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Director, Scientific Delivery and Customer Interface, PCD Scinovo : GlaxoSmithKline
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| Job Number |
54342 |
| Employee Type |
Full Time |
| Company Name |
GlaxoSmithKline |
| Location |
King of Prussia
Pennsylvania
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| Salary (year) |
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| Experience |
2 to 5 Years |
| Start Date |
6/24/2009 |
| Industry |
Pharmaceutical |
| Job Type |
Science |
| Relocation |
Not Required |
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| Description |
Basic Qualification
• Biology based first (undergraduate) degree
• Significant experience in drug discovery and development, particularly non-clinical safety or drug metabolism activities, regulatory agency requirements, commercial requirements, and budget management.
• Experience in identifying and evaluating potential external partnerships and/or working with external suppliers
• Experience of working to European and FDA regulatory expectations and GxP procedures
Details
This is an exciting opportunity for highly motivated drug development experts to join an evolving global team that will generate unique and effective approaches for preclinical development. This team will strengthen external partner companies with scientific advice, deliver integrated due diligence feedback to inform internal business development and financial decisions, and help grow a global network of suppliers to meet GSK’s increasingly complex preclinical development requirements.
Preclinical development (PCD) is developing Scinovo as part of the R&D strategy to deliver a major positive scientific impact on external activities undertaken on behalf of business partners within GSK R&D.
Scinovo will be the single point of contact for all PCD activities external to GSK, and will coordinate all PCD interactions with external partners/collaborators/suppliers in order to help progress GSKs projects.
This group will leverage the extensive drug development experience that exists in PCD to assure the solutions our partners need are delivered, so GSK can be further considered the partner of choice. The group will provide access to external preclinical work and/or expert scientific consultative services including due diligence for Business Development, the CEEDD or CEDD’s as required. Continued evolution of PCDs interface with the global contract supplier market in all aspects of non-clinical development science will also be a key responsibility for this new group.
Scinovo will be responsible for assuring quality and the placing of regulated preclinical work at various global contract suppliers, who will conduct the work on behalf of GSK for internal projects (via CEDDs, MDC’s and Business Units) or for the growing number of partner drug discovery companies via the CEEDD or CEDD/CEEDD collaborations. The new group will determine if these services could be provided by GSK or brokered to another supplier, with the emphasis on assuring the best (time/cost/quality) support is available to the specific portfolio or partner.
If you have a good scientific and drug development background, the ability to integrate data and express coherent positions and opinions and keen business acumen you could be a part of this innovative team.
Position located at Upper Merion - candidates must be based at or able to relocate to site. Employees moving into these roles will transfer at their current grade.
PURPOSE/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Responsible for delivery of cost effective solutions for preclinical work activities for a focused customer(s) e.g. CEDD/DPU/Business Unit, CEEDD partners.
• Provide creative cost effective sourcing strategies/ options across the supply base (internal and external) for use of available resources to meet customer requirements and deliverables
• Working with the PCD Scinovo Operations Group, provide customer focus project management in support of externalized deliverables, i.e. creation, control, interrogation, management, and communication of all aspects of the sourcing plan (cash flow, schedule/work status, budget tracking, resources etc.)
• Build robust business cases/ option analysis and recommendation for a dedicated customer(s) in terms of time, cost and quality to facilitate decision-making by the project team/customer(s)
• Create and maintain effective partnerships with key customer(s) and suppliers assuring robust account individualised and customised account management
• Be open and transparent with information; identifying issues early, timely communications with key stakeholders, providing mitigation strategies/alternative assessment
• Be a strong, credible and influential representative of the PCD Scinovo group with a wide range of external stakeholders and customers. Be a role model in customer interactions willingly taking personal responsibility for specified customers or customer interactions
• Coordinate with CRO management, internal scientific lines and operations staff to ensure qualified supplier and supporting systems for robust option(s) generation and bid processes with suppliers and/or PCD lines
• Working with the PCD Scinovo CRO Management team, ensure alignment in global planning, CRO initiatives, CRO management work approaches and guiding principles, in conjunction with the internal scientific lines ways of working.
• Provide input to CEDD/DPU/Business Unit/CEEDD portfolio reviews as required
• Working with CEDD/DPU/Business Unit/CEEDDs ensure that external business plans, based on overall CEDD therapeutic strategy and existing opportunities, are created and updated
• To keep customer(s) aware of changes in the external marketplace; develop excellent market intelligence
• Proactive identification of new opportunities, particularly with external companies, where PCDs capabilities could be leveraged to the benefit of GSK. This could include providing access to available GSK tools for procurement, specific science/technology or favoured rates based on volume discounts.
• Use science and process expertise to build GSK’s influence with external customers.
• Share best practice account management and develop new competencies that are key to emerging business models in a changing environment or new customer requirements
• Develop and maintain own personal network in PCD/ GSK to ensure excellence in customer care and delivery focus so outputs are in line with business needs.
• Resource to Head of PCD Scinovo
Application Deadline for position: July 17th, 2009 |
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| Requirements |
Preferred Qualification
• Advanced degree in science or business strongly preferred
• A good understanding of all the relevant science conducted within pre-clinical development, coupled with a thorough knowledge of the drug development process
• Working knowledge of CRO management and supplier management
• Understanding of, or experience of working with, a broad range of functions including, commercial , manufacturing, finance, legal, business development and clinical.
• Ability to develop and assess business cases and frame recommendations such that tradeoffs are clearly understood
• Experience managing complex matrix relationships both within an organisation and between organisations.
• Experience managing multiple projects and priorities, dealing with information at a variety of levels on a large number of projects and experience balancing scientific interests with drug development and commercial needs. Demonstrated ability to integrate multiple related business and scientific aspects of customer requirements is an important skill required for this role.
• Broad based pharmaceutical research and development experience sufficient to develop credibility with a CEO of an external biotechnology organisation
• Observed strong oral presentation and written communications skills
• Track record of excellent interpersonal, influencing and communications skills at all levels of the organisation. High credibility with senior management across Drug Discovery and PreClinical Development within an R&D organisation is crucial
• Ability to identify key drug development issues, formulate and challenge recommendations for issue resolution, and take a broad and objective business perspective.
• Entrepreneurial track record of courage in decision-making and willingness to be held accountable
• Demonstrated capacity to work and deliver to tight timelines for multiple customers
• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Ability to understand and mitigate risk (along the dimensions of cost, quality and time), and issue identification and resolution
• Ability to think strategically as well as operationally, work under pressure while exhibiting excellence in high performance behaviours
• Experience with business tools and project management software applications |
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