Competitive Intelligence Director, Vaccines

Locations include GSK HQ in London, USA Philadelphia/ Upper Providence and Wavre in Belgium.

GSK has bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £38 billion in annual sales – building from existing strong performance momentum which will significantly increase the positive impact we can have on the health of billions of patients around the world. Our Ahead Together strategy means intervening early to prevent and change the course of disease, helping to protect people and support healthcare systems.

We are seeking a deeply curious, strategic thinker to join our Global Vaccines Competitive Intelligence team. In this role, you will focus on key competitors and cross-cutting projects to build a comprehensive understanding of competitor strategies and market level opportunities. You will act as an objective strategic advisor based on your deep expertise in current and future competitive drivers in the pharmaceutical market. The primary focus is on vaccines, and you must understand how vaccines fit into overall business and corporate strategy, bringing an external market perspective that can help shape our portfolio and strategies.

This is a high visibility role, with an opportunity to connect with a broad array of internal stakeholders and senior leadership. It is imperative to have excellent communication skills (written, verbal), leadership presence and ability to foster relationships in a matrixed organization. You will glean meaningful insights from a multitude of sources, connect the dots and generate a big picture market view. Additionally, you must stay on top of cross-cutting industry trends to identify topics that CI should further explore that may lead to big opportunities or mitigation of threats.

The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter, passionate to better understand the external market environment. You must be able to execute independently but also work in collaboration with many teams. You will need to be comfortable with, and appropriately able to manage, ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to deliver forward-looking analysis and recommendations that can have a tangible impact.

• Partner – You will partner with a broad array of stakeholders from numerous functions, bringing objective, independent thinking, and be able to assess and communicate the relevance of CI insights to each team and leadership.
• Analysis – Collect and synthesize internal and external data with expert use of a wide range of information sources to derive proactive, timely and actionable competitive insight. Analyze complex problems and situations to anticipate and develop potential scenarios. Design and lead strategic initiatives based on a thorough understanding of internal and external business issues, using robust CI sources and innovative methodologies as needed.
• Recommendations – Use expertise on current and future competitive drivers in the marketplace to make critical recommendations from your analysis, relating impact on our ability to be competitive. Proactively propose new or further areas of analysis that are relevant to our business strategies.
• Rapid Key Event Coverage – Shape and direct coverage of key events relevant for your area, ensuring effective integration, consolidation and rapid communication of analyses and insights. Help develop systems/processes that can enable fast response to unplanned/ad hoc analysis.
• CI Capabilities – Working with the Head of Competitive Intelligence, contribute to and help shape evolution of the team to develop best-in-class CI capabilities, and increase the value of CI to GSK.
• Indirect Team – Manage workflow and capabilities of the broader resource structure supporting the CI team. Lead and coach these resources on high, focused performance, optimizing the team to deliver maximum value.
• External Research - Engage third party agencies as appropriate and ensure all CI research activities are conducted within appropriate GSK code of conduct, compliance and ethical business practices.

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

• Bachelor's degree in scientific discipline or a closely related field, or equivalent experience.
• Considerable experience in the pharmaceutical industry, or strategic consulting or financial institutions related to the pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven and functional experience in providing actionable intelligence and insights.
• Strong understanding of medicine/vaccine development and commercialization process, including activities from preclinical through marketing of a product, and business knowledge of pharmaceutical/vaccine companies and their business practices.
• Excellent ability to condense significant amounts of complex information into sharp, succinct and impactful deliverables.
• Experienced in matrix environment with ability to build strong relationships and drive impact across a range of functions, seniority, and geographical locations.
• Proven ability to challenge, influence and support senior stakeholders.

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

• Advanced education such as a Ph.D. in a scientific discipline, or an MBA.
• Deep experience in multiple vaccines indications that can be applied to competitive intelligence is highly preferred.
• Previous experience working in commercial functions (global/regional, marketing, sales, etc).
• Track record of end-to-end project delivery.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS – 3rd June 2025 (EOD)

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.

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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