Director, General Medicines Communications & Government Affairs

Director, General Medicines Communications & Government Affairs

Apply locations Singapore - Rochester Park time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: April 10, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id 417749

Are you excited by the opportunity to accelerate your communications and government affairs career in a role which has deep commercial focus, in a company with a purpose that will make you proud, and in a culture that supports you to be at your best?

The Director, General Medicines Communications & Government Affairs (CGA) is the communications and government affairs business partner to our General Medicines business. As one of our three product areas at GSK, our broad portfolio of General Medicines products, many of them market leaders - make life better for millions of people all over the world.

You will support the SVP, General Medicines Global Product Strategy and be part of the General Medicines Leadership Team.

As CGA business partner to General Medicines leadership team (where needed), you will be accountable for communications about the General Medicines strategy across the internal stakeholders who support our General Medicines portfolio – ranging from commercial and medical to supply chain and tech.

You will also be accountable for leading communications (and where needed government affairs) plans on issues required to support this broad reaching portfolio – which represents 92% of our total medicines and vaccines supply volume and are supplied in more than 100 countries. This will involve issues management and collaborating closely with our CGA people in the relevant markets across the world to lead engagement in support of the new commercial ambition.

You will also partner with our Product & Pipeline CGA team, who are accountable for comms and government affairs related to our pipeline and marketed portfolio, including those assets in General Medicines.

You will be driven, a quick learner and intellectually curious, with a passion for making a difference and enjoy the challenge of working to a high standard on multiple projects and deliverables. You will be commercially savvy, agile, and comfortable navigating ambiguity. In all we do, we are guided by GSK’s culture of being accountable for impact, ambitious for patients, and doing the right thing.

Key Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities as follows:

Portfolio Communications / Issues Management

• This role will lead and coordinate communications on issues related to our General Medicines portfolio, whether related to supply chain, shortages, medical or otherwise, to ensure clear and proactive comms are deployed by our teams across the world. This requires cross-functional leadership on often complex and evolving issues and bringing a multi-stakeholder mindset to problem solving and communications.

Internal Communications and Engagement

• This role translates the General Medicines commercial strategy into clearly articulated, patient-focused and motivating communication and engagement plans for the Global, Regional, Functional and LOC teams that help deliver the General Medicines ambition.
• You will work closely with the SVP General Medicines (and leadership team as needed) and Global CGA teams to help bring the General Medicines story to life, both in terms of the commercial success and broad patient impact.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Min Bachelor's Degree
• Min 6 years of CGA experience, with a minimum of 2 years recent experience working in an LOC, supply chain, pharmaceutical product or R&D pipeline communications or healthcare communications (in-house or agency).
• Experience in commercial acumen and a demonstrated ability to partner with the cross functional team in solving complex problems

Preferred Qualifications:

• High learning agility. Able to apply problem-solving approaches / mindset to unfamiliar areas or challenges
• Ability to translate complex information into compelling stories and adapt for appropriate audiences
• Strong, dynamic and resilient self-starter, with commercial acumen and a track record of delivering results at pace
• Ability to drive change and explores new ways of working, constantly looking to innovate and improve the ways in which the organization communicates
• Strong strategic thinker combined with excellence in tactical implementation
• High personal accountability combined with the ability and experience to influence decision-making at a strategic level

Why GSK?

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

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.