The Business Intelligence Director, GSK Canada is responsible for leading a team to understand “what is happening with our products today”.   As the Director, you will lead and develop a best in industry advanced analytics team to analyze product & market trends, commercial execution and development of deep insights to identify brand opportunities and risks. 

The BI Director will align efforts across 4 Business Units to anticipate and address business questions for marketed and pipeline products.  The BI Director will be accountable for partnering with multidisciplinary teams (Finance, Sales, Marketing and Medical, etc.) to analyze key issues and translate outputs from analyses into actionable solutions.  The successful candidate will be a self-starter, capable of proactively identifying potential applications of analytics and proposing solutions, rather than always reacting to business requests. 

The BI Director will need understand the market fundamentals, competitive environment, and analytic techniques to provide direction to the analytics team and to discuss the findings with business partners to enable data driven decision making. The Director will lead a Team of 17 professionals with 7 direct reports. The areas of focus are Brand Forecasting, Market Research, Salesforce Effectiveness, Salesforce Incentive and Analytical Strategy to support data driven decision making. The role will report to the Head of Business Excellence

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Provides thought leadership in framing the business issue (problem statement) and objectives in a way that can be translated into analytical plans to generate actionable insights
• Understand complex trends in the Canadian market through various Insights & Analytics (I&A) outputs and integrating marketing, sales & medical inputs to effectively lead the development of hypotheses and investigations the team will undertake
• Responsible for promoting data-driven decision-making in our commercial organization by delivering clear data and analytic stories and ensuring the opportunities and risk are well understood
• Builds and evolves analytic capability within the team and across Business Partners.
• Play a key role interacting with Senior Leaders across the organization; lead with agility to effectively deploy team efforts
• Foster strong, collaborative partnerships with other leaders in Canada and the Global Data and Analytics organizations to ensure solutions are aligned
• Manage the operating budget and external partner relationships
• Lead and drive performance with integrity, being a role model for team and peers

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10 plus years of pharmaceutical experience to include Analytics
• Extensive experience creating high performing teams with a performance culture
• Significant Project Management Experience
• Demonstrable Leadership Experience

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA or master’s degree in marketing or related disciplines
• Proven leadership experience organizing, managing, and motivating teams and external partners to perform
• Experience across Pharmaceutical Therapy areas including Vaccines and Oncology
• Practical experience within pharmaceutical commercialization across channels
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity to drive analyses
• Ability to influence across various levels and within various functions
• Very strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal skills and ability to work in a time and resource constrained environment
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal), with the ability to communicate and present effectively to groups and senior leaders

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritization, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organizational transformation.
• Building a resilient organization.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organization and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

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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.

GSK is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.  We welcome applications from all qualified individuals to apply to our career opportunities. GSK is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at canada-recruitment@gsk.com.  Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.

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