GSC Strategy Lead

Role Summary

Are you a supply chain leader with a passion for creating and implementing strategies that secure the growth and delivery of life-changing medicines? Do you have the vision and skills to manage a complex and diverse portfolio of new pharmaceutical products? If so, we want you to be our GSC Strategy Lead. This is a truly exciting opportunity to be an integral leader within the Global Supply Chain at GSK. The role is to develop and/or maintain a comprehensive product lifecycle strategy for the end-to-end supply chain that aligns both short- and long-term strategic goals across the Global Supply Chain. Reporting into the GSC Strategy Senior Director, the GSC Strategy Lead independently develops the strategy for individual brands or networks, managing risk, cost and other challenges, and is accountable for new business cases and evidence-based recommendations up to the GSC-LT. Work closely with cross-functional teams and manage internal stakeholders up to GSC, R&D and Commercial LT levels. Work location: United Kingdom (GSK HQ, London) or Durham, USA with a hybrid model.

Responsibilities

• Work with Global Commercial and R&D teams to understand and challenge the ambition for your brands – recognizing key risks, issues & sensitivities, and translate this into a GSC Strategy for the product across the 0–10 year timeframe.
• Independently oversee key cross-functional relationships and deliver deep dives and site impact assessments. Chairs the Product Strategy LT for individual brands.
• Be accountable for the Product Strategy Document and lead delivery at a brand level to ensure that stakeholders can measure performance.
• Review 10 year annual long-range forecasts (sales and volume) for individual brands and make proposals relating to investment and capacity decisions.
• Set and communicate the strategic objectives for a brand or nodal network strategy.
• Hold individuals to account and take corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of short- to medium-term objectives.
• Provide strategic, functional input related to network, capacity and cost to support the review of relevant business development initiatives.

Qualifications

• Required: Degree qualified or able to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge.
• Required: Considerable experience in a senior supply chain leader role, preferably with both new product development and commercialisation activities in Pharma.
• Required: Substantial knowledge of business and external marketplace developments; uses insights to inform decision making and shape critical activities.
• Required: Demonstrated ability to deal with complexity involving Commercial, R&D and GSC—recognizing key risks, issues & sensitivities to develop scenarios.
• Required: Problem solving abilities suitable for handling complex issues across technical, quality, regulatory and operational areas.
• Required: Proven experience interfacing and influencing senior Global Leadership team stakeholders.
• Required: Knowledge of GSC network and supply capability.
• Required: End-to-End Supply Chain design experience.
• Preferred: Demonstrated commercial awareness and experience.
• Preferred: Understanding of financial modelling, and business case elements that support decision making.
• Preferred: Understanding of supply chain processes, regulatory constraints, planning and logistics, trade routes and GSK trading arrangements.
• Preferred: Ability to act as an effective leader in a complex matrix environment across multiple teams and geographies.
• Preferred: Understanding of risk management and compliance.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and scenario planning
• Financial and business case analysis
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Commercial and R&D insight integration
• End-to-end supply chain design and optimization