AddressPosted Date: Mar 18 2024
National Sales Director - Haematology
Location: Field Worker, UK – With national travel
This is a national role, meaning the successful candidate will be able to work remotely throughout the UK, but with some expectations of national travel and attendance to head office as required.
The focus of this role is to develop, execute and measure account plans to drive uptake of GSK medicines and improve patient outcomes in Haematological Malignancies including (but not limited to) Multiple Myeloma and Myelofibrosis.
This is a key leadership opportunity within GSK’s Oncology Business Unit, heading a team of 5 extremely capable and high performing Key Account Managers and an External Expert (EE) Manager within Haematological Malignancies including (but not limited to) Multiple Myeloma and Myelofibrosis. Your role will be to develop and support your team, empowering their delivery of commercial excellence and growth in sales. Additionally, you’ll also contribute to brand and organizational strategy as a member of the oncology leadership team. You will partner with marketing, medical and market access groups, as well as teams in business insights and intelligence, training, and compliance.
Externally, you will support engagements with top-tier Key Opinion Leaders, policy markets, business partners and more, building networks with additional third parties such as professional societies, vendors and consultancies that are relevant to the target market.
Oncology is an extremely important and high-profile area for GSK, making this role similarly high-profile in its successes. It’s a dynamic, fast paced therapy area offering real variety of experience, challenge and knowledge, and is also highly competitive. Our oncology products have a transformational impact on our patients and their loved ones, so this is a fantastic role for anyone passionate about transforming the lives of patients.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Develops and manages the Haematology Key Account Managers (KAM) to lead, coach and manage their business to out-perform the competition through a blend of traditional sales activity, account management and new ways of working.Defines expectations of optimal ways of working for the KAMs to ensure competitive selling, HCPE delivery and strong positioning of our service offering. Leverages resource to enable the delivery of this, and continuously evolves the KAMs capability to engage customers more effectively and efficiently in an evolving external environment
Act as a key member of the Oncology Leadership Team that can support, challenge and shape the overall Oncology strategy to achieve GSK’s objectives in the therapy area
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Degree level qualification in a relevant scientific discipline with the ability to quickly understand scientifically complex topics
Previous line leadership experience
Minimum 2-5 years experience working in pharmaceutical commercial roles
Strong commercial and business acumen
Previous experience in a specialized therapy area, with preference for prior haematology therapy area experience
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Previous experience heading a high-performing sales team
Adaptability and agility in your working style and planning
Demonstrated experience working in an extremely competitive market
Comfortable in a fast-moving and dynamic environment
Closing Date for Applications: 26th March 2024 (COB)
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