Director, Global Patient Communications and Society Partnerships

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USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Durham Blackwell Street, UK – London – New Oxford Street, USA - Massachusetts - Waltham, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Posted Date: Jan 8 2026

Position Summary

The Director, Global Patient Communications and Society Partnerships in the Global Scientific Communications organization is responsible for developing and executing strategies to enhance engagements with medical professional societies to address scientific communication needs across all audiences, including patients.

This role involves ensuring that GSK’s science and data dissemination initiatives align with the needs of patients, by fostering meaningful collaboration that drives impact in the healthcare ecosystem. The individual in this role will leverage a deep understanding of professional societies, building external partnerships and shaping innovative engagement approaches to enhance integrated medical communication plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of professional society and patient communication plans across therapeutic areas to address unmet audience needs, ensuring alignment with GSK’s scientific communications objectives.
• Coordinates the development and delivery of impactful educational content tailored to the needs of societies and patient organization in accordance with health literacy requirements.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including internal patient engagement teams, society patient offices, external patient advocacy groups and thought leaders, to ensure delivery of prioritized patient educational activities
• Define innovative content strategies as part of integrated medical communication planning, ensuring that materials resonate with patients and professional societies groups while adhering to compliance and regulatory standards.
• Proactively evaluate key conferences, congresses, webinars and patient-centered events where GSK Medical can effectively engage and deliver value-driven content.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop initiatives such as webinars, podcasts, plain language summary deliverables, and other patient educational content aligned with the Patient Engagement organization.
• Align with GSK’s corporate communications, government affairs and advocacy team on initiatives that involve patient organizations and professional societies, providing clear rationale for participation, content and key partnerships
• Define key performance indicators for patient engagement to ensure meaningful impact.
• Continuously assess new partnership opportunities, identifying new ways to drive content dissemination that meets the needs of patient audiences

Why You?

Basic Qualification

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

• Advanced degree in science, medicine, or pharmacy.
• 7+ years of related scientific communication, patient advocacy, and/or medical affairs work experience.
• Experience developing and executing medically driven and patient-focused content initiatives across therapeutic areas.
• Strong scientific communications, patient content needs, health literacy principles, and regulatory considerations experience with pharmaceutical company partnerships.
• Experience working with physicians, societies, and patient advocacy organizations to drive scientific data dissemination.
• Competency to synthesize insights from external stakeholders including patients and translate them into meaningful, impact content strategies.
• Experience working cross-functionally across Medical, Commercial, Digital and Advocacy teams
• Solid technical capabilities in Excel, PowerPoint, and Team sites.
• Familiarity interpreting, analyzing, organizing, and presenting complex data to a broad range of audiences in ways that matter to them most.
• Solid time management expertise, to clearly identify priorities, and manage multiple tasks.

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Experience working within pharmaceutical or biotech medical affairs functions.
• Experience with integrated communication plans across digital and live channels.
• Familiarity with measuring engagement and outcomes for patient education programs.
• Comfort working with patient advisory boards and co-creation processes.
• Experience translating complex scientific data into plain language for patients and caregivers.
• Prior work with policy, corporate advocacy teams, or regulatory colleagues on patient-facing initiatives.

Working style and impact

You will work in a collaborative, inclusive environment that values clear communication and practical results. You will have opportunities to grow your skills in communications strategy, stakeholder engagement, and program measurement. We welcome applicants from varied backgrounds and lived experiences. If you are motivated to make patient-focused communications better and to build meaningful partnerships, please apply and tell us how your experience will help advance our mission.

• 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 $187,275 to $312,125.

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?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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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