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Locations include GSK HQ in London, Wavre in Belgium, and Durham and Upper Providence in the USA.
Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit, insatiable curiosity, broad pharma expertise, and a strong commitment to deploying insights to guide business strategy? If so, consider being a key partner in the growth of GSK’s Respiratory Portfolio as Global Strategic Insights (GSI) Director, Respiratory.
GSK is seeking an individual collaborative mindset to drive strategic insight generation that will define and shape global product strategy for pipeline asset currently in Phase 3 trials. Working closely with the Head of GSI Respiratory, Global Product Strategy, and a wide, cross-functional group of partners you will:
Be a thought-partner for the Respiratory team.
Lead on insight generation to shape and drive commercial forecasts ensuring 100% adherence to market research compliance guidelines.
Partner with the Global Competitive Intelligence team to closely monitor the latest external developments and translate these into concise and impactful recommendations with cross-functional input.
Drive pull-through of insights into Global Product Strategy and ultimately impact the activities and focus of the organization based on sound insights.
Leverage technology and innovation to increase efficiency and/or effectiveness in insight generation, while maintaining rigor and quality.
Generate actionable and concise recommendations from a broad array of databases and solutions for our Respiratory TA.
Develop robust forecast models ensuring seamless integration of market and customer insights into sound forecasts that contribute to stage gating and investment planning decisions to inform governance, produce sensitivities and scenarios, and provide auditable references for sources, assumptions and decisions.
Prepare business cases for lifecycle innovation indications to be presented at governance milestone meetings.
Lead multiple workstreams and exert influence within cross-functional matrices.
Harness the latest research and analytical methodologies to drive a competitive edge for GSK.
Develop deep subject matter expertise across therapeutic areas, tracking trends, current and evolving competitive landscapes, and generating long-term strategic outlooks.
Deliver well-integrated, actionable insights and ensure their strategic application to support global strategy, governance, and investment decisions.
Manage vendor relationships to achieve a mutually rewarding partnership while ensuring excellence in insight generation execution.
Leverage a wide range of tools and resources to identify opportunities, assess program potential, and provide guidance to optimize development plans.
Continue to build your ability to influence the planning and activities of cross-functional teams to help create alignment, clarity and a clear sense of shared responsibility for the brands you work on.
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
BA/BS Degree in business, marketing, science or other related subjects.
Considerable experience in commercial insights & analytics gained from the pharmaceutical Industry.
Demonstrated experience in both market research (qualitative and quantitative) and forecasting.
Experience in research and analytics distillation, synthesis, and application to business issues.
Ability to leverage and synthesize a broad range of information sources to develop insight and generate clear, actionable recommendations that impact/drive decision-making at a business unit level.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior commercial leadership and confidently defend informed recommendations.
Successful matrix leadership experience working in a cross-functional capacity with the ability to influence without formal authority.
Strong verbal and written communication/ presentation skills.
Agility, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity.
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
MBA, MS, or MA in business, marketing, science or other related subjects.
Scenario-based planning experience with strong business acumen.
Ability to apply data and analyses to drive high impact business decisions.
Prior consulting or agency-side experience highly valued.
Deep understanding of the global pharmaceutical industry.
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.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).
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