09 Oct
GSK
Mississauga
**18 month contract opportunity **
DESCRIPTION:
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the Vaccines Specialty Care team at GSK, responsible for marketing our vaccines to specialists in Cardiology, Endocrinology, and Nephrology.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As Senior Product Manager, Vaccines - Specialty Care, you will be a key contributor in this team’s ambition to redefine the role of specialty care in protecting patients against vaccine-preventable diseases. You will contribute to brand strategic and operational planning and lead execution of tactics and activities targeting key HCPs, hospital programs, and account stakeholders.
You will work collaboratively with the cross functional teams within the Vaccines Business Unit to ensure strong communication, alignment, and collaboration to drive excellence in execution of commercial activities. You will also work closely with the Key Account Management (KAM) team to support implementation of commercial strategy. This strategy will be executed in alignment to GSK Values and Mission: To unite science, talent, and technology to get ahead of disease together. How we do this is through our people and our culture. A culture that is ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and rooted in doing the right thing.
This position reports to the Commercial Director, Vaccines Specialty Care.
Primary Responsibilities
- Demonstrate strong matrix leadership and foster an environment of proactive communication and alignment within Vaccines Specialty Care cross-functional team and across commercial and medical brand teams
- Lead execution of tactics within operational plan working with key internal cross functional stakeholders and external partners
- Manage projects supported by vendors (e.g. consultants, creative/media/communications agencies) to ensure high-quality deliverables aligned with strategic objectives, timelines, and budget
- Develop a deep understanding of the treatment goals and patient journeys across specialties of focus; identify information gaps and lead insight generation projects (e.g. advisory boards and market research) to refine and validate strategy, barriers and opportunities, and innovative tactical ideas
- Work closely with training partners to lead the development and implementation of KAM training to ensure alignment on brand positioning, strategy, customer segmentation and messaging to achieve brand objectives
- Provide ongoing analysis and identification of market dynamics that have potential to impact business and contribute to opportunity or mitigation planning and implementation
- Manage A&P; budget to ensure annual spend is tracked and on target
- Support internal team in building and delivering regular brand business/performance reviews to internal leadership and stakeholders
- Collaborate internally across brands and BU to share best practices to optimize brand and organizational success
- Demonstrate a strong understanding and application of GSK code/values
- Be a key contributor to a performance-driven environment by bringing a positive mindset and commitment to hold self and others accountable for delivering on cross-functional objectives
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree completed
- Must have 2-5 years of experience working in the pharmaceutical industry with Marketing experience
- Excellent communication and engagement skills (virtual and live)
- Ability to clearly articulate complex content to management, peers, and customers both in individual conversation and group presentation levels
- Strong organizational skills and ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects requiring prioritization and cross-functional input
- Strength in challenging both self, peers and status quo
- Able to build strong rapport and trust with colleagues and demonstrates a willingness to raise issues and potential challenges with the intent of quickly finding solutions
- Able to work in ambiguity and in an external landscape where existing precedent may not provide guidance
- Able to effectively work and thrive in a cross functional team-based environment
- Able to quickly move insights to strategic and tactical implementation
Preferred Qualifications :
- Marketing experience in Cardiology, Endocrinology, or Nephrology is preferred
- Experience in commercial team implementing key account management approach is an asset
- Strong working knowledge and demonstrated ability to develop and implement tactics use in hospitals, accounts, and/or health systems
WHY GSK?:
GSK’s portfolio spans three product areas: vaccines, specialty and general medicines and our focus is to deliver better and faster for patients globally. Our unrivalled vaccine portfolio targets infectious diseases at every stage of life,
helping to reduce the burden of disease for hundreds of millions of people. GSK has exceptional capabilities in vaccine science and technologies, including adjuvant/protein and mRNA. In specialty medicines, we are at the forefront of HIV prevention and treatment, and we are building our presence in key therapeutic areas such as oncology and immuno-inflammation. General medicines include our inhaled medicines for asthma and COPD, antibiotics and medicines for skin diseases.
By 2031, we aim to deliver more than £33 billion in annual sales – a step-change in performance and growth which will significantly increase the positive impact we can have on the health of billions of patients around the world. And we’re confident in our future.
Our pipeline of 21 vaccines and 43 medicines includes many with potential to be first or best-in-class opportunities for patients.
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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).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
GSK is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals to apply to our career opportunities. GSK is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at ***************@gsk.com. Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.
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