Job Purpose:
- Responsible for driving commercial success (best in class launch, performance) in Japan LOC by leading GSK X-functional team
- Member of the Global/LOC cross-functional, shaping global strategy and co-creation
Key responsibilities:
- Understand global strategy and initiatives, as well as local environment and insights in order to provide inputs to local Launch/Business plans
- Identify growth and competitive opportunities and performance via agreed KPIs
- Escalate and resolve issues including matters linked to performance and governance (e.g. JSR, XF perf call, PCLT, RMCB, etc.)
- Track and understand performance and KPIs
- Work closely with Japan cross-functional team to ensure plans are aligned across Regulatory, Medical, Legal, Finance, and GAMA.
- Proactively provide strategic inputs and insights to Global team to support addressing needs of Japan strategy
Basic Qualification
Skill
- Excellent strategic and critical thinking skills to lead strategic discussions.
- Must have strong performance mindset and proven track record of delivery.
- Extensive commercial experience, including brand marketing and sales leadership.
- Ability to utilize insights from key customers – 3rd party, HCPs, patients – to drive key marketing decisions and forecasts.
- Effective communications and negotiation skills for a wide variety of audiences, including senior management.
- Basic knowledge and capabilities about finance including forecasting.
- High governance mind-set and understanding.
Experience
- New product/indication launch experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in marketing brand management.
- Experience in a direct customer facing role (i.e. field sales, account management, sales liaison etc.), and overall 10-year experience in pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in working closely with global team.
Education/certification/Language
- Bachelor’s degree (Business/ Medicine related/ Related discipline)
- Japanese: Native level
- English: Business level (written and spoken)
Preferred Qualification
Experience
- Commercial experience for immunology/hematology area preferred and additional pharma marketing experience in analytics, market research or digital marketing will be a plus
Education/certification/Language
- MBA or other advanced degree (MS, PhD) preferred.
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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