NHS Strategy, Portfolio and Partnerships Senior Manager ( Market Access)

NHS Strategy, Portfolio and Partnerships Senior Manager (market access)

Field based - National

This is a territory role, meaning the successful candidate will be able to work remotely within the above territory but with some expectations of national travel and attendance to head office as required.

Are you ready to drive impactful collaborations that improve patient outcomes and support healthcare system evolution?

As the NHS Strategy, Portfolio and Partnerships Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping high-level engagement with national NHS bodies, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), and regional NHS entities across the UK.

Operating on a national and regional level, you will foster strategic partnerships to deliver tangible benefits for patients and the healthcare system.

You will play a pivotal role in enabling the NHS to prepare for and implement new patient pathways. Through effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders, you will create and deliver a variety of innovative and customised tools, such as budget impact modelling and funnel plots. Your efforts across the portfolio will ensure that the appropriate frameworks, policies, and collaborations are established, aligning GSK’s initiatives with local NHS priorities to support them in achieving their targets.

In this role you will

• Develop Strategic Partnerships: Build and maintain relationships with Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), national NHS decision-makers, and healthcare providers to align GSK initiatives with national and regional health priorities. Identify and prioritize ICBs for engagement using segmentation frameworks.
• Develop and enable Market Access: Collaborate with NHS stakeholders to create an environment that supports the appropriate uptake of innovation, working alongside Communications and Government Affairs teams to ensure alignment with NHS needs.
• Prepare and present data-driven insight to customers: Utilise a range of technical tools and data, including budget impact modelling, to provide tailored information to regional and national customers.
• Drive Collaborative Opportunities: Identify and implement non-promotional partnerships with healthcare systems, focusing on themes like prevention, community care, and digital health transformation to support NHS objectives.
• Represent GSK Externally: Advocate for GSK’s strategic direction and prevention agenda at national and regional levels, ensuring alignment with NHS strategic plans while representing GSK’s values and vision.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with internal teams, including account management, market preparation, and medical affairs, to deliver coordinated, customer-centric solutions that support NHS priorities.
• Ensure Compliance: Adhere to ABPI standards and regulatory guidelines, maintaining ethical and compliant practices across all activities.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Working experience within the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare bodies, or related organizations.
• In-role experience or academic qualification in health economics or health policy.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to manage and measure success using quantitative and qualitative metrics. Proven capability to synthesize complex information into clear, goal-oriented messaging.
• In-depth understanding of the UK healthcare system, including NHS structures and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), and commissioning pathways Clinical knowledge of treatment landscapes and biological mechanisms, supported by proven experience or academic qualifications.
• Strong understanding of DHSC and NHS policy landscape.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with demonstrated ability to engage and manage senior stakeholders effectively.
• Strong project management expertise with a track record of delivering complex projects across matrixed and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• MSc or PhD in health economics, health policy, business, or other related field.
• Experience in pharmaceutical account management, OR pricing negotiations.

Closing Date for Applications – 25th April 2025

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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.

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