Director Third Party Management Medical Writing

GSK's success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

The Director, Third-Party Management (Medical Writing) is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the delivery of services and projects through strategic partnerships with external vendors, contractors, and service providers, ensuring efficient, high-quality outputs while maintaining rigorous standards of compliance, proactively managing supplier risk, and driving issue resolution in close collaboration with the Medical Writing Leadership Team ; working closely with internal stakeholders, the role provides robust vendor oversight, drives continuous improvement in operational performance, and fosters strong, value-driven partnerships to maximize the impact of third-party engagements and support the organization's strategic objectives.

• Build effective, collaborative relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders (eg MW Global Head, MW TA Heads, Finance and Procurement) to align on priorities, resourcing, finance forecasting, vendor onboarding, and contracting.

• Support allocation of work across vendors aligned to capacity and capability and ensure appropriate utilization of vendors to meet project timelines and portfolio demands.

• Define and monitor KPIs and service level agreements (SLAs) for Medical Writing vendors.

• Monitor cost vs. performance to ensure value delivery.

• Lead and conduct regular performance reviews to identify improvement opportunities.

• Drive harmonization of ways of working across vendors.

• Ensure adherence to GSK Third Party Management frameworks, SOPs, and quality standards.

• Ensure risk mitigation plans related to Thirds Party Vendors are implemented and tracked.

• Bachelors' Degree or equivalent in Business Administration or Finance

• Proven strategic & enterprise thinking with strong business acumen in the Pharma Industry, Biotech or CRO.

• Proven leadership operating in a matrix environment, ability to constructively challenge practices with senior leaders; possess negotiation skills and ability to influence with or without authority at all levels of the organization.

• Experience working independently and the ability to quickly build personal credibility and assimilate business issues/need.

• Strong influencing and negotiations skills in challenging, ambiguous and/or changing environments.

• Ability to build credibility quickly across a diverse range of internal and external teams seniority, and geography.

• Highly effective verbal, written, presentation communications skills.

• Advanced degree

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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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