GlaxoSmithKline LLC Posted August 18, 2026

Medical Director, USMA Respiratory

Upper Providence, United States Full time
Medical Affairs Respiratory Director
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About this opportunity

Position Summary

The Medical Director, USMA Respiratory, will work as part of the Medical Matrix Team responsible for the medical impact of an asset. The Medical Director helps develop the medical strategy and executes MA tactics for a Key Asset.

If you seek a role where your medical affairs leadership acumen supporting key therapeutic areas would align for your career aspirations, then this could be the opportunity for you!

Responsibilities

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

Responsible for helping to develop US medical strategy and perspective, ensuring medical strategy and plans are aligned with commercial asset strategy where appropriate.

Contribute to the cross-functional Medical Matrix Team to tailor / adapt global asset strategy for US specific customer needs and environment.  Contribute to strategic oversight of US Tactical Plans aligned to strategy.

Gain strategic alignment of asset positioning and evidence planning with the overall therapeutic portfolio and disease area strategies.

Engage with external communities to advance scientific and medical understanding including the appropriate development and use of our medicines, the management of disease, and patient care.  Coordinate with the US MSLs, GMAL on joint global and US engagement of top US based EEs where appropriate.

Works to understand the evolving healthcare environment (provider/expert) and payer landscapes and help to translate that working knowledge into a plan.

Reviews, synthesizes, and analyses clinical trial and RWE data and translates data into actionable plans at the product level.

Develops product strategy for local Medical Advisory Board and Expert Panel meetings and Consultancies, Medical Grants, and Medical Publications.

Supports Medical Information on FAQs and standard response letters

Follows sound medical governance for all activities.

Basic Qualifications:

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

Healthcare Doctorate (PharmD, PhD, MD, DO, DNP, NP, PA).

5+ Pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical communications industry experience.

Experience working in a US healthcare environment.

External stakeholder management experience.

Experience working in medical affairs accountabilities, evidence generation, external peer-peer HCP engagement and provide internal advice.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

3-5 years medical affairs, scientific director or medical director, HQ experience.

Must demonstrate respiratory experience disease area expertise and appropriate medical and/or clinical experience.

Must demonstrate excellent communications skills.

Experienced in interacting with all levels of management and staff

Enable and drive change – must clearly demonstrate ability to influence to deliver results, proactively look for new opportunities and constantly anticipate the need for change.

Continuous improvement – ability to drive and continuously curious in a performance-based culture.

Flexible thinking – ability to analyze external environment and translate to strategy and gain support of others to implement a vision. Must demonstrate good judgment.

Customer focused – ability to understand patient needs and institutional concerns, integrate strategies and build a team that is customer focused.

Building relationships – ability to work effectively with others, delegate appropriately and foster a culture of collaboration.

Working at GSK

You will join a team that values respectful collaboration and inclusion. We support your development with opportunities to grow clinically and scientifically. Apply if you are excited to help shape respiratory science and improve patient outcomes.

How to apply

If this role speaks to you, please submit your CV and a brief cover note explaining why you are interested and how your experience fits this role. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Skills

Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, External Stakeholder Management, High Impact Communication, Patient Impact

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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Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Medical Affairs
Therapeutic area
Respiratory
Location
Upper Providence, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 254 comparable Director Medical Affairs roles across 47 biopharma companies.

254Comparable roles tracked
240Currently active
47Companies hiring similar roles
20Countries represented

Salary context

131 of 254 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Principal Strategic Medical Writer · AbbVie $109,500/yr – $208,500/yr
Highest disclosed · Sr Medical Director (Heme Oncology) (Boston, US) · Servier $298/hr – $350/hr (≈ $619,840–$728,000/yr)
Peer group range $159,000 – $673,920 (median $264,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 254 comparable roles

United States194
United Kingdom15
Switzerland8
China's Mainland8
Japan6
Spain4

+ 14 more countries

Seniority mix

254 of 254 peers have a known seniority level

Director225
Senior Director22
Principal7

Therapeutic area mix

111 of 254 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology53
Neuroscience14
Immunology10
Cardiovascular / CVRM7
Respiratory7
Vaccines & Infectious Disease6
Rare Disease6
Dermatology & Aesthetics5
Ophthalmology2
Gastroenterology1

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