Senior Director, Head of Global Strategic Insights – Oncology

Senior Director, Head of Global Strategic Insights – Oncology

Location: Collegeville, PA and London, UK

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 Oncology Franchise, leading the Global Strategic Insights for our Oncology assets.

GSK is seeking individuals’ collaborative mindset to drive strategic insight generation that will help define Global Product Strategy for some of GSK’s Oncology portfolio. Leading a team and working closely with leadership across business functions you will:

• Help shape the relevant portfolios and thought partner with the global product strategy leads
• Lead and manage a team of market research professionals, guiding them in the design, execution, and analysis of market research projects to assess market trends, competitive landscape, customer preferences, and emerging opportunities
• Be responsible for team connectivity with the business, the team’s development and wellbeing
• Lead the cross-functional team to consolidate these insights, competitor data, development updates, medical inputs & Voice of the Patient and translate these into concise and impactful recommendations, which carry the credibility to drive action
• Direct the insight generation to shape and drive commercial forecasts for your team’s assets
• Partner cross-functionally on business development search and evaluation initiatives
• Build and lead an above-asset view of the relevant spaces to ensure aligned thinking and a single-source of truth for assets in the same space
• Identify, assess and implement better ways of working, including technology and innovation solutions to accelerate senior leader decision-making

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

• Highly visible role with leadership at GSK and the opportunity to help GSK be ambitious for patients
• Lead and have insight into multiple workstreams, and exert significant influence within cross-functional matrices
• Adopt and adapt to new ways of working that drive a competitive edge for GSK
• Deliver well-integrated, actionable insights and ensure their strategic application to support global strategy, governance, and investment decisions
• Drive commercial forecast generation to ensure seamless integration of market and customer insights into sound forecasts that contribute to stage gating and investment planning 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
• Ensure 100% adherence to market research compliance guidelines and all GSK policies and procedures

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• BS/BA required
• 10+ years of professional experience in pharmaceuticals, biotech or medical devices
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in people management
• Minimum of 6 years in insight, business/commercial strategy, marketing, and or marketing/sales analytics

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Oncology, Specialty or Rare Disease experience is preferred.
• Successful matrix leadership. Experience working in a cross-functional capacity
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior commercial leadership and confidently defend informed recommendations
• Clear potential to grow in to and through this role into other senior leadership roles in future
• Preference will be attributed to applicants with both market research AND forecasting expertise
• Strong business acumen
• Executive presence that brings gravitas to outputs and recommendation
• 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 ability to influence senior commercial leadership
• Agility, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity

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