Director Epidemiology Respiratory

Position Summary

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting‑edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing.

This Director, Epidemiology – Respiratory will provide scientific leadership in applying epidemiology methods to answer key challenges across all phases of medicine development for a respiratory asset, delivering new medicines more efficiently and effectively to patients.

• Develop and maintain an epidemiology strategy aligned to the drug development strategy.
• Improve disease understanding relevant to drug development: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history, treatment patterns, co‑morbidities, co‑medications, outcome measures, phenotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and variations across demographics and geographies.
• Support and advise scientifically on Real World Evidence strategies.
• Contribute to medication safety evaluation: provide background event rates, synthesize existing evidence including meta‑analyses, and identify high‑risk populations.
• Propose and lead post‑marketing activities: risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection, inference, and post‑authorization studies of treatment benefit and risk.
• Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and create new evidence through delivery of specific research plans, protocols, and analysis of healthcare databases.
• Develop strong partnerships with internal stakeholders across clinical, safety, regulatory, health outcomes, and asset leadership to meet product needs.
• Plan resource allocation to accomplish multiple research projects and achieve project and study timelines.
• Identify innovative, timely, and cost‑effective methods to conduct epidemiologic studies.
• Negotiate internal project funding and negotiate research plans with external collaborators, including academia or contract research organizations.
• Communicate study findings to relevant internal and external audiences and input into regulatory submission documents.
• Represent the function to regulatory agencies and present the company position on epidemiology issues.
• Extend a track record of external publications in peer‑reviewed journals supporting asset teams.
• Strengthen the position of the Epidemiology group as a recognized leader in the application of epidemiology to drug development.

• Doctoral degree (PhD, ScD or DrPH) in epidemiology (preferred) or a relevant discipline such as health services research, health outcomes research, public health, statistics, or pharmaceutical sciences.
• Clinical degree (e.g., medicine, pharmacy, nursing) and a master’s degree in epidemiology with at least five years of experience leading pharmaco‑epidemiologic research in a drug development environment.
• Demonstrable experience leading pharmaco‑epidemiologic or translational epidemiology research programmes in a drug development environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings.

• Expertise in the epidemiology of respiratory conditions.
• Self‑motivated with the ability to work independently and develop credibility with colleagues within and outside Epidemiology.
• Broad experience collaborating with research partners and ability to demonstrate strategic thinking and problem resolution to fill evidence gaps.
• Ability to work well within a business‑driven environment, balance priorities, and handle multiple tasks through careful planning, stakeholder management, project administration, and organizational skills.
• Record of high‑quality, peer‑reviewed epidemiology and/or outcomes research publications and/or demonstrated leadership in external scientific societies/industry‑wide collaboration.
• Experience leading epidemiology research in the U.S. and EU.

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