Associate Director, Oncology Portfolio

Site Name: Durham Blackwell Street, USA - Massachusetts - Waltham, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Posted Date: Feb 18 2025

Are you a professional with Oncology experience interested in building relationships and maintaining engagements? If so, this Associate Director, Oncology Portfolio role may be an ideal opportunity to explore!

As the Associate Director, Oncology Portfolio for the US Medical Oncology Therapeutic Area (TA), you will be responsible for planning, implementing, and tracking US Oncology professional society engagement and congress plans, while establishing and maintaining strong relationships between GSK and US-based professional healthcare organizations. In this role, you will establish and maintain strong, trusted relationships with key professional organizations, and drive execution of congress plans that will enable GSK to establish its position as a leader in Oncology.

Key Responsibilities:

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

1. Lead cross-organizational congress planning teams to define congress attendance (i.e. type of exhibit, symposia, etc.) and ensure planning, development, and execution based on the USMA objectives and needs, in line with all compliance, SOPs, GSK standards and LOC standards. Identify/work to resolve any specific challenges/issues with plans and provide guidance and recommendations on the role congresses can play in achieving strategic objectives.
2. Project manage GSK’s Medical presence at US congresses to ensure successful on-site delivery.
3. Act as a trusted business partner to the Oncology Global Team and US Pharma to drive continuous improvement by introducing innovative ideas and identifying better ways to creatively streamline events and congresses and align congresses as part of the broader multi-channel strategy.
4. Contribute to efforts that support US scientific engagement between GSK and external communities in order to advance scientific and medical understanding including the appropriate development and use of our medicines, the management of disease, and patient care.
5. Provide support for omnichannel tactics/customer journeys in collaboration with the US medical communication team.
6. Provide input to the USMA annual strategic planning process as an integral member of the cross-organizational teams that define the role of congresses/professional society engagement in supporting Oncology TA strategic goals.
7. Manage third-party vendors and agencies to ensure all necessary contracts are negotiated and in place, they are compliant with the relevant code of practice requirements, and they deliver at or above expectations at events.
8. Support portfolio-level medical tactics; contribute to medical material development, communication plans, and application of customer insights as relevant to the role.
9. Support for execution and ongoing evaluation of the Oncology Professional Society Engagement plan, including funding of Memberships, Sponsorships, and Congresses in collaboration with Medicine Leads and the Medical Communication team. This includes budget development, monitoring, processing through internal approvals and funding committees, revising spending as needed, and executional tracking.
10. Develop and manage relationships with Professional Societies and/or Congress Organizers to ensure GSK is best positioned for engagement and attendance at national events.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

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

1. Master’s Degree in related field, or PharmD, PhD, nursing, allied health professional (eg, epidemiology) or other scientific degree.
2. 2 or more years of Pharmaceutical Industry Experience.
3. Experience working in the Oncology therapeutic area.
4. Experience leading cross-organizational congress planning teams to define congress attendance (i.e. type of exhibit, symposia, etc.) and ensure planning, development, and execution based on the USMA objectives.
5. Experience in leading, managing and working collaboratively with internal and external cross-functional teams, with or without authority.
6. Experience working in a large matrix environment.
7. Experience with successfully planning, managing, and executing large, cross-functional, medical programs and/or initiatives such as medical congresses.
8. Experience working in Smartsheet + basic Microsoft 365 (Outlook, OneNote, Teams, Office).

Preferred Qualifications:

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

1. Generating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgment to balance pace, rigor, and risk.
2. Committed to delivering high-quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
3. Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
4. Sustaining energy and well-being.
5. Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
6. Budgeting and cost-consciousness.
7. Proven team player with strong interpersonal skills and leadership skills.

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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 organization 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 well-being. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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