Country Medical Director for Austria

Location – Vienna, Austria

Reports to: VP & Head of Medical Affairs, Central & Southern Europe

Join GSK's Chief Patient Organisation/Medical Affairs team and be part of a global organization that drives innovation, scientific excellence, and patient-centered solutions. At GSK, we are committed to improving lives by ensuring the safe and effective use of our medicines and vaccines, bridging critical scientific insights with impactful healthcare strategies.

As a key member of the Austrian Leadership team, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape clinical practice, engage with healthcare professionals, and deliver impact and meaningful outcomes for patients.

We’re seeking a Country Medical Director for Austria to provide overall medical leadership and act as a strategic partner to the General Manager and the Commercial team. You will own medical accountability and governance across the country, ensuring all scientific and medical engagement aligns with GSK and local standards and places patients’ interests first. You’ll drive delivery of our Innovation, Performance & Trust priorities, support successful product launches and the clear, compliant communication of scientific evidence to HCPs, and ensure medical insight meaningfully informs and shape strategies.

You will build a high‑performance medical culture with single‑point accountability, smart risk‑taking and strong talent development. The role is responsible for operational delivery of medical performance metrics, capability and succession planning, and close cross‑functional collaboration to maximise patient outcomes and impact. We’re looking for an experienced senior medical leader with proven commercial partnership, regional and/or global strategic expertise, governance know how and strong people‑development skills.

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

• To ensure appropriate leadership and input to the development and execution of medical strategies, excellent launches and outstanding external engagement plans that are aligned with the business strategies and successful access of GSK medicines.
• To provide medical leadership and ownership for local evidence generation, supporting ISSs, Real world evidence, evidence dissemination, scientific exchange, input to HTA & payer submissions and building trusted scientific partnerships with external scientific community. This also includes close partnerships with Clinical Operations.
• To ensure appropriate resources and capabilities are available in the country, in collaboration with the GM, to meet and execute essential requirements for Medical Affairs, Pharmacovigilance and governance functions and to enable successful external engagement by Medical.
• To ensure a robust governance framework is in place, and that the highest standards of Medical Governance are being practiced within the country.
• To provide input to appropriate risk management strategies for the country and ensuring appropriate representation /spokesperson for Medical in local crisis management, as well as ensures representation in local MGBs, RMCB and other appropriate Governance bodies.
• To ensure adequate systems and processes for Pharmacovigilance are in place in the country and to comply with local regulations and GSK global Pharmacovigilance requirements. PV tasks will be performed by the NSC/ designee.
• Be accountable on delivery of high-quality materials and activities.

Basic Qualifications & Skills

We are seeking a professional with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

Essential qualifications and experience

• Doctoral degree in a life sciences discipline with relevant clinical experience.
• Proven Medical Affairs leadership at country AND regional/global (“above-country”) levels of at least 4 years.
• People leadership skills, preferably “leading leaders” experience.
• Scientific expertise in our therapeutic areas with strong focus on oncology and specialty care.
• Track record of leading medical strategy, evidence generation or medical governance at affiliate/country level.
• Strong external engagement experience with healthcare professionals and key opinion leaders.
• Excellent presentation, influencing and media skills for both internal and external audiences.
• Fluent written and spoken German and English.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Physician (MD or equivalent qualifications)
• Prior experience as a country or regional medical director in Europe.
• Familiarity with Austrian healthcare systems, payor processes, and clinical guideline development.
• Experience supporting product launches and lifecycle planning.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are passionate about making a difference and have the skills and experience, we are looking for, we encourage you to apply.

Closing Date for Applications: 24th April 2026 (EOD)

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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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