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Director, Global Congress Strategy - Infectious Diseases

GlaxoSmithKline
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United States, North Carolina, Durham
406 & 410 Blackwell Street (Show on map)
Jul 25, 2025
Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Belgium-Wavre, UK - London - New Oxford Street, USA - Maryland - Rockville, USA - North Carolina - Durham, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Jul 24 2025

The Director, Global Congress Strategy in the Global Scientific Communications organization is responsible for driving annual congress planning within a specific therapeutic area of Infectious Disease. This strategic role will be pivotal in driving the development of TA-level congress plans, sponsorship decisions, and scientific narratives to enable the effective execution of all congress-related deliverables. This role will ensure that all narratives and plans are aligned within the asset and across the TA, partnering closely with Medical and Commercial teams for delivery.

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

  • Lead the annual congress planning process for the assigned therapeutic area, ensuring alignment with the overall medical and commercial strategy.

  • Develop and drive TA-level congress plans and decision-making, including sponsorship decisions and the creation of scientific narratives.

  • Ensure all congress narratives and plans are aligned within the asset and across the TA, partnering closely with Medical and Commercial teams to deliver cohesive and strategic congress outcomes.

  • Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with external vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure delivery of congress plans on strategy.

  • Provide strategic insights into the appropriate content needed to articulate the narrative within the context of broader medical and commercial strategies.

  • Deliver medical leadership and consistent excellence in congressing through society relationship management and partnership with local markets and cross-functional partners.

  • Evaluate and shape congress key performance indicators (KPIs) and share insights with teams to continually refine approaches, priorities, and investments.

  • Ensure adherence to all relevant codes and system requirements (e.g. ABPI code of practice, GSK Code), particularly with respect to the communication of promotional versus non-promotional information.

  • Gather and share best practices across global congresses to ensure consistency, high standards, and excellence are maintained across the organization.

  • Stay updated on advancements in congressing to ensure approaches evolve with the external landscape.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

  • Advanced degree in science, medicine, pharmacy, or a related field.

  • 7-10 years of related experience in scientific communications and/or congress planning and execution, with extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical congress industry, codes and practices.

  • Experience working with Medical and Commercial teams to deliver aligned and impactful outcomes.

  • Experience developing and implementing strategic plans and narratives, including innovative technology tools to articulate scientific narratives

  • Strong experience cultivating relationships with external stakeholders including physicians, payers and patients within the specific TA.

  • Has worked effectively with external vendors and internal stakeholders through excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to share insights to shape strategic approaches and investments.

  • Excellent project management skills over multiple projects simultaneously meeting deadlines.

  • Experience interpreting, analyzing, organizing, and presenting complex data to a broad range of audiences.

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 with relevant expertise in therapeutic area.

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

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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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