Cluster Compliance Lead

GSK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ViiV Healthcare in London seeks a Compliance Cluster Lead to drive risk insights and governance across Local Operating Companies. You will partner with General Managers to prioritise risks, provide proactive compliance guidance, and strengthen accountability to support growth and responsible business practices.

You will coordinate cross-functional collaboration with Commercial, Medical, Finance and Legal, delivering data-driven risk insights and leading targeted deep-dives to address

Qualifications

• Proven risk management expertise with senior stakeholder influence.
• Ability to translate data into actionable risk insights.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Advise LOC leadership as a strategic partner on risk and compliance.
• Coordinate quarterly LOC risk governance and reporting to senior leaders.
• Lead risk deep-dives and support annual confirmation processes.
• Engage stakeholders across Commercial, Medical, Finance and Legal.
• Promote a data-driven risk culture with clear accountability.

Skills

Business Acumen

Influencing Without Authority

Insight Generation

Learning Agility

Problem Solving

Risk Management

Job description

Business Introduction

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Purpose

The role enables focused, data-driven risk management action while strengthening business ownership of risk across a Cluster of Local Operating Companies (Cluster LOCs). It combines analytical expertise, business and risk management acumen, and leadership to influence decisions and drive actions that enables ViiV Healthcare to operate as a responsible business.

As a Compliance Cluster Lead, you will support the delivery of commercialisation objectives by providing focused, relevant, and actionable risk insights. You will do this by partnering with General Managers in the Cluster to prioritise and address key risks and opportunities. This role reinforces accountability, supports effective leadership, and helps embed a strong culture that delivers growth and ensures ViiV Healthcare operates as a responsible business.

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Risk Advice

Partner with LOC GMs and LOC Leadership Teams

to ensure priority risks are effectively assessed and managed in line with the Internal Control Framework:

• Advise Commercial leadership by acting as a strategic business partner on new, complex, or high-risk activities, providing proactive compliance advice, coaching, and risk-mitigation guidance.
• Turn data into action by working with other Compliance teams (including GSK Risk Insight Leaders and GSK Compliance Hub Managers) to deliver coordinated, high-quality insight-driven risk advice to LOC leaders that help them prioritise actions and make informed decisions.
• Commercial Alliances - Provide compliance leadership and oversight for Commercial Alliance partnerships in the cluster, acting as the escalation point and partnering with the business to ensure effective governance, risk management, and compliance throughout the alliance lifecycle.

Risk Governance

• RMCB - Coordinate and support quarterly LOCs Risk Management and Compliance Board meetings, providing guidance and oversight to senior leaders to enhance the quality and consistency of local risk governance.
• Report on effectiveness: Provide regular updates to LOC leadership and Regional Compliance leadership on the impact and effectiveness of insights-driven risk management.
• Enable Confirmation- Provide direction, challenge, and expert insight input during the Annual Confirmation process to ensure robust risk evaluation and clear accountability
• Independent Monitoring & Assurance- Participate as necessary in planning and pre-close engagements for Independent Business Monitoring (IBM) and Third Party Monitoring (TPM) reviews and/or audits, ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) and the embedding of insights and learnings.
• ABAC & Investigations – Act as the escalation point for unresolved ABAC due-diligence queries and compliance investigations, ensuring timely resolution and risk-appropriate decisions.
• Risk deep-dives - When required, lead targeted risk deep-dives on priority topics (e.g. launch readiness reviews) based on prevailing risk trends identified at a global or regional level.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Support LOCs and stakeholders: Help markets and RMCB members understand risk insights, respond to queries, and reinforce market accountability for reporting and follow-up actions.
• Drive cross‑functional collaboration: Partner with Commercial, Medical, Finance, and Legal to promote integration and enable effective risk management.

Leadership Expectations

• Reinforce business ownership of risk: Embed clear accountability with the business for evaluating and managing risk.
• Promote a data-driven risk culture: Encourage insight-led, focused risk management, supported by high-quality, relevant data.

Job-Related Experience & Capabilities

The role requires proven risk management expertise, combined with a strong track record of influencing senior management and delivering integrated compliance programmes.

Competencies

• Understands, anticipates and integrates risk management in key commercialisation activities to deliver responsible and sustainable growth.
• Influences effectively both horizontally and vertically across multiple stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Leverages digital/data analytics to drive competitive advantage.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, influence and negotiation skills with a wide range of audiences.

Knowledge

• Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of ViiV Healthcare’s Internal Control Framework.
• Understands key market dynamics of LOCs in the Cluster, including relevant regulations, market access challenges and opportunities.

Other Qualities

• Presence and leadership – Inspire with authenticity.
• Focuses on what matters most, drives clarity of accountabilities to ensure clear ownership of risk and decision-making.
• Agility to confidently work in dynamic environments, at pace.
• Keeps patient centricity and business integrity at the heart of everything he/she does.
• Committed to The Code, our purpose and ambition for health impact.

Application closing date

Sunday, November 15, 2026 - EOD CET

Skills

Business Acumen, Influencing Without Authority, Insight Generation, Learning Agility, Problem Solving, Risk Management

Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 40 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 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.

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 (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, ViiV may be required to capture and report expenses ViiV incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure ViiV’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/