experts, healthcare professionals, and industry experts to gather insights and drive high quality scientific engagement.

• Business Performance: Analyze and leverage scientific and performance data to provide actionable insights that support business development, product strategies, and regional/global clinical development strategies for Phase II through IV clinical plans.

• Training and Development: Ensure team is are well-trained with the latest scientific information and core industry compliance standards; Cultivate proficiency in core competencies and develop direct reports in the field

• Compliance and Quality: Responsible for team compliance of all field medical activities with applicable regulatory guidelines and company policies, maintaining the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct, including documentation. Provide medical coordination of appropriate regional risk management activities for ViiV Healthcare.

• Clinical Trial Support: Lead MSL support of ViiV US sponsored and supported research in specific region, including identifying and selecting appropriate investigators to participate in clinical trials, providing support to Clinical teams and investigators to increase subject enrollment, retention, and site performance.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Advanced degree in medical OR health sciences OR clinical discipline (MD, DO, PharmD, NP, PA)

• 10 plus years of pharmaceutical experience in medical affairs, including 5 plus years of field medical experience.

• Matrix leadership experience

• People Management experience

• Experience managing Key Stakeholders

• Experience with regulatory requirements

• Ability to travel up to 70% of the time

• Valid Driver's License

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• HIV Expertise

• Experience with strategic business planning and execution.

• Strategic thinking and planning, effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills, strong stakeholder engagement and relationships, leadership, and communication skills; proven ability to build high-performing teams that excel through their engagement skills and scientific and medical expertise

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Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.
• Building a resilient organisation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

*This is a job description to aide in the job posting, but does not include all job evaluation details.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program ViiV offers US employees. All ViiV employees receive the same benefits options and plans as GSK employee.

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.

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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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