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Director, Patient Engagement

ViiV Healthcare Durham Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

The Director, Patient Engagement role is responsible for generating, translating, and embedding patient and community insights across the medicine lifecycle. The successful candidate will work in partnership with patients, community organisations, advocacy leaders, healthcare professionals, and internal stakeholders to drive an insight-to-action approach that informs strategy, strengthens patient-centred innovation, and advances ViiV's mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and execute the US Patient Engagement strategy, aligned to ViiV's global patient engagement vision and business objectives.
  • Ensure learnings from the US inform global patient engagement priorities, frameworks, and capability development.
  • Foster a patient-centric culture by connecting internal stakeholders with the experiences and needs of people living with HIV and communities affected by HIV.
  • Shape and coordinate patient and community insight-generating activities across advisory boards, community consultations, research activities, and strategic partnerships.
  • Translate insights into actionable recommendations that inform strategy, evidence generation, communications, access initiatives, and patient-centred innovation.
  • Develop and maintain trusted, strategic relationships with patient organisations, advocacy groups, community leaders, and other external stakeholders across the US HIV ecosystem.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years in patient engagement, patient advocacy, community partnerships, public health, and healthcare.
  • Experience with HIV prevention and treatment landscapes and therapeutic areas.
  • Experience working with patient organisations, advocacy groups, and community stakeholders.
  • Experience translating patient and community insights into recommendations and business actions.
  • Leadership experience within matrix organisations.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits program, including options and plans offered by GSK.

Why Us?

  • ViiV Healthcare is a pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS.
  • We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind, and we combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy, and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care.

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Skills

Required

  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Digital Fluency
  • Enterprise Thinking
  • High Impact Communication
  • Launch Excellence
  • Patient Impact

Nice to have

  • Excellent communication, facilitation and relationship-building skills.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across regional, multi-country or local market environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships that strengthen community trust, mutual accountability and patient – centred outcomes
  • Experience measuring and demonstrating the impact of patient engagement initiatives.
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