Overview
We are seeking experienced Project Leaders to join the team on a permanent, full-time basis. Project Leaders within the Discovery Project Leadership Team are dedicated to the end-to-end leadership of projects spanning the entire drug discovery process, from target validation through to the selection of leads for optimization. The Discovery Project Leader (PL) is the single point of accountability to strategically lead the discovery project from target validation. This is a decision-making position with high visibility and direct interaction with senior leaders. You will lead a multidisciplinary team which will define, implement, and oversee the discovery strategy for an asset. Collaboration and influence are critical to this position as you will be working with various stakeholders across R&D, obtaining and managing resources, and delivering evidence to support candidate discovery and go/no-go decisions. The PL is accountable for leading and driving teams to perform to their best. You will use your drug discovery and development experience to develop the medicine profile drawing from your scientific, development, and business knowledge or experience.
Responsibilities
* Project Leadership - Develop a medicine vision and value proposition for the program.
* Partner with subject matter experts to develop a plan to deliver on the medicine vision.
* Lead the team to identify core risks to the delivery of the molecule and path to the medicine itself and put into place plans to mitigate these risks.
* Understand next steps for the project and proactively engage appropriate subject-matter experts to plan and execute.
* Responsible for establishing the decision / inflection points that enable data driven project decision-making.
* Define and execute the target validation, lead identification and lead optimization strategies for your projects.
* Able to reconcile data; at times with conflicting data, to make informed recommendations.
* Matrix Leadership - Build and nurture high performing project teams.
* Lead and inspire, be curious and strategic, and clearly communicate to the team and senior leaders.
* Drive urgency across your teams to deliver timely data-driven project recommendations.
* Identify and proactively address diminishers of team performance.
* Portfolio Context - Understand the strategic positioning of the program to the internal portfolio and competitor landscape.
* Communicate the project value proposition relative to the GSK portfolio and competitive landscape.
* Recommend when GSK should continue to invest in the medicine vision, when to accelerate, and when to terminate projects in the portfolio.
* Solicit engagement from the internal and external scientific community, engage in robust dialogue that generates insight and advances scientific understanding of your projects.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
* PhD, MD, MSc, or BSc in a scientific discipline relevant to drug discovery.
* Significant years of drug discovery experience.
* Extensive previous experience of project leadership evidenced by delivering clinical candidates or justified terminations.
* A demonstrable track record of developing and delivering successful outcomes through a diverse team.
* A demonstrable ability to influence without authority in a highly matrixed environment.
Preferred Qualifications
* Drug discovery expertise in oncology, neuroscience, renal, hepatic, respiratory, or cellular & molecular immunology.
* Strategic thinking, leadership across functions in a matrix environment.
* Familiarity with modality selection and screening strategies for discovery projects.
* Ability to integrate and lead a multi-discipline team including biology, chemistry, safety assessment, computational sciences, clinical and translational sciences.
* Ability to align resources (people and financial) with the vision; identify and fill resource gaps where possible.
* Experience leading multiple projects concurrently and delivering candidates for clinical progression.
Why GSK?
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases. We are committed to an agile working culture and to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. GSK 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, military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
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Seniority level
* Director
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Business Development and Sales
Industries
* Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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