Meetings Centre of Excellence Manager
Job Summary
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We are looking for an experienced and strategic Meetings Centre of Excellence (CoE) Manager to lead the UK approach to Healthcare Professional Engagement (HCPE) through meetings and external engagements.
External expert engagement has never been more important. This role plays a critical part in ensuring we design and deliver compliant highquality and customercentric engagement solutions aligned to evolving HCP preferences and business priorities in order to build advocacy and maximise impact.
The role reports directly into the UK Head of Performance Strategy & Operations and requires close partnership with Commercial and Medical teams as well as key enabling functions including Digital & Tech Business Insights Capabilities and Global/Regional stakeholders.
We create a place where people can grow be their best be safe and feel welcome valued and included. We offer a competitive salary an annual bonus based on company performance healthcare and wellbeing programmes pension plan membership and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
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In this role you will
Lead the Meetings Centre of Excellence (CoE) team and deliver the overall strategy ensuring alignment with PS&O vision UK Commercial priorities and enterprise objectives through strong crossfunctional and abovecountry partnerships.
Drive the evolution of HCP/HCO meeting delivery by continuously improving how meetings are planned delivered and evaluated with a focus on efficiency consistency scalability and digitally enabled engagement.
Enhance Meetings CoE processes using insights feedback and performance data to simplify optimise and futureproof ways of working supporting more sustainable and effective engagement models.
Coordinate resources and ensure alignment across External Engagements Materials and Rebate processes while overseeing thirdparty partners including risk management and collaboration with Procurement on contracting and negotiations.
Establish and lead crossfunctional networks to understand process utilisation identify pain points and drive improvements to the endtoend experience.
Develop and maintain governance frameworks including KPI setting and tracking to drive transparency performance and ROI while adopting a datadriven continuous improvement mindset to optimise customer and business outcomes.
Why you
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Bachelors degree or equivalent experience with a strong background in HCPE strategy and execution
Proven experience leading and developing high performing teams
Strong track record of driving excellence in execution and moving complex initiatives forward
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without authority across Commercial Medical and enabling functions
Strong analytical capability with experience using data and insight to inform decisions and drive improvement
Robust knowledge of the ABPI Code and compliant working practices
Demonstrable project and change management experience ideally within complex or matrixed environments
Closing Date for Applications 19h of May 2026 (COB)
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As a focused biopharma company we discover develop and deliver medicines and vaccines to create value for patients and shareholders. We are on track to make a positive impact on the health of2.5 billion people by the end of the R&D we combine the science of the immune system with advanced technologies todevelop new medicines and vaccines that can help transform peoples lives. We focus on four areas respiratory immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases where we have the strongest expertise and significant patient need remains. By developing differentiated medicines and vaccines across these areas we can deliver patient benefit at scale and generate value for people health systems shareholders and society.
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