Job description
Site Name: Field Worker - GBR
Posted Date: May 1 2025
ViiV Field Based Medical Advisor (Fixed Term to December 2025)
Job Description
We are currently recruiting one ViiV Medical Advisor professional to be part of the field-based scientific expert team for HIV. As a member of the field medical team, you will build strong scientific partnerships with external experts and provide non-promotional, medical and scientific support to:
* Communicate effectively your deep knowledge around ViiV HIV medicines (treatment and prevention) and strategies. Educate HCPs to ensure understanding of the latest data to support the safe and effective use of our medicines, whilst gathering valuable insights for internal stakeholders to support the better understanding of patient needs and current evidence gaps.
* Provide cross functional matrix support for clinical development and HO medical affairs colleagues to deliver with excellence on the extensive trial portfolio. This will include trial feasibility, site identification and selection along with ongoing support to investigators conducting ViiV clinical trials.
* Identify and support potential research opportunities consistent with medical and business strategies including investigator sponsored studies and real-world evidence (RWE) projects.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Engaging in scientific dialogue with external experts around ViiV’s HIV medicines, to build strong scientific partnerships and deliver peer to peer level medical education enabling them to confidently discuss our medicines with patients and the wider medical community in the treatment and prevention space.
* Provide scientific education training to nurses and other allied HCPs to support the safe and effective use of our medicines both in the treatment and prevention space.
* Acting as an expert speaker at scientific events, regional and local meetings to disseminate information to larger groups of healthcare providers while facilitating clinical dialogue to gain different views and perspectives.
* Support and create medical educational materials at the reginal and local level to address the needs of the UK HCPs for both treatment and prevention.
* Providing scientific education training when required for business partners such as the Medical Representatives by being the local scientific expert in a therapy area.
* Responding to unsolicited requests for Medical Information from healthcare providers in a fair, factual, balanced, and scientifically rigorous manner via the appropriate and preferred channel.
* Acting as the interface between the professional healthcare community and the internal ViiV medical team and its affiliates to bring in value-added insights that inform ViiV Medical, Commercial, and Research & Development activities.
* Fostering a collaborative working relationship with Medical Representatives and Commercial colleagues.
* Partner with matrix colleagues (e.g. sales, marketing, market access, etc.) to ensure strategies and business plans are both patient and business focused, and adding value to the external expert
* Disseminating important safety information to healthcare professionals as and when this emerges.
* Supporting clinical development activities by participating in trial feasibility, site identification and assessment, addressing subject retention and other scientific issues in partnership with the study management team and UK clinical trial manager.
* Identifying and support potential research opportunities consistent with medical and business strategies including investigator sponsored studies (ISSs) and RWE projects.
* Maintaining a level of expertise in the evolving scientific / therapeutic area and in competitor medicines and strategies.
* Attending scientific meetings and congresses to keep abreast of the evolving science in a therapy area and to be able to disseminate key data for both ViiV and other HIV medicines to our HCP partners.
* Fully understand and comply with ViiV standards and policies and with local codes of practice, guidelines and laws to ensure the strictest requirements are met.
Qualifications and Experience :
* We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* Experience working in HIV/Sexual Health as a doctor, pharmacist, clinical nurse specialist or allied healthcare professional (MD, MBBS, MPharm, PharmD, RGN). Expertise in HIV is desired but not essential.
* Effective engagement and communication skills and ability to tailor information to different audiences appropriately. Experience of training peers and clinical facilitation is desirable.
* Experience of speaking to HCPs within different settings, both small hospital dept meetings and larger regional or national meetings, on clinical data and how it may influence clinical practice. Clinical facilitation experience would also be desirable.
* Ability to translate complex science into simple messages and ability to communicate through multiple channels e.g. webinars.
* Effective networking ,project management and collaboration skills to achieve business objectives.
* A sense of curiosity and a passion for continuous learning and development often using one’s own initiative to ensure completely up to date with evolving science in HIV
Posting End Date: 15th May 2025
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Why Us?
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 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.
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