Position Summary
A Medical Affairs Medical Director has strong clinical and scientific training and can take on many aspects of medical affairs work (insight generation, scientific communications, external scientific engagement, provision of medical advice to internal stakeholders). The focus of the Medical Director is to provide input and expertise into the medicine strategy, develop and execute the related tactical plans, support external scientific engagement, and provide insight and deeper understanding of the data generated including recommending medical statements.
Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
- Supports the US Medical Affairs Lead with development and execution of US medical affairs plans, and as needed.
- Leads planning and execution of medical tactics; contributes to medical material development, communication plans, application of external stakeholder insights.
- Partners with Medical Communications & Scientific Training and Medical Information to ensure medical materials created align with US medical strategy and business needs.
- Understands, interprets, and applies the external environment and competitive knowledge to all medical activities and can define the patient journey.
- Provides input into the selection of US investigator sponsored studies in alignment with the global franchise.
- Understands and communicates clinical and market access data requirements for the US market; in partnership with the US Medical Affairs Lead, provides input to shape clinical and health outcomes evidence plans to support anticipated US Market needs.
- In partnership with the US Medical Affairs Lead, provides input into the design of clinical trials, development plans, and integrated evidence planning; coordinates with relevant Global Medical colleagues and R&D (Research & Development) technical experts, e.g., Global Value Evidence and Outcomes and Epidemiology, as required.
- In collaboration with field medical, leads/contributes to appropriate US scientific engagement between GSK and external stakeholders/accounts to advance scientific and medical understanding including the appropriate development and use of our medicines, management of the disease, and patient care.
- Partners with all relevant internal stakeholders to ensure successful execution of all medical activities to support life cycle management, ensuring integrity of scientific content.
- Applies sound medical governance for all activities.
Work arrangement: This role is hybrid. You will work from home and on-site as needed for team collaboration, stakeholder meetings, and key events. Some travel will be required for meetings and conferences.
Basic Qualifications:
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:
- PharmD, PhD, MD or advanced degree.
- 4+ years industry and/or clinical experience in the oncology therapeutic area.
- Demonstrated success leading and managing cross-functional work.
- Disease and therapeutic area knowledge.
- Robust experience networking, communication, and influencing to work effectively in a complex matrix environment.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong internal and external networks.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Education and credentials
- Advanced clinical or scientific doctorate (MD, PharmD, PhD) with hematology/oncology specialization.
- Board certification or residency/fellowship training in hematology, oncology, or oncology pharmacy (BCOP).
- Formal training in clinical research, epidemiology, or implementation science.
Therapeutic area depth
- Direct experience in multiple myeloma or plasma cell disorders
- Familiarity with BCMA-targeted modalities — ADCs, bispecifics, CAR-T and the sequencing questions across them.
- Experience supporting a product with a REMS program, or with complex multidisciplinary safety monitoring (ocular, ophthalmology co-management, cardiac, neurologic).
Medical Affairs capability
- US Medical Affairs experience at a launch or early post-launch asset.
- Track record in evidence generation: RWE study design, ISS/IIS review, integrated evidence planning, external research collaborations.
- Publication and congress planning, including authorship on peer-reviewed manuscripts.
- Experience with compendia and guideline submissions (NCCN, pathways) and the compendia evidence package.
- Prior work in MLR/promotional review, medical governance, or medical information.
Engagement and ways of working
- Established relationships with academic and community
Hematology/oncology key external experts. - Experience with advisory boards, scientific workshops, and peer-to-peer or independent medical education programs.
- Field medical partnership — MSL training, insight synthesis, scientific narrative development.
- Experience working across a global/local matrix with Global Medical Affairs and R&D.
What we value
We look for people who put patients first, communicate with clarity and respect, and act with integrity. We welcome applicants who bring different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences. We support growth, learning and teamwork. If you want to help shape medical strategy that can improve care for people with cancer, we encourage you to apply.
How to apply
If this role speaks to your experience and purpose, please apply and tell us how your medical expertise will help deliver meaningful impact for patients and the healthcare community. We look forward to hearing about the impact you want to make.
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Skills
Cross-Functional Leadership, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, High Impact Communication, Launch Excellence, Patient Impact
• If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $187,500 to $312,500. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.
Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.
Why GSK?
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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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