ViiV Healthcare (GSK) Director, Clinical Pharmacology

About the role

ViiV Healthcare is seeking a Clinical Pharmacology Director to shape clinical pharmacology strategy across drug development programs. The role involves providing scientific leadership and strategic direction for multiple clinical development programs, leading and mentoring clinical pharmacology project leads, collaborating with cross-functional partners, serving as a subject matter expert, and contributing to departmental and external initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide scientific leadership and strategic direction for multiple clinical development programs.
• Lead and mentor clinical pharmacology project leads, ensuring priorities are clear and aligned with program and organizational goals.
• Guide the development of scientific and clinical strategies across a 1- to 3-year planning horizon.
• Serve as a recognized subject matter expert in clinical pharmacology, modeling, and simulation.
• Contribute to departmental, business development, and external scientific initiatives, including presentations, publications, and due diligence activities.

Requirements

• PharmD or PhD with 5+ years of clinical development experience, or an MS with 8+ years of clinical development experience.
• Experience supporting clinical projects from early through late-stage development, with a strong foundation in PK, PK/PD, pharmacometrics, and model-informed drug development.
• Experience authoring or contributing to regulatory and scientific documents, with the ability to represent the function in discussions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in translational science, experimental medicine, and early drug development within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications:
  • To be considered for this role, you should bring the following qualifications and experience:
  • Basic Qualifications: PharmD or PhD with 5+ years of clinical development experience, or an MS with 8+ years of clinical development experience.
  • Experience supporting clinical projects from early through late-stage development, with a strong foundation in PK, PK/PD, pharmacometrics, and model-informed drug development.
  • Experience authoring or contributing to regulatory and scientific documents, with the ability to represent the function in discussions with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience in translational science, experimental medicine, and early drug development within a collaborative environment.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience in infectious disease drug development or research, experience working across teams, including matrix and functional leadership, and partnering with internal and external experts, demonstrated ability to design studies, interpret complex quantitative data, and translate findings into development and regulatory recommendations, excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including experience communicating scientific concepts to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, ability to analyze and interpret scientific data relevant to clinical pharmacology, modeling, and simulation, programming and quantitative analysis skills (for example, R, NONMEM, WinNonlin, SAS, or related tools) with strong data visualization capabilities are highly valued.

Benefits

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program ViiV offers US employees. All ViiV employees receive the same benefits options and plans as GSK employee.