Job Description

At GSK, we focus on delivering innovative medicines to prevent and treat disease. While much progress has been made in the past few years, more can be done to REDEFINE EXPECTATIONS across infectious diseases, HIV, oncology, and immunology. 

We want to be ambitious for patients and to do that we need great people. We need a Global Strategic Insights Director to help drive the commercial launch.

The ideal candidate for the role will have experience navigating matrixed team, providing an aligned and objective view of the market environment for the General Medicines business.

In this role, you will be the Strategic Insight Director driving the insights for investment decisions and having accountability for the commercial forecast of the product and as needed other General Medicine pipeline assets. You will have the opportunity to provide insightful and objective analysis of commercial business development opportunities and analysis of market trends. As the Strategic Insight Director, you will lead primary market research, integrate information across sources and stakeholders presenting insights to senior internal stakeholders across the business. 

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead critical activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Develop robust, evidence-based global forecasts for General Medicines assets progressing through development milestones and governance decision points in GSK
• Define, structure, plan and commission global market research required to answer questions not already addressed through internal knowledge and experience and/or secondary data sources, ensuring all market insight activities are conducted according to relevant Codes of Conduct
• Contribute to the formulation of product strategy, in conjunction with therapy area teams to ensure that maximum return is obtained from the development and commercialization of products.
• Provide market landscape and therapy area overviews to support strategy and trade off decisions across the development portfolio
• Provide valuation and opportunity assessment for business development opportunities, identify sensitivities and key areas of uncertainty in the forecast and communicate these risks appropriately to senior management, providing broad context and foresight
• Ensure through delivery of market research, that high-quality insights are derived and integrated into wider asset understanding and medicine strategy
• Lead input for internal asset planning and development processes by contributing evidence based situational analyses, forecasts, defining appropriate pre- and post-launch KPIs
• 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.
• Challenge existing thinking and contribute to developing disruptive commercial strategies and recommendations that impact the pipeline value for assets within the therapy area

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• BS/BA
• 8+ years of combined commercially oriented functional experience (insights, finance, marketing, forecasting, sales, analytics)

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• MBA is preferred
• 4+ years of market insight and or analytics specific functional experience (marketing/sales analytics, forecasting, etc.) 
• Extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry (preferably encompassing both global and regional strategy/commercial insights roles)
• Launch experience and or business development opportunity assessment
• High degree of creativity and innovation in developing new approaches, processes and methodologies
• Ability to influence without authority across matrixed organizations
• Proactivity and ability to work autonomously across commercial team
• Excellent communication (written, verbal and presentation)

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary t o 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 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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