NHS Strategy, Portfolio and Partnerships Senior Manager - Field Based

Site Name: Field Worker - GBR, GSK HQ, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, Ware RD
Posted Date: Dec 16 2024
This is a field-based role within the UK, with flexibility to discuss both home location and territory.
Are you ready to drive impactful collaborations that improve patient outcomes and support healthcare system evolution?
As the NHS Strategy and Partnerships Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping high-level engagement with national NHS bodies, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), and regional NHS entities across the UK. Operating on a national and regional level, you will foster strategic partnerships to deliver tangible benefits for patients and the healthcare system.
Your work will involve enabling the NHS to prepare for and implement new patient pathways by collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders. You will ensure the right frameworks, policies, and collaborations are in place, while aligning GSK’s initiatives with local NHS priorities to help them meet their targets.
Additionally, you will champion GSK’s strategic direction within healthcare networks, emphasizing our commitment to prevention and sustainability. In this key role, you will strengthen GSK’s position as a trusted and valued partner within the NHS ecosystem.
Join us in making a meaningful difference in healthcare today and for future generations.
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
In this role you will
Develop Strategic Partnerships: Build and maintain relationships with Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), NHS decision-makers, and healthcare providers to align GSK initiatives with regional health priorities. Identify and prioritize ICBs for engagement using segmentation frameworks.
Enable Market Access: Collaborate with NHS stakeholders to create an environment that supports the appropriate uptake of innovation, working alongside Communications and Government Affairs teams to ensure alignment with NHS needs.
Drive Collaborative Opportunities: Identify and implement non-promotional partnerships with healthcare systems, focusing on themes like prevention, community care, and digital health transformation to support NHS objectives.
Represent GSK Externally: Advocate for GSK’s strategic direction and prevention agenda at national and regional levels, ensuring alignment with NHS strategic plans while representing GSK’s values and vision.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with internal teams, including account management, market preparation, and medical affairs, to deliver coordinated, customer-centric solutions that support NHS priorities.
Ensure Compliance: Adhere to ABPI standards and regulatory guidelines, maintaining ethical and compliant practices across all activities.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Working experience within the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare bodies, or related organizations.
Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to manage and measure success using quantitative and qualitative metrics. Proven capability to synthesize complex information into clear, goal-oriented messaging.
In-depth understanding of the UK healthcare system, including NHS structures and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). Clinical knowledge of treatment landscapes and biological mechanisms, supported by proven experience or academic qualifications.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with demonstrated ability to engage and manage senior stakeholders effectively.
Strong project management expertise with a track record of delivering complex projects across matrixed and cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
MSc or PhD in health economics, health policy, business, or other related field.
Experience and knowledge in either: pharmaceutical account management, OR pharmaceutical commercial negotiations, OR health economics and outcomes.
Closing Date for Applications – 6th January (COB)
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
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.

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