Global Head of Digital Health Innovation & Partnerships

Working in collaboration across leaders and teams in ViiV, the Director, Digital Health Innovation Implementation will lead the development of new digital partnerships and products for our current and future pharmaceutical products. Their role is expected to drive core company commercial strategies based on identifying what patients and consumers, providers, payers, and other stakeholders will expect in future integrated systems where medical products and digital services work seamlessly together to optimize patient outcomes. It is expected this role will play a world-leading and pioneering role in enabling the next generation of products and services for people living with HIV and people at risk of HIV.

Please note that this is a HQ role & will be based out of either GSK House (UK) or Durham, NC. The successful candidate is eligible for a full relocation package. This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead and support strategy development and assessment of innovations and new external engagement opportunities for ViiV globally – innovation areas include but are not exclusive to digital tools to support health outcomes and product use, diagnostic technologies, connected device technologies, AI, digital tools in clinical trials, end-to-end telehealth services, collaborations between digital health innovation strategies and R&D planning.
• Identify opportunities for synergies across innovation strategies for multiple products and geographies.
• Support and manage the development of new strategic engagements with top-of-field external organizations to enable our innovation priorities.
• Support and manage new market research to pressure test innovation hypotheses.
• Support and manage the testing and scaling of new programs, working with partners across the business including finance, brands, tech, regulatory, legal and compliance.
• Lead communications strategy on prioritized innovation areas as we develop new programs, including senior/executive leadership.
• Represent ViiV at global conferences focused on our prioritized innovation areas.
• Define business cases, plans and model(s) to enable collaborations and the establishment of new programs.
• Ongoing oversight of network of innovation programs once established.

Why you?

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

• 5 plus years working in digital health innovation strategy role(s) in life sciences.
• 5 plus years leading innovation strategies / new program development in life sciences.
• 5 plus years of project management experience including negotiation skills, internal stakeholder management, consumer engagement/growth hacking skills.

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

• Strong demonstration of independent working skills, motivated self-starter.
• Demonstration of broad entrepreneurial/innovation background and experience in digital health, especially in telehealth innovation, data and insights, and connected devices.
• Demonstration of ambitious innovating problem solving focused on solving large scale problems.
• Previous work experience in HIV or related infectious disease therapeutic areas.
• Previous work in medical product development.
• Previous work experience in market research.
• Data and insights strategy experience.
• MBA and/or similar experiences.
• Management consultant and/or similar experiences.

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV. We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK. Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a diverse team and a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.