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Patient Communications and Society Partnerships Lead

GlaxoSmithKline
paid holidays
United States, Maryland, Rockville
Jul 25, 2025
Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Durham Blackwell Street, UK - London - New Oxford Street, USA - Maryland - Rockville, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Jul 24 2025

The Patient Communications and Society Partnerships Lead 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Advanced degree in science, medicine, or pharmacy.

  • 7-10 years of related scientific communication, patient advocacy, and/or medical affairs work experience.

  • Proven ability to develop and execute medically driven and patient-focused content initiatives across therapeutic areas.

  • Strong understanding of scientific communications, patient content needs, health literacy principles, and regulatory considerations with pharmaceutical company partnerships.

  • Experience working with physicians, societies, and patient advocacy organizations to drive scientific data dissemination.

  • Ability to synthesize insights from external stakeholders including patients and translate them into meaningful, impact content strategies.

  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally across Medical, Commercial, Digital and Advocacy teams.

  • Solid technical capabilities in Excel, PowerPoint, and Team sites.

  • Ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and present complex data to a broad range of audiences in ways that matter to them most.

  • Effective time management, ability to clearly identify priorities, and manage multiple tasks.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

  • Advanced degree in science, medicine, or pharmacy.

  • 7-10 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 experience with scientific communications, patient content needs, health literacy principles, and regulatory considerations with pharmaceutical company partnerships.

  • Experience working with physicians, societies, and patient advocacy organizations to drive scientific data dissemination.

  • Solid experience synthesizing insights from external stakeholders including patients, translating 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.

  • Solid experience interpreting, analyzing, organizing, and presenting complex data to a broad range of audiences in ways that matter to them most.

  • Effective time management, experience clearly identifying priorities, and managing multiple tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

  • Postgraduate degree (PhD or PharmD).

  • Local, regional, or global medical or R&D experience.

  • Scientific communication strategies for large global markets in US, UK, EU, China and Japan.

#LI-GSK

The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $165,000 to $275,000 taking 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.

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 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 organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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