Director, Global Strategic Insights, Oncology

**Site Name**: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, GSK HQ, UK - London - New Oxford Street, Zug House
**Posted Date**: Apr 17 2025

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 Portfolio as Global Strategic Insights (GSI) Director, Oncology.

GSK is seeking a collaborative mindset to drive strategic insight generation that will define and shape Global Oncology Strategy for both inline and pipeline assets. Working across assets and lifecycle stages with Brand Insights Directors, Global Product Strategy and a wide, cross-functional group of partners you will:

- Be a thought-partner for Oncology teams
- Lead on insight generation to shape and drive commercial forecasts for some key disease areas in Oncology for business governance milestones, ensuring 100% adherence to market research compliance guidelines
- 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 Oncology’s strategic trajectory
- 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

This role will equip you with the opportunity to lead key activities to advance your career. These 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
- 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 your 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
- 7+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience
- 5+ years of commercial insights & analytics-related experience

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:_
- MBA, MS, or MA in business, marketing science, or science
- Substantive experience in oncology and or rare diseases
- Prior consulting or agency-side experience highly valued
- Successful matrix leadership. Experience working in a cross-functional capacity
- Preference will be attributed to applicants with both market research AND forecasting expertise
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior commercial leadership and confidently defend informed recommendations
- 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
- Ability to work effectively across a matrix environment and influence without formal authority
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior commercial leadership

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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 patient