Position: Medical Ethics Lead

Location: Pancras Square, London

Competitive Salary & Excellent Company Benefits

Applications Closing Date: 13th August 2026

Introduction to Role:

Are you ready to set the ethical bar that enables bold, compliant innovation across UK brand teams? Do you want your ABPI Code expertise to shape how science reaches patients by guiding strategy from first concept through to certification and launch?

As Medical Ethics Lead, you will steer the company’s ethical decision-making at pace, embedding pragmatic, proactive Code guidance directly into cross-functional brand planning. You will lead a high-performing team of Nominated Signatories, modernise the end-to-end review process, and harness technology and capability-building to lift quality while accelerating throughput. Your leadership will ensure consistent, intelligent compliance that enables advances in clinical practice and protects our license to operate.

Working closely with medical, marketing, market access, and compliance partners, you will coordinate our defence of PMCPA complaints, strengthen enterprise-wide alignment, and champion standards that hold up under audit. This role is central to how we translate science into real-world impact for patients and the NHS; responsible, rigorous, and forward-looking.

Accountabilities:

• Strategic Compliance Leadership: Set the direction for Medical Ethics across the UK portfolio, embedding Nominated Signatories within brand teams to provide early, constructive input and consistent decision-making from ideation to certification.
• Integrated Brand Support: Join cross-functional planning to enable compliant advances in clinical practice, advising on innovative approaches while adhering to the ABPI Code for both promotional and non-promotional activities.
• MLR Process Optimisation: Drive measurable efficiency in the review process by improving asset quality, redesigning ways of working, and implementing technology that reduces cycle times and rework.
• Demand and Budget Management: Oversee asset prioritisation and manage capacity across internal and third-party reviewers; own the third-party review budget and deliver sustained reductions in external spend through capability build and process redesign.
• PMCPA Defence and Intercompany Dialogue: Lead coordinated responses to complaints and intercompany issues; direct evidence gathering, align defence strategy with senior leaders, and ensure undertakings are rigorously delivered.
• Governance and Grants: Chair and coordinate Ethics Xceed forums, document and communicate decisions, and oversee UK grant requests with clear, auditable processes.
• External Collaboration Guidance: Provide practical direction for collaborations with the NHS and other organisations, enabling compliant partnerships that advance patient care.
• Cross-Enterprise Alignment: Align approaches with other business units to ensure a consistent, risk-based Medical Ethics framework across the enterprise.
• Head Office Compliance Support: Partner with Compliance to deliver Code-related guidance, support risk assessments and Xceed preparation, and ensure Code-related processes are audit ready.
• Standards and Training: Maintain robust onboarding and refresher training on the ABPI Code for Head Office teams; lead training and validation of new Nominated Signatories; identify gaps and strengthen SOPs that fall under Medical Ethics scope.
• Team Leadership and Talent Development: Lead, coach and mentor Team Managers and Nominated Signatories; manage escalations; build a strong talent pipeline and succession plan; role model ethical and professional behaviour.