Marketing Director - Oncology
Marketing Director - Oncology
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Marketing Director - Oncology
Location GSK HQ London
GSK has bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031 we aim to deliver 38 billion in annual sales building from existing strong performance momentum which will significantly increase the positive impact we can have on the health of billions of patients around the world. Our Ahead Together strategy means intervening early to prevent and change the course of disease helping to protect people and support healthcare systems. Our portfolio is made up of vaccines specialty medicines and general medicines. These are the three different types of products we create to prevent and treat disease many with the potential to be first-or best-in-class.
The Marketing Director Oncology will spearhead the marketing strategy and execution to drive the growth of the business across oncology assets. This position calls for a dynamic leader who can blend strategic vision with operational excellence to implement impactful marketing initiatives and ensure best practice sharing across brands.
The role will manage a team of marketers to best support the execution for the in-line brands and prepare world-class launches for lifecycle opportunities. Additionally this position involves leading a cross-functional team collaborating with partnering functions to ensure focus and alignment on key priorities.
This role is an integral part of the Oncology Leadership Team contributing significantly to the development and implementation of the UK Oncology Commercial Strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership:Implement comprehensive marketing strategies for the oncology brands collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive strategy execution.
- Operational Excellence:Champion execution excellence within the oncology team with successful marketing plans implementation optimised marketing budget management and implementation of performance metrics to measure effectiveness.
- Performance Tracking:Implement and oversee KPIs to measure the effectiveness of marketing activities and adjust strategies as needed.
- Data and Insight:Ensure that marketing strategies are anchored on foundational insights and spearhead the KPI shaping and monitoring across assets to ensure clear execution reporting and identify growth levers.
- Innovation and Improvement:Encourage innovation within the team promoting continuous improvement and adoption of best practices.
- Team Leadership:Lead mentor and develop the Oncology marketing team fostering a high-performance culture and promoting a collaborative work environment. Lead the development and delivery of a people plan to ensure the team has the right capabilities for today and the future.
- Collaboration:Ensure collaboration with Global and cross-functional partners (e.g. Medical Communication and Government Affairs Supply Chain Customer Insights regulatory) to execute strategy.
- Compliance and Governance:Ensure all marketing activities comply with GSKs policies industry regulations and ethical standards.
- Risk Management:Identify risks across the Oncology portfolio and execute plans to mitigate them.
Why you
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Business and / or life science bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Considerable commercial pharmaceutical experience with a strong marketing background and a good understanding of UK healthcare market.
- Good understanding of financial planning (ideally previous P&L responsibility)
- Solid understanding of the responsibilities of x-functional partners (e.g. Sales Marketing Medical Market Access HVA etc) and how they contribute to an overall Launch Plan.
- Proven experience in successfully leading and empowering high-performing teams to drive exceptional results and deliver on strategic objectives.
- Influences effectively both horizontally and vertically across multiple stakeholders in a matrix environment to represent global commercial
- Strong interpersonal communications and negotiation skills with a wide range of audiences.
- Understanding of the Pharma industry regulations (ABPI)
- Proven ability to influence change at the enterprise level.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- Postgraduate degree in Business Life Sciences or a related field is preferred or equivalent professional experience demonstrating a strong level of expertise and achievement.
- Prior experience in Oncology marketing including developing and implementing strategic campaigns is highly preferred for this role.
- An exceptional collaborator who can unify a large network of teams and stakeholders across functions and countries to achieve positive business outcomes.
- Drives clarity of accountability and decision rights.
- Always operates with ambition for patients.
CLOSING DATE For APPLICATIONS 23rd July 2025 (EOD)
Please take a copy of the Job Description as this will not be available post closure of the applying for this role please use the cover letter of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
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 its 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.
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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