Training, Events and Commercial Operations Executive Manager

Business Introduction

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Position Summary

As the Training, Events and Commercial Operations Executive Manager, you will lead the integrated Training, Events and Commercial Operations functions within the Commercial organization. Reporting to the Commercial Operations Director, you will act as a strategic partner to Business Units and Commercial, Marketing, Medical and Access teams.

You will translate business priorities into capabilities, processes, solutions and services that strengthen execution excellence and maximize the effectiveness of customer-facing teams. This leadership role offers the opportunity to drive simplification, innovation, digital transformation and operational excellence while ensuring alignment with corporate priorities and global standards.

Key Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead the integrated strategy for Training, Events and Commercial Operations, ensuring alignment with business priorities and customer-facing effectiveness.
• Define and implement capability-building strategies for customer-facing teams and strategic internal functions, considering portfolio and pipeline evolution, and oversee onboarding, continuous learning and capability-development programs aligned with current and future business needs.
• Lead the Events strategy, governance and execution model, ensuring compliance, customer experience and operational excellence.
• Manage suppliers, agencies and strategic partners, driving service excellence, efficiency and value generation.
• Lead Commercial Operations, including CRM governance, Veeva and field force support services.
• Drive digital transformation, process simplification and automation, while establishing KPIs, service levels, adoption metrics and business-impact indicators.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications

We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Marketing, Management, Life Sciences, Healthcare or a related field.
• Significant leadership experience within pharmaceutical or healthcare organizations.
• Experience leading Training, Events and Commercial Operations activities.
• Strong strategic thinking, people leadership and stakeholder-influencing capabilities.
• Experience in business transformation, change management and operational excellence.
• Knowledge of training models, CRM platforms, commercial operations and analytics.
• Advanced English proficiency, both written and spoken, with the ability to lead business discussions, deliver presentations, negotiate with suppliers and strategic partners, and collaborate effectively with regional and global stakeholder.

Preferred Qualifications

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

• MBA or postgraduate degree in Business, Marketing, Management or a related field.
• Experience supporting the evolution of commercial portfolios and pipelines.
• Experience managing suppliers, agencies or other third parties.
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, collaboration and execution excellence across multifunctional teams.

Working Model and Location

This role offers a flexible-location working model within Brazil, combining flexible working arrangements as business needs require.

Skills

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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We are 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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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. Find out more on our career site.