Position Summary

Director, Epidemiology, Respiratory – responsible for scientific leadership in applying epidemiological expertise and methods across all phases of drug development to deliver new medicines more efficiently and effectively to patients.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 their variations across demographics and geographies.
• Advise scientifically on Real World Evidence strategies.
• Contribute to medication safety evaluation: provide background event rates, synthesize existing evidence (including meta‑analyses), identify high‑risk populations.
• Propose and lead post‑marketing activities: risk evaluation and mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, 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 available within GSK.
• Develop strong partnerships with internal stakeholders in a multi‑disciplinary framework (clinical, safety, regulatory, health outcomes, asset leadership) to meet product needs.
• Plan resource allocation to accomplish multiple research projects and attain project and study timelines.
• Identify innovative, timely and cost‑effective methods to conduct epidemiologic studies.
• Negotiate internal funding of projects.
• Develop and negotiate research plans with external collaborators in academia or contract research organizations and work effectively with vendors for outsourced studies.
• Communicate study findings to relevant internal and external audiences effectively.
• Input into regulatory submission documents and represent the function to regulatory agencies as required.
• Present the company position on epidemiology issues and findings to regulatory agencies and other external authorities.
• Extend a track record of external publications in peer‑reviewed journals in support of asset teams.
• Strengthen the position of the Epidemiology group as a recognized leader in the application of epidemiology to drug development.

Basic Qualifications

• A combination of academic training and practical experience in epidemiology is required. This may consist of:
  • Doctoral degree (PhD, ScD or DrPH) in epidemiology (preferred) or a relevant discipline (e.g. 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 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in epidemiology of respiratory conditions.
• Self‑motivated with the ability to work independently to develop credibility with colleagues within and outside Epidemiology, and to interact effectively in multi‑disciplinary matrix teams to influence decisions.
• Broad experience in collaborating with research partners.
• 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 in leading epidemiology research in the US and EU.

EEO Statement

GSK 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.