Executive Medical Director / SERM Head - Oncology

Site Name : UK – London – New Oxford Street, Belgium-Wavre, Mississauga Milverton Drive, Poznan Grunwaldzka

Posted Date : Jun 16 2025

Executive Medical Director / SERM Head - Oncology

We are seeking a visionary and strategic leader to join our Global Safety Evaluation and Risk Management team as SERM Head, Executive Director. This is a critical leadership role responsible for shaping and driving the clinical safety and pharmacovigilance strategy across our Oncology portfolio, ensuring the highest standards of patient safety and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a global team of senior medical and scientific safety professionals.
• Define and drive the strategic direction and vision of clinical safety and pharmacovigilance activities in alignment with Global Safety business strategy.
• Oversee benefit-risk management activities across the assigned portfolio throughout the lifecycle, to ensure Patient Safety globally. Anticipate, detect and address product safety issues and ensure that risk-reduction strategies are implemented appropriately.
• Ensure scientific rigor in safety data evaluation, interpretation, and communication. Make recommendations for the further characterization, management, and communication of safety risks
• Represent Global Safety with confidence, impact, integrity and professionalism both internally, in cross-functional governance, and with key external stakeholders including regulators and industry forums.
• Drive continuous improvement and compliance with applicable processes and standards and maintain readiness in internal audit or regulatory inspection.
• Lead or oversee SERM contribution to due diligence activities.
• Lead enterprise-wide activities such as safety advisory panels, interfaces with and assumes ad hoc membership of a Senior Governance Committee.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Experience

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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