Associate Director, Clinical Pharmacology

Site Name: USA - North Carolina - Durham, USA - Massachusetts - Waltham, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Dec 20 2024

GSK has an inspiring ambition: by uniting science, technology and talent we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next ten years. We will get ahead of disease together with our R&D approach of focusing on the science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies, such as functional genomics and AI/ML.

We have an exciting opportunity at GSK for a highly motivated and experienced quantitative clinical pharmacologist to join our team supporting oncology therapeutic area as part of the global Clinical Pharmacology Modelling and Simulation (CPMS) department. GSK provides a supportive environment for scientists who are aspiring to learn, to contribute and to make impact on business decisions through innovation, expertise, and influence.

As an Associate Director, CPMS, you will be part of a science driven group delivering clinical pharmacology and modelling & simulation excellence to research and development programs. You'll have the opportunity to work on small molecules, biologics, and antibody drug conjugates in the Oncology therapeutic area. Responsibilities generally commence post-candidate selection with accountability occurring from approximately 6 months prior to FTIH through to life cycle management.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to contribute and lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Planning, conducting and reporting drug-disease modelling, exposure-response analysis, simulation-based trial design and dose selection, and population clinical pharmacology modelling
• Applying innovative methods such as longitudinal exposure-response analysis, model-based meta-analysis and quantitative systems pharmacology to enhance data use and trial efficiency
• Presenting strategy and defending outcome of model-based approaches to internal governance boards and regulatory agencies
• Contributing to clinical program design, trial protocols, analysis plans, study reports and regulatory submissions
• Write or review clinical pharmacology components of regulatory documents and responses such that GSK products are rapidly and efficiently approved with optimum labelling (with regards to the clinical pharmacology, modelling and simulation contents)
• Implement best practices, trends, lessons learned from internal and external sources to further clinical pharmacology modelling and simulation contributions to R&D pipeline
• Ability to interact with line and middle management, staff and external contacts on a functional, strategic and tactical level
• Promoting model-informed drug discovery and development through external collaboration, journal publication and conference presentation

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• A doctorate (PharmD, PhD, MD) in Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics disciplines (e.g., pharmacology, engineering or statistics) and experience in using modelling/simulation to solve practical problems in industry or academia
• 2+ years of utilizing skills in mechanistic PKPD and longitudinal disease modelling; and verifiable proficiency in pharmacometric tools NONMEM, Monolix, R or SAS
• 2+ years of experience in the design, analysis, interpretation and reporting of Clinical Pharmacology studies per industry and regulatory standards.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Strong drive and learning agility to build knowledge on a drug-disease system, symptom progression, standard of care, and trial design
• Knowledge of or ability to quickly learn the mechanism, endpoints, progression and treatments of cancers
• Demonstrated aptitude for productive collaboration in a multi-discipline team, using effective communication and taking personal accountability for timely delivery of results
• Clear evidence of ability to make sound judgement in complex situations and adapt to changing business needs by prioritizing multiple tasks
• Passion for quantitative clinical pharmacology and desire to innovate for better outcome
• Prior experience in Oncology Research and Development is a plus
• Experience working with senior stakeholders in a cross functional environment
• Strong track record of implementation of Model-Informed Drug Discovery and Development (MID3) approaches to accelerate patient access to novel therapies and to expand therapeutic indications of marketed drugs

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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