Europe Medical Affairs Head, Lung - Oncology

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Reporting to: VP the lung strategy is delivered through them, making influence, scientific credibility and collaboration critical to success.

Key responsibilities 1.

• Lead the European lung medical network
• Map and build the lung oncology medical community across Europe, including key external experts and centres.
• Define and establish strategic partnerships with cooperative groups, registries, academic centres and patient organisations, selected on their scientific and network impact.
• Synthesise insights from the European network into clear regional medical positions and advocate these with global development and evidence teams so that global plans reflect European needs and reality. 2.
• Shape evidence for European access
• Define early real-world evidence (RWE) needs for lung oncology in Europe, in close collaboration with Access, HTA and global evidence partners.
• Lead the development of PICO-aligned evidence strategies in the context of the EU HTA Regulation (HTAR) and mandatory Joint Clinical Assessments (JCA).
• Provide regional direction on phase IIIb/IV programmes, collaborative studies and investigator-sponsored research (ISR) in lung, in line with GSK SOPs and governance. 3.
• Drive launch readiness across countries
• Set the regional medical launch plan per indication and define minimum medical standards and deliverables for each country.
• Own the scientific narrative and regional medical plan for lung across indications and lifecycle.
• Lead structured readiness reviews against agreed milestones and provide transparent reporting on status, risks and mitigation to regional and global stakeholders. 4.
• Lead and influence through the matrix
• Provide functional leadership to country medical leads in lung oncology, aligning local execution with the regional strategy.
• Partner closely with Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, R lung cancer experience is essential, experience in other solid tumours is an advantage.
• Demonstrated European launch experience, including pre-launch, launch and post-launch phases for at least one first-in-market indication.
• Experience in regional or global medical roles, or senior in-country roles with clear global exposure.
• Proven track record of external engagement with oncology experts, cooperative groups and congresses, with evidence of translating insights into strategy and/or evidence generation decisions.
• Working knowledge of HTA and evidence planning in Europe, including practical understanding of HTAR and JCA implications.
• Fluent in written and spoken English; an additional European language is an advantage.

Preferred qualifications oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

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