Head of Global Demand Excellence

GSK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global biopharma company is seeking a Head of Global Demand Excellence to lead the strategy and roadmap for Demand planning. This leadership role focuses on enhancing capabilities and operational excellence in demand planning and collaborating with various stakeholders. Required qualifications include strong leadership experience, expertise in digital forecasting solutions, and effective communication skills. This role offers full-time employment based in the United Kingdom.

Qualifications

• Strong people leadership experience in Demand Planning & Consensus Forecasting.
• Subject matter expertise in Demand Forecasting and process design.
• Experience leading multi-functional teams within a matrix environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic and operational initiatives for industry leadership.
• Build Demand Planning capability across GSK.
• Represent Demand in Global S&OP meetings.

Skills

People leadership experience in Demand Planning

Expertise in digital forecasting solutions

Senior stakeholder management skills

Organizational and process design skills

Effective communication skills

Tools

OMP S4 Hana

AI Forecasting solutions

Job description

Head of Global Demand Excellence

The posting period will end on the 30th of September in 2025

Job Purpose

The Head of Demand Excellence is a key leadership role responsible for defining the vision strategy and roadmap for the Demand CofE. This role will lead the evolution of the Demand planning function delivering new and enhanced capabilities and operational excellence driving GSK to be an industry leader. By embracing and enhancing data digital and analytical capabilities combined with simplification and standardizing ways of working the Head of Demand Excellence will maximize business performance in the short and long term.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver a range of strategic and operational initiatives to ensure GSKs leadership in the industry
• Build and evolve Demand Planning capability across GSK
• Represent Demand in various Global S&OP meetings collaborating with Supply Chain Finance and Commercial colleagues to provide valuable insights for optimal decisions
• Lead a matrix team including remote and cross-time zone direct reports to achieve business objectives in line with GSK values and purpose
• Implement processes and governance standards that focus on doing the right thing while maximizing business benefits and continuous improvement through KPI oversight and process adherence

Basic Qualifications

• Strong people leadership experience in Demand Planning & Consensus Forecasting or S&OP with expertise in deploying digital and automated forecasting solutions
• Subject matter expertise in Demand Forecasting with knowledge of process design lean sigma and advanced planning solutions including OMP S4 Hana and AI Forecasting solutions
• Proven experience in organizational and process design simplification standardization improvement and roll‑out across a global organization
• Experience leading multi‑functional teams within a matrix environment
• Large‑scale business transformation and change leadership experience
• Senior stakeholder management skills and experience engaging business customers

Other Job-Related Skills / Background

• Effective communication and partnership with senior management
• Ability to advocate and influence at all levels including VP level and above
• Networking skills both internally and externally
• Collaborative work within the wider End to End (E2E) CofE team and other partners within GSK
• Ability to operate across various levels within the organization from detailed hands‑on operators to senior management
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• LI-GSK

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 were 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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Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1