Business Introduction
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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The Associate Director, Epidemiology (HPV) will provide scientific leadership in disease epidemiology, leveraging real-world data (RWD), cutting-edge methods, and technology across medicine and vaccine development. The role aims to generate credible and actionable real-world evidence (RWE) to improve patient outcomes, aligning epidemiology programs with broader asset/disease strategies to deliver new medicines and vaccines efficiently and effectively.

Join us to grow your skills, influence decisions that affect patients, and contribute to GSK’s mission of uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Responsibilities:
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Accountable for the epidemiology program for at least one asset or disease area, including proposing and negotiating program content and budget with matrix leaders. This includes developing a Global Epidemiology Plan and may include leading a cross-functional team.

• Provide expert epidemiological insights to asset matrix teams (e.g., Clinical Development Team, Safety Review Team, Medicine/Vaccine Development Team).

• Lead complex epidemiological studies and negotiate new partnerships with oversight from senior staff.

• Identify new vendors, tools, and data sources to deliver innovative epidemiology solutions for assets or disease areas.

• Contribute to strategic initiatives on the role of epidemiology at the departmental or R&D level.

• Represent GSK in scientific interactions with internal governance bodies, external regulators, and at international conferences.

• Plan and coordinate scientific dissemination of epidemiology data, including authoring regulatory documents, peer-reviewed publications, and presentations at national and international meetings.

• Partner with external groups conducting epidemiological studies globally and manage external collaborations.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals.

• Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, or a related quantitative discipline.

• Epidemiological experience and ability to influence key internal (matrix leaders) and external (e.g. regulators) stakeholders.

• Experience applying epidemiologic methods in pharmacoepidemiology, clinical development, or outcomes research.

• Experience designing and delivering observational and database studies, including protocol development and analysis oversight.

• Experience working in a matrix environment and influencing multidisciplinary teams.

• Experience providing the delivery of increasingly complex epidemiological studies, including regulatory requirements.

• Experience applying epidemiology methods and study design knowledge in execution of their work (e.g. post-approval studies).

• Experience working with external regulatory requirements and scientific landscape around RWE.

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

• Doctoral degree (PhD, ScD, DrPH) in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, or a related quantitative discipline.

• 1+ years in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in an academic or government setting.

• Experience in the epidemiology of HPV infection.

• Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry supporting regulatory submissions or post-authorization commitments.

• Track record using multiple real-world data sources (claims, electronic health records, registries) and familiarity with data linkage.

• Experience with advanced quantitative methods such as propensity scores, target trial emulation, or causal inference approaches.

• Familiarity with safety signal evaluation and background rate estimation for risk assessment.

• Active participation in scientific networks or professional societies and a record of peer-reviewed publications.

• Prior experience presenting to regulators, advisory boards or scientific conferences.

• Highly proficient written, verbal, and listening skills.

Working Model
This role is expected to be hybrid, with a mix of remote and 3 days a week on-site work.
 

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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