Global Strategic Insights Director - Hepatology

Overview:

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 Hepatology Portfolio as Global Strategic Insights (GSI) Director, Hepatology.

GSK is seeking individual’s collaborative mindset to drive strategic insight generation that will define and shape Global Hepatology Strategy for both inline and pipeline assets. Working across assets and lifecycle stages with Brand Insights Directors, Global Product Strategy and a wide, cross-functional group of partners you will:

• Be a thought-partner for Hepatology teams

• Lead on insight generation to shape and drive commercial forecasts for some key disease areas in hepatology 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 Hepatology’s 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

This role will equip you with the opportunity to lead key activities to advance your career. These responsibilities include:

• 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 across therapeutic areas; 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 you 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

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• BA/BS Degree

• 7+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience

• 5+ years of commercial insights & analytics related experience

• Prior consulting or agency-side experience highly valued

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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

• Successful matrix leadership. Experience working in a cross-functional capacity

• Scenario-based planning

• Preference will be attributed to applicants with both market research AND forecasting expertise

• Research and analytics distillation, synthesis, and application to business issues

• Strong business acumen

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior commercial leadership and confidently defend informed recommendations

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

• Significant experience conducting qualitative and quantitative market research

• 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

• Deep understanding of the global pharmaceutical industry

• Strong verbal and written communication/ presentation skills

• Ability to work effectively across a matrix environment and influence without formal authority

• Demonstrated abil