Director, Medical Strategy and Operations

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

The Director, Medical Strategy and Operations is accountable for driving operational excellence across the US Vaccines Medical team. This role serves as a strategic partner to the Vaccines Medical Team, enabling high-quality execution of medical strategy through strong planning, governance, resourcing, budgeting, execution tracking, and performance management.

The role ensures that medical activities are delivered efficiently, compliantly, and with measurable impact, while continuously improving ways of working across headquarters medical teams and advancing adoption of AI-enabled and data-driven operational capabilities. This leader operates with high autonomy and is accountable for shaping and integrating portfolio-level strategies and tactics as needed, enabling seamless cross-functional alignment and serving as a conduit between Leadership and the matrix teams to enhance goal clarity, communication, and delivery.  Through leadership of TA-specific meetings, planning processes, and continuous improvement initiatives, this leader will strengthen decision-making, elevate operational rigor, support organizational evolution, and accelerate delivery of high-impact medical strategies that position Medical as a trusted strategic partner.

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

• Lead and oversee core medical operations processes for the US Vaccines Medical team, including medical planning, execution tracking, governance, and performance monitoring.

• Shape and integrate portfolio-level strategies and tactics as needed

• Own and coordinate annual medical planning and budgeting, ensuring alignment to enterprise requirements, therapeutic area priorities, and Global and Commercial where needed.

• Support resource planning, capacity assessments, and prioritization across the US Vaccines medical organization.

• Monitor execution against plans and budgets, proactively identifying risks, trade-offs, and optimization opportunities, and escalating recommendations to senior leadership as needed.

• Shape and evolve the medical operating model, including governance, decision-making forums, and ways of working that improve clarity, speed, accountability, and collaboration across the matrix.

• Lead roll-out and embedding of change initiatives, helping teams navigate ambiguity and adopt new processes, tools, and behaviors with agility and sustained engagement.

• Drive consistency, rigor, and best practices across Medical Affairs operations, while identifying, sharing across the enterprise, and implementing process improvements that simplify workflows and improve speed and quality of execution.

• Advance the use of AI and other digital tools to improve operational efficiency, insight generation, planning quality, and team effectiveness.

• Establish and refine impact measurement frameworks, including KPIs, dashboards, operating reviews, and other mechanisms to assess performance and inform data-driven decisions.

• As needed, lead the development of the TA’s communication plan inclusive of Townhalls, live meetings, and other connections with staff to enhance culture.

• May manage Medical Operations team members, offshore project management support, and third-party vendors as applicable.

• Partner with senior medical leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to lead strategic initiatives, support launch readiness where relevant, and ensure adherence to established policies and SOPs.

Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Life Sciences, Public Health or related field

• 8+ years of experience in Medical Affairs operations, business operations, or PMO within pharma/biotech.

• 3+ years of experience owning annual planning and budgeting processes for a Medical or cross-functional organization, including tracking against plan.

• 3+ years of experience establishing and run