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About the Role
The R&D Strategy team identifies and recommends key questions to evolve GSK’s R&D strategy, executes R&D-wide strategy projects, and partners with R&D leadership. This role will work on core R&D strategy questions, collaborating with project leads and senior leaders, engaging directly with the R&D Leadership Team and leading multi-disciplinary matrix teams. The team serves as a feeder for key talent within GSK, offering exposure to various business areas and senior leaders, with numerous progression opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Identify and provide recommendations on key questions informing the evolution of GSK’s R&D strategy.
- Execute R&D-wide strategy projects aligned with R&D priorities.
- Serve as a partner to R&D leadership to develop strategies and execute initiatives.
- Determine current performance, set ambition, and propose courses of action by accessing and interpreting internal and external data.
- Collaborate with strategy project leads and senior leaders across GSK.
- Engage directly with the R&D Leadership Team and various groups across R&D.
- Lead multi-disciplinary matrix teams where necessary.
Requirements
- Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or other relevant areas (PhD, MBA or other post-graduate degrees preferred).
- Strategy consulting experience from a top-tier strategy consulting firm, or similar experience.
- Ability to think strategically at a global level and dive deep into operational issues.
- Proven capability to manage ambiguity and develop clear, evidence-based strategies from complex datasets.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and compellingly.
- Solid analytical skills and the ability to manipulate complex data, propose and test hypotheses, and challenge assumptions.
- Rigorous project management skills.
- Ability to engage senior stakeholders with a balanced mix of intellectual rigor and emotional intelligence.
- R&D experience, combined with intellectual curiosity and demonstrated learning agility.
- Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgment to balance pace, rigor and risk.
- Effective management of individual and team performance.
- Commitment to delivering high-quality results, overcoming challenges, and focusing on what matters.
- Experience implementing and leading change initiatives.
- Commitment to sustaining energy and well-being, building team resilience.
- Continuous learning mindset, focus on building skills and sharing knowledge both internally and externally.
- Ability to translate strategy into action through clear narratives, motivation, objective setting, and delegation.
- Strong relationship building and collaboration skills, with the ability to manage trusted internal and external stakeholders.
- Commercial and financial acumen, including budgeting and forecasting experience.
Skills
- Analytical Thinking
- Brand Strategy Planning
- Business Insights
- Business Strategy Consulting
- Business Transformation
- Data Analysis
- Data Interpretations
- Digital Fluency
- Executive Communications
- Financial Acumen
- Influencing Skills
- Innovation
- Life Science
- Market Shaping
- Operational Excellence
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- R&D Strategy
- Risk Management
- Shareholder Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Storytelling
- Strategic Consulting
- Strategic Delivery
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working model
- On-site
- Remote work
Experience Level
- Director
Education Level
- Degree level in Life Sciences, Business, or other relevant areas
- PhD
- MBA
- Other post-graduate degrees
About the Company
- 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.
- We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.