Professional Relations Manager, Specialty Vaccines

GSK is looking to hire a Professional Relations Manager Vaccines Specialty to join our Vaccines KAM Leadership Team (VKLT). This role is hybrid with a mix of remote work and on-site collaboration at our Canadian offices and across the territory. This is a key commercial leadership role responsible for representing GSKs expanding vaccines portfolio within the CVRM/IMID and Canadian healthcare landscape and acting as a strategic partner across Medical Marketing Sales and CGA-MA functions to accelerate national advocacy and project initiatives.

In this role you will be responsible for developing and executing strategic engagement plans with External Experts (EEs) driving advocacy efforts and collaborating across cross-functional teams to ensure GSKs portfolio objectives are connected to national and regional healthcare priorities. You will work closely with Medical Marketing and Patient Affairs to support commercial and medical strategies providing insights and recommendations to guide business planning and patient-focused initiatives. The PRM is responsible for maintaining strong relationships with EEs regionally and nationally and for engaging them in advocacy efforts and project-based partnerships.

How We Work

As a Professional Relations Manager you will work in a collaborative and dynamic environment that supports your professional growth by providing:

• Opportunities to lead a high-performing sales team in the execution of regional business strategies

• Cross-functional collaboration with Marketing Medical and GAMA teams to drive portfolio and advocacy success

• Exposure to external expert engagement patient advocacy and clinical insights at a national and international level
  

Role Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the role will include:

• Provide strategic and operational guidance and feedback to commercial leadership contributing to strategic business plans and operational plans as well as commercial and medical tactics

• In collaboration with Medical liaise with external subject matter experts in specialty and vaccines-related diseases (including patient management & guidelines)

• Engage Tier 1 EEs as primary point of contact for field-level clinical insights commercial advice-seeking and consultancy work and function in a consultative way to medical as required to support medical strategies (this role is distinct and separate but complementary to sales force)

• Provide marketing medical and GAMA with recommendations on EEs for various strategic projects such as reimbursement advocacy patient advocacy group collaborations medical education programs clinical development programs global EE program representation (e.g. globally led steering committees)

• Attend and represent GSK Canada at key national and international congresses to maintain currency on relationship and advocacy building

• Work collaboratively with Marketing & Medical to lead or consult closely on objectives for commercial advisory boards or consultancies seeking advice

• In collaboration with Medical and Patient Affairs activate Patient Advocacy Groups driving awareness advocacy and demand
  

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelors degree in business life sciences or related field

• Proven track record in specialties sales

• Strong understanding of the national and regional therapeutic area landscapes with existing relationships

• Strong understanding of the Canadian healthcare landscape

• Strong knowledge of specialty therapeutic areas (recent Canadian cardiology endocrinology and nephrology experience) within the defined territory (minimum 5 years)

• Excellent leadership cross-functional collaboration communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to analyze data and make data-driven decisions

• Excellent knowledge of regulatory and compliance guidelines from the Canadian pharmaceutical industry

• Valid drivers license

• Ability to travel domestically as required
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree/MBA

• Expert knowledge of the vaccines and/or specialty markets

• Strong working knowledge and proven performance in program account and health systems-based markets/landscapes

• Proven ability to engage effectively with both internal and external stakeholders

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Demonstrated teamwork and leadership excellence

*** This position requires the employee to drive routinely on Company business and allows for the provision of a company leased vehicle. However to be eligible for this position and a company vehicle GSK will need to obtain acceptable results from a license verification inquiry and drivers abstract review against its safe driver program requirements ***

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 were 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.

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