Specialty Care Scientific Advisor @ GlaxoSmithKline

Reporting to: Specialty Care Medical Lead

JOB PURPOSE

To provide an expert interface between GSK Medical and the external healthcare community on medical and scientific topics and help ensure the safe and effective use of GSK medicines through appropriate scientific dialogue.

The Scientific Advisor provides scientific and medical leadership for upcoming launches within the respiratory therapeutic area. The role leads the development and execution of the local Medical launch strategy and drives launch readiness through strategic external engagement, insight generation, evidence translation, scientific communication, and internal capability building.

Working closely with the Medical Lead, field Medical colleagues, and relevant cross-functional partners, the role translates global and regional strategy into locally relevant Medical plans and ensures effective execution across the pre-launch, launch, and post-launch phases. All objectives and activities will be aligned with Medical strategy, scientific integrity, applicable governance requirements, and the needs of patients and the external healthcare community.

The key accountabilities of this role are as follows:

Medical launch strategy and readiness

• Lead the development and execution of the local Medical launch strategy and operational plan for designated medicines within the respiratory therapeutic area.
• Drive Medical launch readiness by identifying and addressing key scientific, evidence, stakeholder, educational, and operational gaps across the pre-launch, launch, and post-launch phases.
• Translate global and regional Medical strategies into locally relevant plans reflecting the Korean treatment environment, clinical practice, patient journey, unmet medical needs, and evolving scientific landscape.
• Define Medical launch priorities, milestones, deliverables, and success measures, and track progress against agreed objectives.
• Act as the primary Medical and scientific point of contact for designated launch assets, providing strategic recommendations and scientific leadership to Medical and relevant cross-functional stakeholders.

Strategic external scientific engagement and insights

• Build and maintain trusted peer-to-peer scientific relationships with a broad range of External Experts, Healthcare Professionals, healthcare organizations, and scientific societies relevant to the respiratory therapeutic area.
• Develop and execute a focused external engagement plan based on stakeholder scientific needs, influence on clinical practice, and relevance to Medical and launch priorities.
• Lead high-quality scientific exchange to understand evolving clinical practice, treatment pathways, unmet medical needs, stakeholder beliefs, and evidence needs.
• Gather and synthesize medical voice of customer, unmet medical needs, stakeholder perspectives, and scientific insights, and translate them into actionable recommendations for

Medical strategy, launch planning, evidence generation, and scientific communication.

• Monitor changes in the external scientific environment, guidelines, treatment landscape, and stakeholder beliefs that may affect launch strategy or execution.

Scientific expertise, evidence, and communication

• Maintain deep scientific expertise in relevant respiratory disease areas, mechanisms of disease, treatment pathways, clinical evidence, and the evolving treatment landscape.
• Critically evaluate clinical trial data, real-world evidence, publications, guidelines, and other scientific information, and translate complex evidence into clear, balanced, and audience appropriate scientific narratives.
• Identify local evidence gaps and contribute to the development and execution of evidence generation, publication, data-dissemination, and scientific communication plans relevant to launch.
• Lead or support Medical education activities, advisory boards, scientific meetings, congress initiatives, and other launch-related scientific activities.
• Respond to unsolicited requests for on-label or off-label scientific information and safety concerns from HCPs in accordance with applicable policies and governance requirements.

Cross-functional collaboration and internal capability

• Collaborate with Medical Affairs colleagues and relevant cross-functional partners to ensure integrated and timely launch readiness while maintaining Medical independence and scientific integrity.
• Ensure field Medical colleagues have the scientific knowledge, strategic context, training, materials, and tools required for consistent and high-quality external engagement.
• Act as a trainer and Medical/scientific expert for GSK colleagues regarding the relevant respiratory disease areas, scientific evidence, treatment landscape, and designated launch medicines.
• Chair, facilitate, and present as a Medical and scientific expert in launch meetings, readiness reviews, training sessions, seminars, and cross-functional discussions.
• Partner with global and regional Medical teams to ensure strategic alignment, share local insights and best practices, and adapt relevant initiatives to the Korean healthcare environment.
• Identify potential scientific, operational, governance, or reputational risks related to launch preparation and execution and support appropriate mitigation plans.

Clinical research and evidence generation

• Contribute to clinical research and evidence-generation activities relevant to the therapeutic area, providing scientific input and engaging with investigators and External Experts as appropriate, in collaboration with relevant internal teams.

The required skills of this role to achieve the goals are as follows:

Education and qualification

• Knowledge of life sciences, including medicine, pharmacy, nursing, biology, biomedical science, clinical science, or a related scientific discipline.
• 8+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience in Medical Affairs, clinical development, medical research, or a related scientific role, or a very strong academic and scientific background.
• Experience interpreting, critically evaluating, and communicating complex scientific data, clinical evidence, and statistics.
• Working experience in the respiratory therapeutic area preferred.
• Previous experience leading or supporting a pharmaceutical launch, major indication launch, or launch-critical Medical initiative strongly preferred.
• Experience developing and executing Medical strategy, operational plans, external engagement plans, or evidence-dissemination activities preferred.
• Experience working with local, regional, and global stakeholders within a matrix organization preferred.
• Advanced scientific or healthcare qualification, such as MD, PharmD, PhD, or an equivalent postgraduate degree, preferred.
• Professional fluency in Korean and strong business-level English communication skills.

Core competencies / skills

• Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate scientific evidence and external insights into actionable Medical launch plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead launch-related initiatives and drive progress across Medical and cross-functional teams.
• Sound negotiation, influencing, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage trusted scientific relationships with a broad range of External Experts and healthcare stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, scientific presentation, facilitation, and training skills.
• Ability to critically evaluate scientific evidence and communicate balanced and scientifically accurate conclusions.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize multiple workstreams and deliver against launch timelines.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex matrix environment and collaborate with local, regional, and global stakeholders.
• Sound judgment in managing scientific, governance, compliance, operational, and reputational considerations.
• Proactive, accountable, collaborative, and comfortable working in a dynamic launch environment with evolving priorities.
• Good external scientific credibility and reputation preferred.

*LI-GSK

Skills

Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, External Stakeholder Management, 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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