Global Marketing Director, Oncology

Primary Location : United States, with a preference for candidates based in the Philadelphia area.

As a Global Marketing Director , you will translate our science into commercial success throughout the product lifecycle by ensuring you drive competitive product profiles and build long-term brand value through working in partnership with the cross functional medicines development team.

You will lead the development of insight-driven global product strategies and plans, deliver ambitious long-range forecasts, enable outstanding launches, and ensure excellent customer experience in partnership with co-create markets through creating omnichannel content.

In this role you’ll develop and stretch to be the best in the industry across key Global Strategy and Enterprise Leadership Capabilities. Within GSK’s Pharmaceuticals business, you are expected to generate long-term value for GSK and ultimately improve the lives of patients around the world. You will produce exquisite insight, develop clear, competitive global brand strategies and plans, enable outstanding launches, and focused implementations in partnership with co-create markets.

You will be responsible for :

Accountable to develop brand strategy and deliver launch / brand plan in accordance with Integrated Asset Plan (IAP) across customer segments including Patient, HCP and Payer, in partnership with key cross functional partners and LOCs enabling core LOCs to execute the strategy and achieve the agreed sales ambition.

Understand, value, and prioritize sources of differentiation by leveraging cross functional insights, elucidating implications of emerging data and competitive launches across cross functional teams and strategies

Develop strategic choices (positioning, segmentation, targeting, etc.) and promotional strategies for the asset

Partner with Insights to deliver Global Forecast aligned to strategy, generating recommended assumptions and strategic input

Elucidate required SG&A and commercial model to optimize asset performance in Global markets

Lead lifecycle management strategy to drive additional value for the asset, launch sequence strategy, optimizing approaches to market

Lead RFP / Pitch and agency selection for the brand’s Agency of Record (AOR). Onboard and then manage Agency of Record and key projects related to development of the global brand (customer journey, personas, brand visual identity, value proposition, messaging, and campaign development) in collaboration with co-creation markets and via MOC

Drive LOC engagement strategy and lead development and management of global commercial budget and input into LOC operational planning

Drive culture of trust, respect, transparency, and accountability

Managing corporate reputation & building trust

Build strong cross business unit / functional relationships, to maximize synergies and make sure that GSK has unified, coherent and trusted representation externally.

Shaping the external environment in-line with LOC strategy

Why You?

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor’s degree

5+ years of marketing experience in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically in oncology.

3+ years of experience in the US market or a Tier 1 market.

Requirement of 2 -3 days per week in the office.

Preferred Qualifications :

Senior marketing experience in the US or tier 1 market with multiple launch experiences.

Recent launch experience at global / regional or LOC level and experience working across global to local (or vice versa).

Led development of brand imagery, insights, segmentation, core campaigns as well as co-create experience.

Experience of leading medicines at different stages of their life cycle like early assets, work with R&D or consulting experience or late-stage assets.

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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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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