Associate Director, Medical Strategy and Operations, Anti-Infectives and Respiratory
GSKAssociate Director, Medical Strategy and Operations, Anti-Infectives and Respiratory
Location: Philadelphia, PA; Durham, NC
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 Associate Director, Medical Strategy and Operations, Anti-Infectives and Respiratory is responsible for enabling high-quality execution of Medical Affairs plans and operational excellence within the Therapeutic Area (TA). The role partners closely with Asset Medical Leads and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure medical plans are operationally sound, resourced appropriately, executed with rigor, and tracked for impact.
This role serves as operational lead for medicines or high priority initiatives and cross-Therapeutic Area operations partner as needed. This includes facilitating medical planning, budgeting and resourcing, monitoring performance, and driving continuous improvement in ways of working across asset teams / the Therapeutic Area. The Associate Director advances the operating model within the Therapeutic Area in alignment with enterprise operating model and ways of working, helping teams navigate change with agility.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate annual planning for assets, budget consolidation, forecasting, prioritization, and cross-team planning alignment, depending on organizational needs
- Serve as the primary medical operations partner for 1 or multiple Anti-Infectives and/or Respiratory medicines, supporting Asset Medical Leads in the development and execution of Medical Affairs plans
- Drive development of operational plans, including timelines, resourcing, budget assumptions, and execution milestones; support execution of tactics, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and enterprise requirements
- Track execution against plan, budget, and milestones; proactively identify risks, trade-offs, and mitigation strategies while ensuring adherence to established policies, SOPs, and governance expectations
- Coordinate Medical Matrix Team meetings and broader cross-TA forums, preparing clear, concise status updates and performance insights, and effective communication to leadership and stakeholders
- Embed the therapeutic area operating model and ways of working, including shared tools, templates, governance practices, and cross-team routines
- Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, improve transparency, and enhance speed and quality of execution within assigned assets; share best practices and lessons learned across assets and the broader community
- Support change initiatives by helping teams adopt new processes, tools, and behaviors with a high degree of agility, practical problem solving, and trust building in all directions
- Facilitate use of data, dashboards, and emerging digital and AI-enabled tools to improve planning quality, operational insights, and measurement of executional impact
- Coordinate as needed across operational support, including vendors, agencies, or outsourced support aligned to asset or therapeutic area needs
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Public Health, or related field
- Five or more years of experience in Medical Affairs operations, medical planning, business operations, or project/program management within pharma/biotech
- Two or more years of experience supporting medical planning and execution for a brand, asset, or therapeutic area
- Two or more years of experience tracking budgets, timelines, and execution metrics against plan
- Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a matrix environment and contributing to changes in ways of working
- Experience using data, dashboards, digital and AI-enabled tools to improve operational efficiency, insight generation, or impact measurement
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent), PMP certification, or other formal project management training
- Experience supporting Anti-Infectives and/or Respiratory Medical Affairs and/or launch or post-launch assets
- Demonstrated ability to drive process improvement and improve ways of working across HQ and field teams
- Proven ability to operate effectively in a matrix environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills
- Reputation as a reliable, execution-focused partner to medical and cross-functional leaders
Travel Expectations:
Ability to travel approximately 10–15%, as needed
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• 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 $154,275 to $257,125. 

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.



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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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