Associate Director

Site Name:
Australia - Victoria - Abbotsford

Posted Date:
Mar

Are you energized by networking with key opinion leaders and leveraging your broad scientific expertise to accelerate the development of medicines? If so, this Clinical Pharmacology Manager role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As a Clinical Pharmacology Manager, you will be responsible for providing deep scientific knowledge and expertise in early medicine development, and to work alongside other experts to relate these findings to the safety of medicines in patients.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following

• Develop the scientific strategy, along with other experts, to improve our understanding of xenobiotic chemistry and their biotransformation pathways (structural alerts) and how these link to biological mechanisms of toxicity.
• Collaborate with the Computational & Modelling Science group to integrate findings into qualitative systems biology models.
• Work with Insight from Data and Computational & Modelling Science groups to help create knowledge databases to develop reports using retrospective and competitor information and establish relational rules for toxicity.
• Advance our knowledge of the enzymes and their impact on preclinicalclinical translation (species differences) and prediction of clinical variability in patient populations (polymorphisms, impact of disease).
• Contextualize and extrapolate drug metabolism/biotransformation findings and discuss data with program/project teams, internal advisory groups as well as Senior Leaders & Regulators.
• Represent GSK on external working groups to advance our understanding of drug metabolism / biotransformation mechanisms from preclinical findings to the clinical setting.
• Communicate, interact and influence others and act as mentor, coach, trainer and consultant in understanding biotransformation pathways.

_ Why you?_:

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• PhD in Biochemistry, Biological or chemistry sciences
• Strong experience with in vitro/exvivo technologies and in vitro/exvivo to in vivo extrapolation to investigative safety issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience or working in matrix across departmental lines
• Strong communication skills

_ Why GSK?_:

• Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture._
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and wellbeing, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

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_This is a job description to aide in the job posting, but does not include all job evaluation details._

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.

Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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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