Senior Director, Head of Global Strategic Insights – Oncology

GlaxoSmithKline; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Director to lead Global Strategic Insights in Oncology. This pivotal role involves shaping product strategy through insightful market research and collaboration across functions. You will manage a team, ensuring the integration of insights into commercial forecasts and strategic decisions. The position offers a unique opportunity to influence senior leadership and drive impactful recommendations that enhance patient outcomes. Join a forward-thinking company committed to innovation and excellence in the biopharma field.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Program

Career Development Opportunities

Flexible Working Hours

Health and Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in pharmaceuticals or biotech.
• 3+ years of experience in people management.
• Expertise in market research and commercial strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of market research professionals.
• Drive strategic insight generation for oncology products.
• Manage vendor relationships and ensure compliance.

Skills

Pharmaceutical Expertise

Market Research

Leadership

Strategic Insights

Commercial Strategy

Communication Skills

Education

BS/BA

Tools

Market Research Tools

Job description

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, UK – London – New Oxford Street
Posted Date: May 6 2025

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

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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.

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