US Medical Affairs Lead, Hepatology

Site Name: Durham Blackwell Street, USA - Massachusetts - Waltham, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Posted Date: Feb 12 2026

Position Summary

The US Medical Affairs Lead for Hepatology is accountable for overall US medical strategy and achievement of the tactical objectives to support launch. This leader is responsible for ensuring strategic alignment across the organization and representing US needs to ensure patients have access to and can benefit from its scientific advancements and innovation.

You will lead Medical Affairs activities across the United States, shaping medical strategy, evidence planning, and external engagement. You will work closely with global teams, commercial partners, and clinical development. We value clear communicators and innovative thinkers who put patients first, collaborate across functions, and drive measurable impact. This role offers career growth, visible influence, and work that aligns with our mission of uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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

• Accountable for US medical asset strategy and execution for all medical activities in the US driving effective alignment and synergy across the GSK enterprise where applicable.

• Medical leader on the Integrated Business Commercialization Team (IBCT) for Hepatology in the US representing the medical strategy and perspective and ensuring alignment to the commercial asset strategy as appropriate.

• Serves as a core member on the Global Medical Team to develop the global medical asset strategy, evidence generation plan, and integrated communication plan. Represents the US perspective at global leadership team meetings, bringing a strong view on US customer needs and access considerations.

• Leads the cross-functional Medical Matrix Team to strategically plan, create action plans based on incoming insights, track progress and measure impact against the medical plan throughout the year.

• Has in-depth understanding of the medical unmet needs in chronic hepatitis B and strategically aligns activities and innovation to measurably address them.

• Working with Therapy Area Head, ensures strategic alignment of asset positioning and evidence planning with the overall therapeutic portfolio and disease area strategies.

• Leads medical engagement between GSK and external communities to advance scientific and medical understanding including the appropriate development and use of our medicines, the management of disease, and patient care. Coordinates with the field medical, payer, and policy teams on engagement plans and objectives in order to achieve asset communication goals and outcomes.

• Working in concert with the US real world evidence team, accountable for local evidence generation planning.

• Overall budget accountability for the asset in the US. Prioritizes investments to achieve measurable outcomes for patients.

• Effectively manage and professionally develop multiple medical staff reporting directly into role.

• Applies sound medical governance for all activities and is accountable for medical governance oversight and sign off for all asset activities.

Why You?


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

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree such as MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent.

• Relevant experience in the therapeutic area of hepatology.

• 5 + years of pharmaceutical industry experience with Medical Affairs responsibilities.

• Experience working effectively in a matrix environment.

• Expertise developing medical strategy and evidence generation plans, and to deliver against asset operational plans

• Strong stakeholder engagement and external scientific communication proficiency.

Preferred Qualification

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

• Clinical or industry experience supporting liver disease.

• Experience leading medical strategy for pipeline assets and supporting launches

• Experience launching an asset in a new therapeutic area

• Background providing input to clinical trial design or serving as medical monitor.

• Knowledge of US payer, health technology assessment, and US market access needs.

• Experience managing budgets and prioritizing investments for medical activities.

• Track record building external scientific networks and advisory boards.

• Demonstrated experience coaching and developing medical teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

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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 $241,725 to $402,875.

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.

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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