Senior Director, Head of Global Medical Governance in London

We are a specialist pharmaceutical company 100% dedicated to developing medicines to treat and prevent HIV. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, our ambition is to end the HIV epidemic. As pioneers in HIV innovation, we constantly push the boundaries of science to develop medicines that can change lives and give people more choice. Beyond our medicines, we are proud of our deep connection with the HIV community and work with partners to advance research and development, address HIV‑related stigma, increase access to our medicines and provide funding and support to local community organisations to support their efforts in the HIV response. We are ViiV Healthcare. Here until HIV and AIDS are not.

The Senior Director, Head of Global Medical Governance provides leadership and strategic oversight of the ViiV Healthcare Global Medical Governance system. The role ensures the consistent, compliant, and effective implementation of medical governance frameworks across ViiV Healthcare, enabling ethical scientific engagement, medical excellence, and alignment with global regulatory and industry standards. This role has a global remit and works closely with senior medical leadership, regional and local medical teams, and cross‑functional stakeholders to embed robust medical governance practices across both promotional and non‑promotional activities.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation, ongoing maintenance, and continuous improvement of the ViiV Healthcare Medical Governance system to ensure effective and consistent medical governance globally.
• Own the development, implementation, and maintenance of global medical governance policies and procedures, ensuring clear expectations, consistent ways of working, and optimal performance of the Medical Governance system.
• Serve as a senior ambassador for Medical Governance across ViiV Healthcare, building strong partnerships with Medical, Commercial, and other cross‑functional teams to ensure medical governance requirements are understood, embedded, and supported within business processes and decision making.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with regional and local medical leads to ensure the global governance framework is effectively embedded and adapted to meet local requirements without compromising global standards.
• Provide expert guidance and support to ViiV Local Operating Companies to embed medical governance initiatives.
• Advise Country Medical Directors on Medical Affairs processes, governance expectations, and compliant ways of working, particularly in relation to both non‑promotional and promotional medical activities.
• Act as a subject matter expert on global external pharmaceutical industry codes and regulations governing promotional and non‑promotional practices, including demonstrated expertise in the ABPI Code of Practice.
• Maintain strong relationship, collaboration and working knowledge of GSK Medical Governance frameworks, systems, and processes.
• Serve as Secretary to the ViiV Medical Governance Executive Committee (MGEC), proactively identifying and consolidating medical governance topics from RDGM functional leaders, regions, and LOCs.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert and trusted advisor to ViiV's senior medical leadership on all matters related to medical governance.

Minimum Experience:

• PhD or MSc preferred.
• Typically 7–10+ years in Medical Affairs or closely related fields.
• At least 5 years as a nominated Final Medical Signatory under the ABPI Code.
• Demonstrated leadership in ABPI governance, decision making, compliance frameworks, and/or complaint resolution.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience shaping cross‑functional governance or enterprise systems.
• Medical leadership in a global or regional role.
• Experience in launch excellence, scientific platform development, and evidence review.

Other Job-Related Skills:

• Expert level knowledge of ABPI, EFPIA, IFPMA and PhRMA Codes of Practice, and MHRA Blue Guide.
• Strong ability to evaluate scientific evidence, claims substantiation, and risk‑benefit communication.
• High judgment in resolving ambiguous or high‑stakes compliance issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience developing training, capability frameworks, and inspection‑ready systems.
• Ability to manage cross‑functional decision making and governance processes.

Equal Opportunity Statement: ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.