Business Unit Manager

As Oncology & Hematology Business Unit Director, you will lead and develop high-performing commercial sales and marketing teams to deliver GSK's Ahead Together objectives with focus, pace, and ambition.  

Aligned with GSK's Türkiye bold ambition & with deep market insight, you must establish the strategic and operating priorities for the current portfolio and future launches in my business unit to optimise pipeline value, deliver health impact to more appropriate patients & drive sustainable growth for the business. You need to ensure you have the right talents & capabilities to deliver our bold ambition and drive excellent commercial execution.  

You will be held accountable for influencing key internal and external stakeholders with a solid understanding of nuances in the local healthcare and regulatory environment. You need to ensure teams operate in line with GSK code and embed disciplined compliance to company policies, local regulations, and ethical standards. As an enterprise leader, you will be a role model living the GSK culture and enabling an environment for outstanding people to thrive in GSK. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Drive and Manage the Business 

• Create and execute long-term strategy for in-country units to achieve expected growth.
• Develop and achieve forecast goals and profit targets & effectively manage business unit's Profit and Loss. 
• Generate up-to-date country-level insights to inform local business strategies & execution.
• Provide in-country support for new asset launches (including market shaping, marketing mix, and channel strategy) and ensure a successful launch.
• Manage external stakeholders (e.g., customers, policymakers, payers, providers) & effectively communicate customer value propositions.

 People Management

• Motivate & engage teams on our company purpose.  
• Ensure focus, clarity & alignment on company goals and strategies  
• Attract, retain & develop diverse talents, and build organisational capability for the future.
• Drive and embed strong talent & performance management processes.
• Build best-in-class commercial teams with high scientific knowledge & strong omnichannel capabilities.  

Performance Culture

• Role model the GSK culture: Ambitious for Patients, Accountability for Impact and Doing the Right Things. 
• Lead teams to drive efficiencies & excellence in our ways of working.  
• Create an environment of trust, fostering open and honest conversations across the organisation.  
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion.  
• Effectively manage change and lead through transitions.  

Managing Corporate Reputation & Build Trust  

• Ensure teams operate in alignment with the Code and are compliant with company and local policies & ethical standards.  
• Builds and maintains relationships and partnerships with public health customers, policy and patient groups, relevant government bodies, health communities & industry associations.  
• Build strong cross-business unit/functional relationships to maximise synergies and make sure that GSK has unified, coherent, and trusted external representation.  

Why you? 

Basic Qualifications 

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline 
• Hematology and/or Oncology leadership experience either as BUM / BU Head level in the last 3-5 years  
• Previous product launch experience in Specialty medicines, Oncology, Hematology or Immunology  
• Experience working in a large pharmaceutical multinational  
• Experience in regional or Local Operating Company (LOC) Commercial roles in both sales and marketing with at least 5-7 years in a people leadership position  
• Experience in portfolio management of brands across different therapy areas and demonstrating agility to learn new disease and product knowledge
• Strong performance mindset and track record to work through difficulties and deliver results

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.

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