Competitive Intelligence Director

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, UK - London - New Oxford Street, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: May 15 2026

Are you a Competitive Intelligence or Vaccines professional seeking the next challenge in your career? This may be the perfect role for you.

We are seeking a deeply curious, strategic thinker to join our Global Vaccines Competitive Intelligence team. In this role, you will be a key partner to Global Product Strategy (GPS), R&D and Medical teams within GSK's Global Vaccines organization. You will act as an objective, critical and strategic advisor based on your deep expertise in current and future competitive drivers in the vaccines market. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategy development and investment decisions and deliver insightful and forward-looking analysis and recommendations to help shape competitive GSK brand strategies.

The role can be located in the UK (London) or the US (Upper Providence or Philadelphia).

Key Responsibilities:

Describe the key deliverables to be achieved by the post holder and the ongoing responsibilities of the role

• Partner - Act as a trusted strategic advisor to GPS, R&D and Medical teams, providing dedicated competitive intelligence support for assigned brand(s) and program(s) on all relevant market and competition areas, bringing objective, independent thinking. Partner with other Vaccines functions and markets as needed to provide broader insight and analysis

• Analysis - Collect and synthesize internal and external data with expert use of a wide range of information sources to derive proactive, timely and actionable competitive insight. Develop holistic and predictive competitor landscape assessments based on a thorough understanding and analysis of internal and external business issues, using robust CI sources and innovative methodologies as needed

• Recommendations - Use expertise on current and future competitive drivers in the marketplace to make critical recommendations from your analysis, relating impact on our ability to be competitive and influencing without authority. Proactively propose further areas of analysis relevant to the asset's life cycle/place in market and that are relevant to our business strategies. Ensure relevant CI analysis and deliverables are integrated into key stage gates of the commercialization process, such as brand planning, forecasting, evidence generation and strategic decision making

• Rapid Key Event Coverage - Shape and direct coverage of key events relevant for your area, ensuring effective integration, consolidation and rapid communication of analyses and insights. Help develop systems/processes that can enable fast response to unplanned/ad hoc analysis

• Congresses - Lead competitive intelligence planning and coverage for key congresses relevant to assigned brand(s) and disease area(s) with input from GSK teams and/or third-party agency. Drive GSK team preparedness, ensure key intelligence questions are developed, align on-site activities as needed and consolidate key insights and disseminate post-congress

• CI Capabilities - Working with the Head of Competitive Intelligence, contribute to and help shape evolution of the team to develop best-in-class CI capabilities, and increase the value of CI to GSK

• Indirect Team -Manage workflow and capabilities of the broader resource structure supporting the CI team. Lead and coach these resources on high, focused performance, optimizing the team to deliver maximum value

• External Research - Engage third party agencies as appropriate and ensure all CI research activities are conducted within appropriate GSK code of conduct, compliance and ethical business practices

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree

• Minimum 7 years' experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, strategy consultancy or financial institution

• Functional experience in competitive intelligence, gained either directly within a pharmaceutical company or from within a relevant healthcare CI, investment or consulting environment

• Strong understanding of the medicine/vaccine development and commercialization process, including activities from preclinical through marketing of a product, and business knowledge of pharmaceutical/vaccine companies and their business practices

• Excellent ability to condense significant amounts of complex information into sharp, succinct and impactful deliverables

• Experienced in matrix environment with ability to build strong relationships and drive impact across a range of functions, seniority, and geographical locations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. - Science

• Deep understanding of and experience in multiple vaccines indications that can be applied to competitive intelligence

• Previous experience working in commercial functions in a pharmaceutical company (global/regional, marketing, sales, etc)

• Proven ability to challenge, influence and support senior stakeholders

#LI-GSK

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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.

If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the appropriate Recruitment Staff by emailing us at - View email address on click.appcast.io

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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