Director, Medical Communications and Scientific Training

This exciting career opportunity leads the development of US Respiratory & General Medicines medical communication assets and creates scientific communication plans, tactics, field medical educational material and external tools in alignment with the US Medical affairs leads.

This person will also be accountable for materials required at symposia, presentations, and MSL trainings; provides medical accuracy review on additional materials and will liaise with cross-functional team including medical information, commercial, and Global Medical Affairs. Additional responsibilities include representing US on the Global SciCom and/or Publications matrix teams, collaborating with investigators, congresses, medical experts and authors. The role will work in close partnership and collaboration with Global Scientific Communications and/or Publications organizations and the US Medical Information Team. 

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Creates US specific scientific narratives linked to evidence generation plans, US Medicine strategy, and specific to US customer dynamics.

• Creates US specific scientific communication plans in the US for GSK assets and leverages publication / data dissemination plan for the creation of simultaneous and aligned enduring materials and educational activities; leverages and applies Global plans to US market and US congress plans.

• Provides strong US voice into the development of Global Scientific Platforms and the Global content co-creation process.

• In partnership with Medical Information, develops robust, customer-segment specific scientific communication resources for both field medical and headquarters use (e.g., at congresses), and development and execution of innovative tools for internal and external communication including digital/social medical delivery.

• Ensures organization has a timely understanding of competitor scientific activity and its implication to the overall US treatment landscape and US scientific narratives; Disseminates internally up to date scientific data including recent publications, insights, presentations, study specific information, and scientific statements, providing training as needed to medical affairs associates.

• Develops and provides enhanced training support for our field medical teams on US Scientific Narratives, disease states, GSK and external competitive data.

• Accountable for accurate and impactful scientific deliverables including symposia, slide decks, MSL tools, and accuracy review of non-departmental driven materials (examples: publications & congress presentations, MI letters).

• For all deliverables, collaborates with investigators, congresses, medical experts and will liaise with cross-functional internal team including clinical development, medical, marketing and biostatistics.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• PharmD required.

• 3+ years of Medical Affairs experience.

• Has worked in pharmaceutical or communication company focusing on Medical for 3+ years.

• Experience in developing medical education tools and material for field medical and internal medical teams.

• Publication guidelines and practices experience needed.

• Strong experience interpret, analyze and organize scientific data.

• Strategic and tactical publication planning, development of abstracts, manuscripts, and slide decks with strong scientific content required.

• Experience with medical education meetings and digital/social medical delivery.

• Leading and working within cross-functional teams required.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• 5+ years of Medical Affairs experience.

• 2+ years direct Medical Communications or Scientific Training experience.

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Why GSK?

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to posi