Medical Affairs Strategy & Performance Lead

GSK

Melbourne

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

39 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working
Inclusive culture
Global opportunities
Feel Good Days
Volunteer day
Additional leave
Discounted health insurance

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Medical Affairs Strategy & Performance Lead to drive strategy, performance, and transformational initiatives across Medical Affairs in Australia. This highly visible role partners with senior leaders to enhance external engagement, improve business performance and deliver measurable value.

You will lead planning, define objectives, set portfolio direction, coordinate budget and resources, and oversee capability-building programs in a fast, innovative environment.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading strategic planning and performance initiatives.
  • Strong analytical ability to translate data into actionable insights.
  • Experience driving change, transformation or capability-building programs.
  • Excellent communication skills for senior leader briefings.
  • Postgraduate qualifications in science, healthcare, business or related field valued.

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and execution framework for Medical Affairs strategy in Australia.
  • Develop metrics, reporting frameworks and insights to drive performance.
  • Shape omnichannel and digital engagement with external experts.
  • Oversee medical business planning including budgets and resource allocation.
  • Drive transformational initiatives across Medical Affairs.
  • Build Medical capability in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Skills

Cross-Functional Leadership
Digital Fluency
Enterprise Thinking
High Impact Communication
Patient Impact
Project Management

Education

Degree qualification

Job description

Medical Affairs Strategy & Performance Lead

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. 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.

About the role

We are seeking a Medical Affairs Strategy & Performance Lead to drive strategy, performance, operational excellence and transformational initiatives across Medical Affairs in Australia.

This is a highly visible leadership role within the Medical Leadership Team, partnering with senior leaders across the business to enhance external engagement, improve business performance and deliver measurable value.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, data analytics, omnichannel engagement and organisational effectiveness, making it an exceptional opportunity for someone who enjoys influencing change, solving complex business challenges and improving the way organisations work.

Your role will be varied and will include:

Leading the development and execution framework for the Medical Affairs strategic and tactical plan in partnership with the Australian Medical Directorate Leadership Team.

  • Driving Medical performance through the development of key metrics, performance frameworks, reporting and actionable business insights.
  • Shaping and supporting omnichannel and digital engagement strategies to improve how Medical Affairs engages with external experts and stakeholders.
  • Leading Medical business planning activities, including objective setting, portfolio planning, departmental reviews, resource planning and budget coordination.
  • Leading transformational initiatives that improve capability, performance and operational effectiveness across Medical Affairs.
  • Building Medical capability in a fast innovative environment, requiring prioritization, focus and excellence in execution.
About you

We are looking for a strategic professional, who is highly collaborative with a performance and mindset of capability building. They can influence without authority, connect people and ideas, and turn strategy into measurable outcomes.

You may come from Medical Affairs, Commercial Excellence, Business Excellence, Strategy & Operations, Digital Transformation or a similar function where you have successfully driven business performance and organisational change.

An understanding of the Medical Function will be an advantage.

You will bring:

Experience leading strategic planning, business performance or operational excellence initiatives.

  • Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate complex data into meaningful business insights and recommendations.
  • Experience driving change, transformation or capability-building programs.
  • Proven project management experience, including delivering initiatives across multiple stakeholders and functions.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts and present recommendations to senior leaders.
  • A degree qualification, with postgraduate qualifications in science, healthcare, business, project management or a related field highly regarded.

At GSK, we challenge ourselves to get Ahead Together – to make a positive impact on global health, enable growth and create an environment where people can thrive.

By joining GSK, you will enjoy:

  • A flexible and life-friendly working approach, allowing you to do your best work.
  • Being part of an inclusive organisation that reflects the communities we work within.
  • Development and progression at a global scale, with international opportunities.
  • 5 Feel Good Days and 1 volunteer day, on top of your annual leave.
  • The option to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave per year.
  • Access to discounted health insurance.
  • The opportunity to work within a highly collaborative Medical Leadership Team that values development, innovation and cross-functional partnership.

#LI-GSK

Skills

Cross-Functional Leadership, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, High Impact Communication, Patient Impact, Project Management

About GSK

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. 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.

About the role

We are seeking a Medical Affairs Strategy & Performance Lead to drive strategy, performance, operational excellence and transformational initiatives across Medical Affairs in Australia.

This is a highly visible leadership role within the Medical Leadership Team, partnering with senior leaders across the business to enhance external engagement, improve business performance and deliver measurable value.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, data analytics, omnichannel engagement and organisational effectiveness, making it an exceptional opportunity for someone who enjoys influencing change, solving complex business challenges and improving the way organisations work.

Your role will be varied and will include:

  • Leading the development and execution framework for the Medical Affairs strategic and tactical plan in partnership with the Australian Medical Directorate Leadership Team.

  • Driving Medical performance through the development of key metrics, performance frameworks, reporting and actionable business insights.
  • Shaping and supporting omnichannel and digital engagement strategies to improve how Medical Affairs engages with external experts and stakeholders.
  • Leading Medical business planning activities, including objective setting, portfolio planning, departmental reviews, resource planning and budget coordination.
  • Leading transformational initiatives that improve capability, performance and operational effectiveness across Medical Affairs.
  • Building Medical capability in a fast innovative environment, requiring prioritization, focus and excellence in execution.
About you

We are looking for a strategic professional, who is highly collaborative with a performance and mindset of capability building. They can influence without authority, connect people and ideas, and turn strategy into measurable outcomes.

You may come from Medical Affairs, Commercial Excellence, Business Excellence, Strategy & Operations, Digital Transformation or a similar function where you have successfully driven business performance and organisational change.

An understanding of the Medical Function will be an advantage.

You will bring:

  • Experience leading strategic planning, business performance or operational excellence initiatives.

  • Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate complex data into meaningful business insights and recommendations.
  • Experience driving change, transformation or capability-building programs.
  • Proven project management experience, including delivering initiatives across multiple stakeholders and functions.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts and present recommendations to senior leaders.
  • A degree qualification, with postgraduate qualifications in science, healthcare, business, project management or a related field highly regarded.
Why join us?

At GSK, we challenge ourselves to get Ahead Together – to make a positive impact on global health, enable growth and create an environment where people can thrive.

By joining GSK, you will enjoy:

  • A flexible and life-friendly working approach, allowing you to do your best work.
  • Being part of an inclusive organisation that reflects the communities we work within.
  • Development and progression at a global scale, with international opportunities.
  • 5 Feel Good Days and 1 volunteer day, on top of your annual leave.
  • The option to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave per year.
  • Access to discounted health insurance.
  • The opportunity to work within a highly collaborative Medical Leadership Team that values development, innovation and cross-functional partnership.

#LI-GSK

Skills

Cross-Functional Leadership, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, High Impact Communication, Patient Impact, Project Management

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

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and providing equal opportunities for all applicants. We embrace an agile working culture across our roles, so if flexibility is important to you please discuss opportunities with our hiring team. If you need any adjustments to the recruitment process to help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities, contact ***************@gsk.com. Please note this email is for adjustment requests only; for other enquiries please use our standard contact channels.

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