ViiV Healthcare (GSK) Global Patient Engagement Director

R&D Patient Engagement Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and execute R&D’s Patient Engagement strategy, aligned to ViiV’s global patient engagement vision and business objectives, ensuring that patient and community priorities inform the discovery and development of medicines and deliver outcomes that matter to patients.
• Ensure patient and community insights inform R&D priorities and decision-making, while R&D needs and learning 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.

Insight Generation & Translation

• Co-design, plan and coordinate patient and community insight-generating activities with patient and community partners, LOC engagement leads, R&D and cross-functional partners.
• Ensure these activities have shared objectives and inform the R&D patient engagement strategy, R&D decision-making, clinical development programmes, and study design and execution.
• Translate insights into actionable recommendations that inform strategy, evidence generation, communications, access initiatives and patient-centred innovation.
• Identify emerging trends, unmet needs and barriers affecting patient outcomes across diverse healthcare systems and ensure these inform R&D planning and decision-making, trial design, and drug development.

Community & External Partnerships

• Develop and maintain trusted, strategic relationships with patient organisations, advocacy groups, community leaders and other external stakeholders across the HIV ecosystem to inform patient engagement strategy, strengthen community trust and ensure research priorities reflect patient and community needs.
• Advance meaningful engagement and co-creation with communities to strengthen understanding, trust, relevance and impact.
• Represent ViiV at external meetings, conferences and community forums, championing patient-centred approaches and partnership.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Support incorporation of patient insights into clinical development, evidence generation, scientific communication, access strategies and patient support initiatives.
• Provide strategic leadership and expert advice to cross-functional teams, ensuring patient and community perspectives are effectively integrated into business decisions, organisational priorities and initiatives across the medicine lifecycle.

Patient Engagement Excellence & Impact

• Co-define with patient and community partners, establish and monitor R&D patient engagement processes, objectives, measures and outcomes.
• Capture and share insights, outcomes and best practices across Global and LOC-specific initiatives to support learning, consistency and continuous improvement across ViiV’s R&D patient engagement model.
• Ensure all activities are conducted in compliance with legal, regulatory and corporate requirements.