Country Medical Director - South Africa at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Demonstrate strong medical leadership and accountability for overall Medical governance within South Africa across GSK Pharma and Vaccines portfolio, and the management of all the Medical functions.
• Lead the Medical Department in the provision of high quality Medical and Scientific strategic input and insights to the Pharma and Vaccines business and ensure successful execution of the Medical Plans to the desired outcomes and timelines.
• Ensure HCPs (and patients where appropriate) have the correct information to allow evidence-based use of GSK products, though, for example educational programs and scientific / external engagement activities, and to ensure these are in line with GSK standards and values and are therefore in the patient’s best interests.
• Embed the principles of the GSK code of practice within the organization and facilitate the transition to values and principles-based decision making.
• Lead the local Medical Governance Committee (or equivalent), to actively contribute to the local RMCB, and local crisis management committee, to ensure that the highest standards of Medical Governance are practiced within the LOC across all its functions and businesses.
• Governance of specific functions - to ensure that appropriate processes are in place to meet the required standards while responding to Medical Information requests from HCPs and customers.
• Ensure appropriate medical governance oversight and risk management for all Clinical studies conducted in the country, and that subjects and patients are not placed at unnecessary risk. For studies operated through local Clinical Operations, to ensure a focus on quality (in compliance with local regulations, GCP Guidelines and internal SOPs), and performance in line with the Medical-ClinlOps operating model.
• Provide medical leadership, input, and guidance into local HTA submissions and publications.
• Overall accountability for pharmacovigilance, materiovigilance and human safety related activities for all marketed products and products in clinical trials, including all Pharma products, Vaccines

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Medical Degree
• Minimum 5 years’ industry experience in medical functions. This is a senior leadership role requiring sufficient experience in driving medical affairs, clinical operations, pharmacovigilance and medical governance
• Specific therapy area knowledge in current or future GSK therapy area.
• Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas. Experience evaluating and effectively communicating evidence-based medicine.
• Project management certification and /or experience to be able to manage complex projects and teams, ability to work under pressure in cross-project environment.
• Good knowledge of South Africa legislation on advertisement of medical products, registration, renewal of registration, import, storage, and sale of drugs/vaccines.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience working in a multicultural and a matrix organization.
• Post Graduate qualification in management, or pharmaceutical medicine.
• Clinical practice in assigned therapy area.
• Experience in clinical research.
• Strong academic background having participated in or led research projects and authored publications.