Global Strategic Insights Director

Site Name: UK - London - New Oxford Street, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Posted Date: Feb
Job Description

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 Meningitis Vaccines Portfolio as Global Strategic Insights (GSI) Director, Meningitis.

GSK is seeking individual's collaborative mindset to drive strategic insight generation that will define and shape Global Meningitis Vaccines Strategy for both inline and pipeline assets. Working across assets and lifecycle stages with Global Product Strategy, Research & Development and a wide, cross-functional group of partners you will:

Job Responsibilities:

• Be a thought-partner for the Meningitis team
• Lead on insight generation to shape and drive commercial forecasts for the meningitis inline and pipeline assets for business governance milestones, 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 to meaningfully influence GSK Meningitis strategic trajectory
• 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

Why You? Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• Areas of specialism: Life Science, Business or Marketing
• Minimum 5 years' experience in healthcare, in pharmaceutical (medical or marketing background), market research agency, management consultancy or financial institution
• Proven application of high-quality commercial analytics and ability to provide insightful commercial and market insight
• Ability to travel 10 -15% globally.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree
• Experience of vaccines
• Proven ability in asset and portfolio forecasting
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and proven ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Thorough conceptual understanding of the vaccine development and commercialization process.
• Experienced in a global matrix environment, able to drive impact across a range of functions, seniority, and geographical locations.
• Proven ability to operate effectively within a highly dynamic environment
• Ability to lead the delivery of projects from end to end and take ownership and accountability for the deliverables
• Experience in working with individuals in countries, working with them to obtain appropriate country-level information and insight

Closing Date for Applications: 21 February (EOD)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.