Hepatology Thought Leader Liaison - Southwest Region

Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) - Hepatology

The territory for this region includes Southern California, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) builds and manages strategic relationships with a select group of U.S. external experts within assigned therapeutic areas across specialty groups to generate timely, actionable insights that inform brand strategy. The TLL plans and coordinates insight generation, through ongoing interactions with external experts, congresses and executive engagements, working closely with commercial, medical, and regulatory partners while maintaining executive presence and strict adherence to compliance requirements. Hepatology TLLs will play a critical role in the launch of hepatology drugs, developing expertise in quantitative HBsAg testing to identify target patients and accelerate adoption of a functional cure paradigm in Hepatitis B across their geographies. Seven geographies will cover the United States, each aligned with key regions across the country.

Key Responsibilities

External Expert Engagement & Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with assigned External Experts through meaningful, value-driven interactions.
• Plan and execute compliant External Expert engagements aligned to brand priorities and External Expert needs outside of advisory and congress events, planning and maintaining a consistent level of execution as aligned with TLL Director. This includes a mix of live and virtual engagements in your geography.
• Segment and manage a thought leader network to optimize engagement and insight generation.

Insight Generation & Strategic Impact

• Compliantly elicit, document, and synthesize clinical, competitive, and strategic insights from External Experts in combination with existing insights and qualitative and quantitative data available from Insights and Analytics.
• Share insights with marketing senior leadership to inform brand strategy, resource allocation, and tactic development.
• Seek compliant External Expert feedback on initiatives and materials.

Advisory, Peer to Peer & Congress Engagements

• Plan and execute External Expert consulting engagements and advisory boards.
• Coordinate and support External Expert executive interactions with commercial leadership.
• Enable peer-to-peer education through speaker recommendations, development, training/operations support, and relationship management.
• Lead sponsorship initiatives at Tier 1 congresses and serve as onsite host for product theater speakers and EE guests.

Cross-Functional & Operational Excellence

• Partner effectively with medical, legal, compliance, regulatory, and marketing teams.
• Apply strong project management skills to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Manage agency and vendor partners to ensure timely, high-quality execution.
• Understand risk associated with the activities on Strategic Engagement and be adept and agile in their management and mitigation.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in field sales, product marketing, or medical/clinical roles within pharma or biotech.
• Specialty Hepatology/GI experience required in one of the above functions.
• Experience presenting to executive audiences (live and virtual) and influencing strategic decisions or stakeholder alignment.
• Experience leveraging insights to guide strategy development and proactively refine approach in response to evolving data and market dynamics.
• Valid driver's license.
• Willingness to travel 6080%, including nights and weekends.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree.
• Strong account management and cross-functional leadership experience.
• Marketing and/or sales management background.
• Advanced project management and organizational skills.
• Proven adherence to regulatory and compliance standards with proactive risk identification and mitigation.

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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