Commercial Director Vaccines (m/f/d)

Are you looking for a senior level sales and marketing role that shapes our commercial strategy and accelerates customer engagement?  If so this Sales & Marketing Combined Director role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As a Sales and Marketing Combined Director, you will be responsible for raising the quality and consistency of Launch Excellence and Business Planning within the business franchises and across the Regions.

This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Global implementation and continuous improvement of the Launch Excellence
  Framework across all Franchises and, through liaison, across all Regions – this includes:

• Process content ownership; partnering and supporting business franchises & Local Operating Companies (LOCs) with implementation of the Launch Excellence steps

• Identifying and sharing key launch insights/learning and incorporating these into the Launch Excellence process

• Monitoring global launch performance to assess the business impact of the Launch Excellence process

• Supporting Franchises & Regions with launch performance including course correction, optimisation and a disciplined approach

•             Responsible for the systematic implementation of the global Brand Planning Process across the Franchises and, through liaison, all Regions, with consistency being achieved through common standards/tools/language and supported through rigorous quality check interventions.

•             Deliver consistency, discipline and rigour in our commercial approach by creating and continuously improving the standards, tools and language that underpin, align and integrate the core commercial processes and embed these within the Franchises and, through liaison, all Regions to simplify our operations (e.g. GSK Marketing Ways, Customer Engagement Framework).

•             Develop and retain strong Project Management expertise, infused with Launch Excellence learning, insight and best practice, to deliver ways of working that increase organizational expertise and consistency in bringing new medicines to successful launch.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree

• 10 years of senior commercial experience as General Manager or senior marketing role in large market

• Product launch experience and commercial support of assets through different stages of development

• Experience in regional or Local Operating Company (LOC) Commercial roles in both sales and marketing

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• MBA

• Accelerated Delivery Program (ADP) Practitioner

• Ability to influence, challenge thinking and gain credibility with senior stakeholders

• A record of strategic thinking and disciplined execution

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.

• Managing individual performance.

• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.

• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.

• Building a resilient organisation.

• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.

• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

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 i