Site Name: USA - California - Los Angeles, USA - Arizona - Phoenix, USA - Nevada - Las Vegas, USA - Washington - Seattle
Posted Date: Apr 24 2023

The Patient Engagement Liaison (PEL) is a Grade 6 field based, community-facing colleague who serves as an educational resource for local advocacy groups and their patient members. The primary function of the PEL is to liaise with community-based advocacy and patient groups and their constituents on unbranded programs, resources, support and services available from GSK and/or related to the GSK Specialty portfolio.

Colleagues in this role will play an integral part in helping GSK establish leadership within the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Severe Eosinophilic Asthma (SEA) and Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA) patient communities. All of this will be executed in close collaboration with Advocacy Alliance and Development, Medical, legal and compliance colleagues to ensure that these new capabilities and approaches are implemented in a thoughtful manner that meets GSK's high standards of conduct.

The key responsibilities of the position are:

• Help ensure patients receive important information about their disease and be in a position to have meaningful discussions with their healthcare providers
• Coordination and implementation of SLE, SEA and EGPA patient programs at the local level
• Deliver helpful educational information pertaining to the Specialty BU disease states to patients and advocacy groups at various GSK-sponsored events (e.g. Booth Exhibits and PAG patient meetings)
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with local and regional advocacy groups to advance the needs of SLE, SEA and EGPA patients
• Fund and staff and unbranded exhibit booths at a PAG or External Organization events
• Manage the receipt of PAG external funding requests and facilitate the escalation of such requests to Patient Engagement Led to ensure proper review and approval.
• Provide local insights to inform SLE, SEA and EGPA Brand Team development of educational materials for patient engagement and patient support services that address unmet needs within the patient community.
• Ensure all aspects of patient engagement is implemented in a thoughtful manner that meets GSK's high standards of conduct.

Territory: West

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Nursing or related health care field of study
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in pharmaceutical and/or health care industry
• Patient Care experience
• Experience working externally with health care providers and/or patient advocacy groups
• Must be located within 50 miles of a major airport due to size of geography and amount of travel required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong disease state knowledge of SLE, SEA, and/or EGPA
• Strong understanding of SLE, SEA and EGPA marketplace and external environment
• Strong verbal and written communication/ presentation skills
• Specialty biology experience
• Ability to work effectively across a matrix environment and influence without formal authority
• Passion for addressing unmet needs within the patient community
• In depth understanding of the HQ-approved educational presentations
• Ability to travel extensively in multi-state territory (>50%)
• Overnight and weekend travel will be required for role.
• Varied experience in a range of roles, job functions, and/or business units.

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

#LI-GSK

GSK offers a competitive compensation package inclusive of the following: Competitive base salary, annual bonus based on company performance, access to healthcare and wellbeing programs, retirement savings program, paid time off, and employee recognition programs which reward exceptional achievements. The salary range for this role is: $127,092 to $171,948

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our 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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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