Do you have a passion for insight led decision making? Can you partner with commercial therapy teams and advise them on performance? Are you a curious self-starter capable of rapidly building a network of strong relationships?

If so, a great opportunity awaits you.  The business insights team at GSK will provide you a unique platform for success and is industry leading in both the UK and across the wider region.  With bespoke specialities in data science, market research and reporting your role will be to harness these resources to deliver world class insights.  In recent times the team has grown in size, capability and performance and is critical to driving UK performance.

This newly created role represents a fantastic opportunity for you to join this team and become a subject matter expert with some of our leading Oncology products. You will operate as an Associate Partner and help drive the commercial strategy for our oncology brands.  You will look for opportunities, resolve challenges and challenge the business ensuring each brands delivers optimal returns to the business. You will use your experience to generate insight to support decision making, contributing to the success of the Oncology business unit.

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.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

In this role you will

• Partner with the business to make the best, informed, strategic and tactical decisions by using your own analytical skill and commercial judgment or drawing on expert resources in the Business Insights team
• Review business performance, work to bring a clear view of critical indicators and use the results to raise questions and support or challenge strategy with the Oncology team
• Proactively analyse relevant data (including activity, sales, market research, etc) to drive recommendations for business actions to improve performance
• Work closely with data science, market research and reporting to deliver leading solutions for your stakeholders
• Input/lead forecasting for each cycle and the annual brand planning process (in 3-way team alongside Finance Partner, led by Brand Manager)
• Advise the business through Sales Force Incentive scheme design & target setting (alongside Sales Force Incentive Manager)

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Degree or equivalent in life sciences, economics, finance or alternative analytical subject
• Analytical or insight skills and experience using analysis to solve business problems
• Excellent teamworking skills, experience of working in cross functional teams/matrix teams
• Ability to effectively visualise & present data for storytelling
• Proficient in excel and/or other analytical software as well as Microsoft office
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills with the experience of turning insight into recommendations for senior stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Commercial experience (marketing, sales, market access)
• Experience with using and developing reports in a modern BI system (e.g. Qlik, PowerBI, Tableau)
• Demonstrated prior analytical capabilities (e.g., segmentation and targeting)
• An understanding of / experience with sales forecasting
• Knowledge of the NHS and UK healthcare system; knowledge of IQVIA, NHS data sets (e.g., hospital pharmacy audit, primary care prescription data)
• Awareness/use of open NHS data provided through NHS digital (e.g., hospital episode statics)

Closing Date for Applications – 14th August (COB)

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When 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, it’s 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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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