Global Strategic Insights Director

GSK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global biopharma company is seeking a Global Strategic Insights Director to lead the Hepatology Portfolio. The role involves generating actionable insights, managing multiple workstreams, and developing robust forecasting models. Candidates need a BA/BS degree and significant pharmaceutical experience. This role offers a chance to significantly impact the company's strategic direction and requires strong analytical skills and a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• In-depth pharmaceutical industry experience is required.
• Significant experience conducting qualitative and quantitative market research.
• Strong business acumen and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple workstreams and exert influence within cross-functional teams.
• Develop actionable insights to support global strategy and investment decisions.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure excellence in insight generation execution.

Skills

Entrepreneurial spirit

Broad pharma expertise

Insight generation

Analytical methodologies

Commercial insights

Forecasting expertise

Education

BA/BS Degree

MBA, MS, or MA in business or marketing science

Job description

Global Strategic Insights Director

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.

GSK is seeking individual’s collaborative mindset to drive strategic insight generation that will define and shape Global Hepatology Strategy in MASH (Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis) & ALD (Alcoholic Liver Disease. Working across assets and lifecycle stages with Brand Insights Directors, Global Product Strategy and a wide, cross-functional group of partners.

In this role you will…

• Be a thought-partner and subject matter expert for - MASH/ALD / Hepatology teams
• Lead on insight generation to shape for some key disease areas in hepatology- MASH/ALD for business governance milestones, ensuring 100% adherence to market research compliance guidelines
• 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
• Take ownership of the forecast process and deliverables, ensuring the model's accuracy, development of robust assumptions, alignment with LOC inputs, and adherence to governance timelines.
• Prioritize and manage multiple workstreams to deliver actionable insights, leveraging market and competitive intelligence to inform and drive strategic decision-making. 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.

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
• In-depth pharmaceutical industry experience

• Significant commercial insights & analytics related experience

• Strong track record in 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
• Experienced in managing teams, fostering growth through mentorship, coaching, and continuous learning opportunities. 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 ability to influence senior commercial leadership
• Agility, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity

Closing Date for Applications: 19/11/2025 EOD

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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 purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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