Job Description

As a Strategic Insights Director within our Global Strategic Insights Team, you will be a trusted and independent partner to the Global Product Strategy Teams, bringing an unbiased view and broader perspective of the opportunities for both our brands and our disease areas. This global role has lead accountability for our flu-COVID vaccine which is entering an exciting phase of its’ life cycle.  As the Strategic Insight Director, you will manage global market research projects to uncover deep customer insights and develop forecasts to ensure that robust evidence-based insight is available for key decision points to optimize the launch planning and evaluation of the vaccine.  Demonstrating a strategic mindset, you will build trusted relationships with senior commercial leaders and colleagues in the priority global markets.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop robust, evidence-based global market valuations and forecasts to support life-cycle ambition and launch planning through development milestones and governance decision points in GSK
• Oversees and guides development and integration of industry-leading customer insight and analytics helping the organization to frame business problems and opportunities to shape future-proofed strategies and drive performance, in line with the Integrated Asset Plan (IAP)
• Drives strong decision making and able to challenge the business and senior stakeholders with robust insight and evidence generation
• Acts as a trusted and independent strategic partner to drive data-driven strategies and decisions
• Model and foster collaboration with multiple stakeholders beyond the Global Product Strategy team, including R&D, finance, market access and our priority global markets
• Contribute to initiatives to improve the quality of market / brand understanding and forecasting through analogue and benchmarking exercises based on secondary data and competitor intelligence.
• Contribute to the training and development of our offshore partner to ensure it is optimized to deliver maximum value and on-time delivery
• Ensure all market insight and activities are conducted in an ethical way and according to relevant Codes of Conduct.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree -Areas of specialism:  Life Science, Business or Marketing
• Minimum of 5 years’ marketing or market research experience in the Pharmaceutical healthcare industry or a market research agency.

• Minimum of 5 years commercial analytics experience and the ability to provide insightful commercial and market insights.
• 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

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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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