Finance Director

Posted 4 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Healthtech • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
The Role
Serve as strategic finance partner for US Commercial Finance, leading gross-to-net strategy, reporting, forecasting and decision support. Translate pricing, contracting, policy and market shifts into financial scenarios and executive recommendations. Drive governance, automation, analytics, team development, and stakeholder alignment to improve net-sales performance and controls.
Summary Generated by Built In

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.
 

Reporting to the Sr. Finance Director, Head of Gross to Net, this role serves as a strategic finance partner to US Commercial Finance teams, the US CFO and Market Access leaders. The position provides decision support to the Contract Review Board and Strategic Pricing Committee, translating pricing, contracting, policy, and market dynamics into clear financial implications and recommendations.

As a key member of US Commercial Finance, the role leads gross-to-net analysis, reporting, and forecasting to improve performance, strengthen controls, and support business unit objectives. It connects external shifts and internal priorities to actionable insight that informs planning, trade-off decisions, and execution across a complex matrix.

The role requires strong business judgment, executive-level communication, and the ability to simplify complex issues into clear decision support for senior leadership while operating effectively across a sophisticated matrixed environment.

Why GSK? 

GSK’s portfolio spans three product areas: vaccines, specialty and general medicines and our focus is to deliver better and faster for patients globally. Our unrivalled vaccine portfolio targets infectious diseases at every stage of life, helping to reduce the burden of disease for hundreds of millions of people. GSK has exceptional capabilities in vaccine science and technologies, including adjuvant/protein and mRNA. In specialty medicines, we are at the forefront of HIV prevention and treatment, and we are building our presence in key therapeutic areas such as oncology and immuno-inflammation. General medicines include our inhaled medicines for asthma and COPD, antibiotics and medicines for skin diseases.

opportunities for patient.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the gross-to-net strategy team and process for finance for the US portfolio - integrating pricing, contracting, and rebate dynamics into a clear enterprise view of net sales performance, opportunities and risk

  • Guide team to drive enterprise contract and pricing analysis and recommendation through rigorous assessment of business cases, disciplined governance, and cross-functional alignment

  • Understand US policy, market access, payer, provider, and competitive shifts with our internal matrix stakeholders; translate external signals into financial implications, scenarios, and clear recommendations

  • Frame complex GTN and portfolio issues and opportunities into clear trade-offs, risks, and options that accelerate senior leadership decision making

  • Leverage automation and appropriate AI/agentic agents, simplify processes and standardize output to optimize decision frameworks at scale that improve speed, stakeholder clarity and enterprise impact.

  • Anticipate future information needs and evolve finance capabilities, analytics, and decision support to meet a changing US market environment

  • Partner proactively across the matrix to shape business plans and long-range forecasts, clarify decision rights, and align stakeholders on outcomes

  • Lead and coach a high-performing team by coaching, upskilling, and raising capability to deliver greater business impact and stronger judgment across priorities

  • Maintain strong financial governance and compliance while adapting quickly to evolving business needs and information requirements

Why You? 

Basic Qualifications: 

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

  • BS/BA and 8+ years of relevant pharmaceutical finance, market access, pricing, contracting, or analytics experience

  • Proven finance leadership with ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to influence across a matrix

  • Experience with gross-to-net and US market access, including policy, legislative, payer, provider, and competitive dynamics

  • Strategic and analytical capability, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, and decision-oriented problem solving

  • Ability to translate analysis into clear, executive-ready recommendations that drive action

  • Understanding of accounting standards, financial controls, and governance

  • Demonstrated ability to simplify processes, standardize outputs, and improve decision support at scale

  • Experience developing others through feedback, stretch work, and knowledge sharing

  • Collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and align stakeholders on outcomes

  • Proven ability to prioritize effectively, adapt to change, and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications: 

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

  • MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced finance or business qualification

  • Deep experience navigating payer, provider, legislative, and market access dynamics to inform strategy and business decisions and understanding of specialty trade channels, pricing, reimbursement, and market access strategy

  • Ability to strengthen team analytics, decision frameworks, and stakeholder partnership in pricing and contracting environments

  • Deep knowledge of US market access business models and customer dynamics, including PBMs, health plans, providers, pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and government pricing

  • Experience applying advanced analytics and scenario thinking to support complex commercial and financial decisions

  • Track record of raising team capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement

#LI-GSK

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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 we’re 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.

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Skills Required

  • BS/BA and 8+ years of pharmaceutical finance, market access, pricing, contracting, or analytics experience
  • Proven finance leadership with ownership, sound judgment, and ability to influence across a matrix
  • Experience with gross-to-net and US market access, including policy, legislative, payer, provider, and competitive dynamics
  • Strategic and analytical capability, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, and decision-oriented problem solving
  • Ability to translate analysis into clear, executive-ready recommendations that drive action
  • Understanding of accounting standards, financial controls, and governance
  • Demonstrated ability to simplify processes, standardize outputs, and improve decision support at scale
  • Experience developing others through feedback, stretch work, and knowledge sharing
  • Collaboration and communication skills, with ability to build trust and align stakeholders on outcomes
  • Proven ability to prioritize effectively, adapt to change, and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines
  • MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced finance or business qualification
  • Deep experience navigating payer, provider, legislative, and market access dynamics and specialty trade channels
  • Ability to strengthen team analytics, decision frameworks, and stakeholder partnership in pricing and contracting environments
  • Deep knowledge of US market access business models and customer dynamics (PBMs, health plans, providers, pharmacies, hospitals, government pricing)
  • Experience applying advanced analytics and scenario thinking to support complex commercial and financial decisions
  • Track record of raising team capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement

GSK Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GSK and has not been reviewed or approved by GSK.

  • Strong & Reliable Incentives Compensation is characterized as including strong salary and perks, with annual bonuses and long-term incentives contributing materially to total rewards. Recognition and performance-linked rewards are described as a consistent component of the package.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is presented as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and mental health benefits. The breadth of coverage is repeatedly framed as a standout element of the overall rewards experience.
  • Retirement Support Retirement offerings are described as robust, anchored by a 401(k) plan and additional savings vehicles such as employee stock purchase programs. Employer contributions and savings options are portrayed as meaningful supports for long-term financial security.

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The Company
HQ: Brentford
105,615 Employees
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

A science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: to help people do more, feel better, live longer. We have three global businesses that research, develop and manufacture innovative pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products. We aim to bring differentiated, high-quality and needed healthcare products to as many people as possible, with our three global businesses, scientific and technical know-how and talented people.

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