Job Description

This role represents an extraordinary opportunity to join our UK Leadership team. We use the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives here in the UK and around the world. We’re following the science to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats. Achieving these ambitions through leading a diverse and inclusive workplace, with a focus on doing better for people and our planet.

You will be an exceptional customer focused leader, with a proven track record of effectively leading teams to deliver successful outcomes across dynamic and complex environments. Comfortable operating both in and outside the company with senior stakeholders, you will lead a culture of curiosity managing an important broad portfolio of key-promoted and late lifecycle products. Importantly, you will have the critical role to build the team that will deliver market leading launches across our exciting pipeline of Rare, Speciality & General Medicines, in the coming years.

You will be able to navigate and connect across our organisation to seek out & create opportunities for our products and people. This role will provide you with the opportunity to lead the Business Unit and play a critical role contributing to a high performing Leadership Team. Providing you with a platform to develop and take on further responsibility outside of the UK or within our global organisation.

You will require strong strategic thinking/planning, highly effective leadership, and importantly, a passion for improving the way we deliver value to our customers & patients.

You will be a member of our UK Human Health Leadership Team with responsibility over the coming years for the successful preparation and UK market launch of an exciting Pipeline Portfolio across Rare, Speciality and General Medicine. Together with responsibility for transitional investment across a P&L profile that includes current key promoted brands and a broad portfolio of late lifecycle products. You will build, lead and empower a high-performing team of colleagues who collectively will:

• Engage end-users, health care professionals and key system stakeholders to establish mutual value and shape an environment in which our Medicines are used to deliver value to patients, public and the healthcare system.

• Develop / adapt our commercial strategy and priorities to deliver customer and ‘end-user’ value to ensure sustained bottom-line business performance, taking into account changing internal and external dynamics.

• Convert strategic priorities into well-defined KPIs / OKRs, ensuring that project plans are efficiently developed, resourced, tracked, and executed.

• Ensure robust compliance, privacy, risk identification and risk mitigation processes are in place and are regularly audited and improved.

• Use data and developing analytic approaches to drive better business outcomes (ROI) and valued customer engagement.

• Develop/Guide a culture of curiosity, and continuous learning through which team members will experiment, adapt and rapidly scale tactical solutions that will deliver value to end-users, health care professionals and key system stakeholders.

• Create an inspiring, inclusive & happy hybrid working environment where diverse opinions are welcomed and heard. Where every employee is enabled to contribute their best.

What you will need:

• Exceptional Customer Focus with a drive for external engagement and ability to develop effective personal relationships with Clinical & Health System leaders

• Strong commercial experience within the pharmaceutical industry; ideally a good appreciation of the ‘end-to-end’ process of launching, promoting and supplying pharmaceutical products.

• Track record of developing strategies, managing resources and subsequently delivering business outcomes in alignment with that strategy.

• An authentic, humble and flexible leader; who can demonstrate delivery through others, is able to support & enable team members through effective coaching and mentoring.

• Experience of collaborating across markets/with global; able to build strong professional networks to deliver on joint objectives.

• Experience working in Speciality and Rare Diseases is preferred.

Leadership Behaviours:
Shaping the Future:

• Strategic Planning: Obtaining Information and Identify key Issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal; committing to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints and organizational values.

• Business Savvy: Building business acumen; using one’s knowledge of economic, financial, market and industry trends to understand and improve individual, work group and organizational results; using one’s understanding of major business functions, industry trends and own organisation’s position to contribute to effective business strategies and tactics.

• Decision Making: Securing and comparing information from the multiple sources to identify business issues; committing to an action after weighing alternative solutions against important decision criteria.

Unlocking Potential:

• Networking & Partnership: Cultivating networks and partnerships; initiating and maintaining strategic relationship with stakeholders and potential partners inside and outside the organisation, who are willing and able to provide the information, ideas, expertise and/or influence needed to advance understanding of business issues and achieve business goals

• Influencing: Creating and executing influence strategies that gain commitment to one’s ideas and persuade key stakeholders to take action that will advance shared interests and business goals

• Establishing and supporting organizational systems, policies and practices that enhance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as well as leverage the capabilities and insights of individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, styles, abilities and motivations.

Deliver Impact:

• Execution Excellence: Translating strategic priorities into operational reality in line with compliance standards; establishing high standards, communication, accountability, resource capabilities, internal processes and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.

• Ownership & Accountability; Sharing ownership, authority and responsibilities with others to move decision making and accountability downward in the organisation to stretch individuals capabilities while accomplishing the business unit’s strategic priorities.

• Motivation and Inspiration: Motivating individuals towards higher levels of performance that are aligned with the organisations’ Purpose and Strategic Framework.

Our presence in the UK goes back a long way. For over 80 years, we’ve been researching, developing and supplying new medicines and vaccines that prevent and treat diseases that occur at every stage of life. Today we're one of the top five biopharmaceutical companies in the UK and employ over 2,000 people across five sites in Hertfordshire, Northumberland, Buckinghamshire, Edinburgh and London. We are officially certified by the Top Employer Institute and been awarded the exclusive Top Employer United Kingdom Certification.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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