# Senior Medical Lead

**Company**: GSK
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

You will lead the strategic medical leadership of the Innovative Specialty portfolio in Türkiye. You will shape therapeutic area strategy, translate scientific innovation into clinical impact, generate actionable healthcare insights and drive medical excellence across the asset lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

- Own and lead the development, implementation and continuous optimisation of local medical strategies and medical plans for assigned Innovative Specialty assets.

- Lead medical launch readiness planning for innovative assets, ensuring organisational preparedness, scientific excellence and effective external engagement.

- Dedicate approximately 50% of working time to field-based, non-promotional scientific engagement activities across Türkiye.

- Develop and execute pre-launch medical strategies focused on disease awareness, scientific education, treatment landscape understanding and unmet medical needs.

- Identify scientific evidence gaps and support evidence-generation initiatives relevant to the introduction of innovative therapies into clinical practice.

- Provide strategic medical leadership across the asset lifecycle, from pipeline development and pre-launch planning through launch execution and lifecycle management.

- Identify unmet medical needs, evolving treatment paradigms and emerging scientific opportunities to inform therapeutic area priorities.

- Translate clinical evidence, real-world data and healthcare insights into actionable medical strategies and recommendations.

- Drive medical excellence through evidence-based decision-making, clear prioritisation, effective resource allocation and measurable medical objectives.

- Act as a strategic medical partner to cross-functional leadership teams, providing independent scientific perspectives that inform portfolio and therapeutic area decisions.

Basic Qualifications:

- University degree in Medicine.

- Minimum 3 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, preferably within Medical Affairs.

- Demonstrated experience in developing and executing medical strategies and scientific engagement activities.

- Strong scientific knowledge and ability to critically interpret clinical, epidemiological and real-world evidence.

- Proven ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with external experts, healthcare professionals and scientific stakeholders.

- Experience working within cross-functional teams and contributing to strategic discussions from a Medical Affairs perspective.

- Good understanding of the Turkish healthcare system, clinical practice, regulatory environment and reimbursement landscape.

- Fluency in Turkish and proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

- Willingness and ability to spend approximately 50% of working time in the field, including regular travel across Türkiye.

## Skills

### Required
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Digital Fluency
- Enterprise Thinking
- High Impact Communication
- Launch Excellence
- Patient Impact
- Medicine
- Turkish

### Nice to have
- Previous Medical Affairs experience in hepatology, infectious diseases or gastroenterology
- Demonstrated experience in strategic medical planning, therapeutic area leadership and portfolio management

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