Regional Medical Lead

Business Introduction

At GSK, we are committed to driving innovation and operational excellence across our international region. The Chief Patient Officer (CPO) organization plays a critical role in ensuring strong medical business leadership while fostering the adoption of cutting-edge technology and capability solutions.

The Regional Medical Lead – Innovation Programs is a pivotal role in this effort, ensuring the design, implementation, and optimization of digital tools and capability solutions to enhance the efficiency, impact, and compliance of medical affairs activities. By serving as a bridge between medical strategy, data and technology, and operational excellence, this role will accelerate innovation and improve collaboration across diverse markets.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Regional Head of Medical Strategy, Performance & Operations, the Regional Medical Lead – Innovation Programs works across the international region to design, adopt, and implement digital technology and capability solutions. This role collaborates closely with Regional Medical Operations Managers, Country Medical Directors, Regional Medical Data and Technology Directors, and the country medical excellence network to translate operational challenges into innovative solutions that drive efficiency and enable data-driven decision-making.

The role also contributes to shaping global digital and capability solutions for medical affairs and ensures their pull-through into regional and local markets, balancing consistency and scalability with fit-for-purpose application.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Design: Partner with global, regional, and local stakeholders to identify business needs and input into the design of digital and technology solutions and capability programs that address operational challenges in medical affairs.
• Implementation and Optimization: Lead the regional rollout, adoption, and optimization of new tools, platforms, and processes, ensuring alignment with compliance and governance standards.
• Innovation Culture: Champion a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within medical affairs, providing training, guidance, and support to enhance digital capabilities across teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with global and regional medical data and technology teams, as well as global medical capability colleagues, to integrate medical affairs needs into broader enterprise solutions.
• Feedback and Improvement: Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of implemented solutions, collecting feedback and insights to drive further improvement and maximize business impact.
• Consistency in Execution: Ensure consistent execution across multiple countries, balancing local flexibility with regional/global standards.
• Compliance: Safeguard adherence to all relevant regulations, policies, and ethical standards in the design and deployment of digital tools and processes.

Qualifications/Skills

Basic Qualifications:

• First degree in medical, scientific, data science, or business discipline (or equivalent).
• Experience working in or with medical affairs.
• Proven track record of project management, delivery, and change management.
• Experience in design, development, or execution of solutions for data technology or capability building.
• Exceptional matrix team leadership skills with multiple stakeholders and functions.
• Strong organizational skills to maintain high productivity, innovation, and priority-setting for on-time and on-budget implementation of activities.
• Proven ability to work with integrity, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Strong technical/analytical skills to identify and solve problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for effective interfacing with external agencies, all levels of management, and departments within the company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in medical, scientific, data science, or business discipline (or equivalent).
• Financial negotiation skills with external providers.
• Ability to understand operational challenges and translate them into effective technology or capability solutions.
• Experience spending time in medical affairs business environments alongside MSLs, Medical Leads, and Country Medical Directors to identify needs and shape solutions.
• Strong influencing skills to navigate complexity and lead without authority in a matrix environment.
• Experience in evaluating feedback and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Work Arrangement

This role requires on-site presence with occasional travel across the international region.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to lead innovative programs that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of medical affairs across a dynamic region. Join GSK in driving operational excellence, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making to deliver significant value to stakeholders and customers globally.

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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