Public Vaccines Manager

Are you an analytical thinker with strong business acumen who can translate data into strategy and collaborate across teams to drive results in a dynamic healthcare environment?

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.​

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.​

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose
GSK is looking to hire a Public Vaccines Manager to join our Vaccines team. This role is field-based contract, and reports directly to the First Line Sales Leader. This position covers the Calgary territory.
 

As the Public Vaccines Manager, you will provide analytical and strategic support for all pricing related revenue generating opportunities including tender strategy, price increases, vaccine product launches, customer relationship management, UMV pull-through, and product life cycle management strategies for the vaccine’s portfolio.
 

Details (Your Responsibilities)  

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following: 

• Proactively manage supply for innovative and classic vaccines to mitigate shortages while maintaining optimum shelf life. Includes regular touchpoints with global and local supply to monitor and adjust vaccine allocation through global escalation processes. When supply issues occur, lead mitigation supply issue process with cross-functional team by influencing without authority.

• Maximize UMV pull-through for innovative vaccines by working strategically with GAMA and Marketing teams and strong external stakeholder management.

• Lead tender strategies for upcoming tenders, increasing the value proposition of the vaccine portfolio while driving growth and presenting overall strategy at Launch & Commercial Excellence to CLT. Once approved, prepare, and submit tenders for public vaccine contracts to PSPC and Quebec.

• Review monthly public volumes providing analysis on performance vs forecast and updating monthly forecast using gathered insights.

• Support vaccine early commercial assets by assessing current environment, future market opportunity, patient population, competitive analysis, and optimal launch timing.

• Ensure compliance and governance is aligned with global and local SOPs for all tendering, contracting, and pricing decisions throughout a product’s lifecycle including updating the global database in a timely and consistent manner.

• Support VPP strategy development ensuring proper governance and compliance for pricing and contracting.

• Collaborate with other individuals within the organization at different levels, including Marketing, GAMA, Supply, Quality, Finance, Customer Service, Distribution and Regulatory. In this role, you would also work with external consultants and agencies as well as with GSK colleagues in other countries.

• Support development and dissemination of customer-related communications impacting Public Health stakeholders.

• Represent Vaccines BU in internal forums such as Quality Council and Drug Shortages Meetings.
   

Why you?
Basic Qualifications:  
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: 

• University degree: Business, Finance, or economics is preferred.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills (e.g. ability to synthesize conclusions and hypotheses based on a broad set of data sources)

• Role requires strong analytical and interpersonal skills with a governance mindset.

• Desire and energy for project/task ownership.

• Ability to interact effectively across the organization at all levels. 

• An understanding and an ability to work with secondary market research data.

• Ability to make recommendations in an environment of uncertainty and ambiguity.

• Positive attitude towards problem solving and subsequent customer communication.

• Superior technical knowledge in using Excel and PowerPoint.

• Montreal location: Bilingualism (French/English) required. Due to the nature of the work tasks, applicants must be bilingual in French and English (written/spoken) to be considered, as in their role the incumbent must work closely with external/internal stakeholders in other provinces/countries that do not speak French).
   

Preferred Qualifications:  
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA

• Bilingualism (French/English)

• A thorough understanding of finance, market dynamics, reimbursement, and primary market research.

• Experience in managing tender submissions and contracts.

• Familiarity with the public vaccines market including knowledge of Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC).

In compliance with Ontario's provincial pay transparency legislation, this job posting includes a salary range to support equitable and informed hiring practices. The annual compensation for this role is CAD115,000 to CAD165,000 , determined based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity. GSK is dedicated to promoting transparency and fairness throughout our recruitment process.Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. GSK is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at canada-recruitment@gsk.com.  Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.

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