Senior Director, Business Strategy and Operations

Are you excited by the opportunity to operate at the heart of GSKs UK Commercial organisation Are you passionate about leading people driving innovation and embedding a highperformance culture

As Senior Director Business Strategy & Operationsfor UK Commercial you will play a critical highly visible role in shaping the future of GSK UK. You will lead a diverse highimpact organisation across performance strategy insights capabilities and operations with accountability for driving excellence and delivering against our ambitions for growth & delivering our exciting new launches. You will be a driving digital transformation including AI acceleration to unlock enhanced impact and efficiencies across the organisation in line with core operations and processes.

This role partners directly with the UK Commercial General Manager and UKLT. You will help steer the UK business through datadriven insights operational excellence and strategic clarityensuring the organisation is aligned performing and accelerating delivery against our objectives.

Our Mission & Vision

Mission:
- To unleash excellence and drive growth across the UK organisationelevating performance accelerating strategic progress and enabling teams to operate at their very best

Vision:
- To be proactive performance enhancersconstantly hunting opportunities tomake the boat go faster.
- We unlock insights modernise operations build capability and create the conditions for highperformance teams to win.

Core Areas of Leadership & Focus

You will lead the UK Commercial organisation in the following areas of focus:

• Driving digital transformation including AI acceleration to enhance effectiveness & efficiencies across all core areas of focus

• Enhancing our infield competitiveness through all aspects of Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) and Sales Force Incentives (SFI) including maximising effectiveness in our high impact channels such as HCP Meetings

• Supporting customerfacing teams with core platforms and processes (Veeva NBA etc.) whilst innovating to ensure future fitness

• Driving enterprisewide capability uplift across commercial analytical and execution excellence

• Embedding global data analytics and market research into UK strategic and operational needs

• Driving a datadriven mindset and enabling predictive diagnostic and AIenhanced insight generation

• Leading the UK Performance Management Process ensuring a strong transparent performance culture

• Ownership of the UK Commercial Governance Framework

• Ensuring safe compliant and highquality commercial operations

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Chief of Staff to the UK Leadership Team

You will act as a strategic integrator and orchestrator for the UKLT:

• Strategic thought partnering for the UK GM and UKLT to identify organisational wide opportunities to enhance UK performance

• Coordinate monthly UKLT meetings setting agendas and facilitating effective discussion

• Lead Monthly Performance Review (MPR) preparations with Region

• Partner across the UKLT to ensure decisions are followed through to impact

• Lead preparation for senior leader country visits working closely with global/regional Chiefs of Staff

• Driving continuous improvement in operating rhythms routines and performance discussions

This component requires exceptional organisational influence strategic intuition and an ability to create clarity and alignment across senior stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree

• Senior commercial experience within the pharmaceutical industry

• Demonstrated success leading commercial or operational teams

• Proven ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders

• Experience working crossfunctionally

• Experience in omnichannel and digital transformation

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated problemsolving capability

• Strong data acumen and proficiency with platforms (IQVIA PowerBI Azure)

• Experience with transformation & change management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across local regional and/or global pharmaceutical roles

• Global/Regional exposure

• MBA or equivalent strategic/leadership qualification

Overall Impact

This role is a unique opportunity to shape the performance strategy and operating rhythm of one of GSKs most important markets. You will build the conditions for organisational successstrengthening insights capabilities operations governance and strategic claritywhile empowering teams to deliver excellence and growth.

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.

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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