ViiV Global Commercial Innovation Portfolio Senior Director

Company: GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Waltham
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; San Francisco, California; Waltham, Massachusetts

Digital Data & Analytics

259485

Job description Site Name: USA - California - San Francisco, USA - Massachusetts - Waltham, USA - North Carolina - Research Triangle Park

Posted Date: Aug 5 2020

As ViiV Healthcare continues its innovative approach to ensure that no person living with HIV is left behind, the ViiV Executive Team has decided to change its approach to innovation to focus on building a new, more robust portfolio that helps to prepare the ViiV business for the future of HIV care. In order to build that portfolio, ViiV has decided to create a role in the U.S. that focuses on exploring opportunities for the business and curate ViiV’s vision, working directly with senior leaders.

Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, this role serves as the primary interface between strategy, technology and innovation, and oversees the strategic commercial innovation investment portfolio and it’s execution. As a result, this role will find and work with different technical areas and strategic external collaborators on an innovation agenda that directly impacts the future competitive advantage of the ViiV product portfolio. Due to this focus, t he role will also provide business leaders with the insight, analytics, and visibility to develop and improve our strategic commercial investment portfolio decision making, to fund the right mix of innovative programs across all growth ambitions. This individual will:

Set the innovation agenda and assist the Executive Team and the Chief Digital Officer to define innovation priorities

Work with internal multi-disciplinary and technical teams, as well as bring in external relationships and partnerships in an exciting, truly global environment.

Have an excellent opportunity for further professional growth and further build the strategic innovation competences within ViiV, through thoughtful exploration of potential opportunities.

Have a major disruptive impact on the ability to improve the lives of people living with HIV, working together with key strategic collaborators in technology and healthcare.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Write innovation portfolio project business development proposals, including scope, budget, timing and technical feasibility and possible outcomes/benefit.

Facilitate workshops and discussions to generate, evaluate and prioritize ideas and further work out and scope innovation projects, in order to e stablish clear project priorities for maximum business development throughput

Mature innovation ideas and liaise with both technical and business experts, internally and externally, to ensure the right focus and feasibility of innovation projects

Optimize resource loading for priority programs to maximum value creation, includes finding, aligning and contracting with external partners as well.

Establish investment portfolio criteria and manage stakeholders and project portfolio to ensure the right innovation balance in relation to that criteria (i.e. in terms of payback time, risk profile, etc).

Ensure alignment between strategy and funded projects in the innovation pipeline

Explore alternative scenarios to optimize investment within and across opportunity areas, internally and externally.

Work with the CDO, ensuring the appropriate balance of projects by innovation type, strategic area, geography, and risk profile

Track market and industry developments to validate investment portfolio planning assumptions and identify other opportunities.

Run quarterly investment portfolio review sessions with Executive Team, reviewing status based on established criteria, but also managing the funding of the portfolio, and its direction to achieve the vision.

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

Master’s level degree in Business or Health related Field (i.e. Business Development, Finance, Entrepreneurship, General Mgt or Tech)

7 years of Business Development or equivalent experience

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

Strong interpersonal and listening skills in order to both assist in formulating innovation projects and to ‘make it happen’ in the current organization.

Ability to influence, challenge thinking and gain credibility with senior leaders

Excellent facilitation skills to define complex technical projects with clear objectives, milestones and expectation management.

Experience in aligning business objectives with innovation priorities and developing internal and external innovation collaboration partnerships.

Good communication skills and project management skills to work with highly specialized technical experts.

Business development background and experience with technical innovation within the healthcare industry; education healthcare professional, scientist or similar is a strong advantage.

Master at utilizing organizational channels, experience and influencing skills to facilitate successful project implementation and effective issue resolution

Creative approach to problem solving and ability to challenge the status quo

Cultural sensitivity and awareness

Why ViiV Healthcare? Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.

Managing individual performance.

Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.

Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.

Building a resilient organisation.

Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.

Managing P&L and capital allocation

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Annual bonus based on company performance

Long term incentives and pension plan

Learning and career development

Access to healthcare & wellbeing programmes

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