What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Coaching and Selling Excellence – Oncology position at GSK?
Site Name: Durham Blackwell Street
Posted Date: Feb 26 2025
At GSK, we focus on delivering innovative medicines to prevent and treat disease. While much progress has been made in the past few years, more can be done to REDEFINE EXPECTATIONS across infectious diseases, HIV, oncology, and immunology.
We want to be ambitious for patients and to do that we need great people. We need a Director of Leadership Development to help drive the training capabilities within our sales organization. The ideal candidate for the role will have experience navigating learning management systems, complex matrixed team, developing skill-based trainings, copy approval experience and providing an aligned and objective plan for advancing leadership capabilities within the Oncology space.
In this role, you will be driving the planning and execution of orientation for newly hired managers into the organization, all learning journeys for new and established employees and ensure assets are built and approved. As the Director of Leadership Development, you will lead the build and execution of several developmental programs for the BU.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead critical activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:
Basic Qualifications:
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.
If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or 1 801 567 5155 (outside US).
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Posted Date: Feb 26 2025
At GSK, we focus on delivering innovative medicines to prevent and treat disease. While much progress has been made in the past few years, more can be done to REDEFINE EXPECTATIONS across infectious diseases, HIV, oncology, and immunology.
We want to be ambitious for patients and to do that we need great people. We need a Director of Leadership Development to help drive the training capabilities within our sales organization. The ideal candidate for the role will have experience navigating learning management systems, complex matrixed team, developing skill-based trainings, copy approval experience and providing an aligned and objective plan for advancing leadership capabilities within the Oncology space.
In this role, you will be driving the planning and execution of orientation for newly hired managers into the organization, all learning journeys for new and established employees and ensure assets are built and approved. As the Director of Leadership Development, you will lead the build and execution of several developmental programs for the BU.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead critical activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:
- Develop robust orientation journey for newly hired/promoted managers to get them acclimated to GSK, GSK Cultural Pillars and manager systems.
- Define, structure, plan and execute multiple programs that must be distinguished from each other with nuance skills that layer on each other.
- Provide organization to keep all projects in order and morning within time frames aligned on. .
- Provide valuation and opportunity assessment for new innovation opportunities that can increase skills and keep up with industry dynamics and meet business needs.
- Challenge existing thinking and contribute to developing disruptive leadership strategies and recommendations that impact our leader’s ability to drive demand within their respective functions.
- Manage the Learning Management System (LMS)/Coaching Platform
- Evaluate the current reports to assess trends, opportunities, and best practices to share with leadership team.
- Be the point person for Oncology for any and all leadership discussions.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree
- Minimum of 3 years previous learning and development experience working in the Pharmaceutical biotech and/or health care industry.
- Minimum of 1 project management experience.
- Minimum of 2 years development of people experience.
- 50% nationwide travel for training events, sales leadership meetings, and field rides.
- Minimum of 1 year of content creation and approval of content internally.
- High degree of creativity and innovation in developing new approaches, processes, and methodologies
- Ability to communicate with various internal stakeholders at high levels.
- Previous people leadership experience.
- Ability to influence without authority across matrixed organizations
- Substantive project management experience that can keep multiple projects on track
- Experience vetting vendors and keeping vendors accountable for timetables agreed upon.
- Experience in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and creating learning journeys
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.
If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or 1 801 567 5155 (outside US).
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
