Director, Global Strategic Insights - Respiratory Vaccines

In this role, you will drive strategic insight generation that will define and shape Global Product Strategy for our respiratory vaccines, one which is a critical launch asset addressing the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Working closely with the Medicine Commercialisation Leader, Brand Insights Directors, and a wide, cross-functional group of partners, you will:

• Lead insight generation to shape and drive commercial forecasts for business governance milestones, in close partnership with cross-functional teams


• Define, structure, plan, and commission global market research to proactively address key business questions and generate actionable and concise recommendations


• Leverage technology and innovation to increase efficiency and/or effectiveness in insight generation, while maintaining rigor and quality


• Develop robust forecast models ensuring seamless integration of market and customer insights into sound forecasts that contribute to investment planning decisions


• Partner with the Global Competitive Intelligence team to closely monitor the latest external developments, and translate these into concise and impactful recommendations


• Be a thought-partner for the cross-functional teams, 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 in lead indication, 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 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.


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

• Bachelor's degree


• Strong track record of pharmaceutical industry experience, preferably encompassing both global and regional business analytics & insights roles


• Significant experience conducting market research, combined with forecasting expertise


• Prior consulting and vaccines experience


Preferred Qualifications:

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

• MBA, MS, or MA in business, marketing science, or science


• Demonstrated ability to apply data and analyses to drive high impact business decisions


• 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, combined with strong communication and presentation skills


• Prior experience supporting product launch and/or business development opportunity assessment


• Agility, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity
  
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At GSK, we unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We prioritise research into vaccines and medicines across our four core therapeutic areas of infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/immunology, and oncology. We also remain open to other opportunities where the science aligns with our strategic approach.

Our vaccines portfolio is the broadest in the industry, helping protect people from RSV, meningitis, shingles, flu, polio, measles and many more. Two million of our vaccines are administered every day, and 4 in 10 children receive a GSK vaccine each year.

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 Vaccines as Global Strategic Insights (GSI) Director, Respiratory Vaccines., 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).

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