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Senior Director Product and Portfolio Strategy
Sector: Project and Program Management, Sales and Business Development
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Site Name: UK - London - New Oxford Street, Belgium - Wavre, Philadelphia Walnut Street, USA - Massachusetts - Boston
Posted Date: Feb 5 2025
As a Senior Director, Global Product and Portfolio Strategy, you will play a strategic role and be a key member of the Global Vaccines Commercial and Portfolio Strategy Team. This position reports to the Vice President Commercial and Portfolio Strategy within the broader Vaccines Global Product Strategy organization. Location is to be at one of the major GSK sites; Wavre, London, Philadelphia or Boston, with some flexibility in Europe or East Coast US on locations for the right candidate.
In this role, you need to bring exceptional strategic thinking and leadership skills, with the ability to synthesize complex and diverse information to craft clear, actionable strategic imperatives that will drive long-term value for the Vaccines portfolio.
You will use your expertise with business-strategy development, business case generation, asset valuation and associated analytics and intelligence methodologies to ensure that we are designing and executing optimal commercial strategies for our products to add value to our portfolio.
Spanning science, medical practice, competitive intelligence, strategy, marketing, corporate finance and early-stage investment, you will be responsible for using business cases to ensure alignment between key strategic levers e.g. the target vaccine profile (TVP), key claims, clinical development plans (CDP) and major internal and external risks, opportunities and uncertainties for our portfolio and target external assets.
In the role you will influence portfolio strategy development, proposing investments, both internal and external. You will be a key member of the teams that are responsible for product and strategy development, for championing investment projects and presenting the associated investment proposals at the Vaccines Research Unit Board, the Financial Review Committee (FRC) and Pharma Investment Board (PIB).
From an asset perspective, you will be accountable for asset and disease area strategy business cases of new assets, ensuring that the business cases and investment strategies accurately, transparently and fully reflect internal and external data, assumptions, ambiguities, risks and opportunities.
You need to be fluent in the science behind the diseases and assets, as well as having working knowledge of the development pathways to enable discussion and debate with relevant business partners, and to establish relationships with global key external experts and academic/community centers.
In this role you will be expected to:
At the Global Vaccines strategy level:
* Contribute to the development of the Global Vaccines strategy via cross-functional collaboration.
* Understand the macro factors affecting the global vaccines market and scientific evolution.
* Own and generate multifactorial analyses of the internal and external environments.
* Provide insights on competitive forces and their relationship to GSK's pursuit of its vaccines strategy.
* Develop actionable recommendations grounded in robust analysis, balancing immediate goals with long-term enterprise priorities.
* Work positively with many functions around the organization in both global and key country teams.
At the asset level:
* Work closely with the Vice President, Commercial and Portfolio Strategy, to ensure alignment of asset-level strategies with broader portfolio objectives.
* Critically evaluate the value and strategic alignment of programs under your/your team's remit.
* Develop robust, evidence-based global market and asset forecasts and valuations for internal early pipeline vaccines.
* Collaborate with R&D and Medical to design and refine medical and commercial strategies.
* Define, structure, plan and commission market research required to answer questions not already addressed through internal knowledge and experience.
* Provide market landscapes and therapy area overviews to support strategy and trade-off decisions associated with investment proposals.
Requirements
Basic Qualifications/experience:
* Minimum degree level Business, Finance, Health Economics, Marketing, Science or equivalent.
* Considerable experience in healthcare, in pharmaceutical, management consultancy or financial institution.
* Experience of contributing to the development of product and/or portfolio strategies.
* Proven application of high-quality strategic analytics.
* Demonstrate fluency in immunology, vaccinology, and related scientific disciplines.
* Thorough understanding of the drug development and commercialization process.
* Ability to lead the delivery of projects from end to end.
Preferred Qualifications/experience:
* MBA, PhD, MD preferred - postgraduate degrees in medicine and/or science and business/strategy.
* Experience in building and maintaining collaborative partnerships with internal medical organizations.
Closing Date for Applications: 15th February 2025 (EOD)
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent.
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