Site Name: Mississauga Milverton Drive
Posted Date: Nov 11 2024
Are you ready to shape the future of GSK’s engagement with the global healthcare community? As the Strategic Partner for External Events & Customer Experience, you’ll be at the forefront of Booths & Conference Sponsorship Management, playing a key role in crafting and executing GSK’s strategic presence at industry-leading congresses worldwide.
In this high-impact position, you’ll lead the annual brand planning process across multiple departments—Marketing, Medical, and Government Affairs (GAMA)—to define and refine GSK’s approach to booth sponsorships and conference activations. Your ability to drive alignment and collaboration will be crucial as you ensure that GSK maximizes its presence at both international and domestic congresses, exploring new and emerging opportunities that strategically align with our business objectives.
You will be responsible for ensuring that all conference sponsorship requests not only meet the eligibility criteria but also comply with the Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC) Code of Ethical Practices and conference-specific guidelines. This means balancing strategic vision with an unwavering commitment to ethical standards and compliance.
This role demands a visionary leader with a passion for innovative customer experiences, the ability to navigate complex, cross-functional collaboration, and a relentless drive to elevate GSK’s position in the global healthcare landscape. If you are ready for a challenge where your strategic decisions shape GSK’s future in a high-stakes, fast-paced environment, this is your opportunity to make an impact like never before.
Key Responsibilities and Activities
- Advance Annual Planning & Cross-functional/Organizational Leadership for Customer Events (Conferences, Booths, & Symposia)
Skills Required
Liaison/Guidance
Direct Point of Contact with external Partners
Provides guidance w/brands (coaching and guiding) on Key Elements of Customer Experience
Expertise on optimizing benefits, attendance, info capture
Partner with external partners
Deliver customer experience (Speakers, Promotions & Material, Booth Infrastructure, Technical/AI Interactivity)
Reliable partnership- ensures GSK shows up reliably for HCOs, there is a need to clarify accountabilities and better resource enterprise tactics
Qualifications
3-4 Years Experience in Event Management/Activity
Demonstrated ability to proactively manage workload, timelines and identify priorities.
Galvanizes others toward a common goal.
Build relationships with relevant internal functions.
Proven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to think and work agile to meet constantly shifting priorities and timelines.
Someone who can hit the ground running and is integral to the Business Readiness Team.
Work well within a Team environment as well as under their own initiative.
Commercial experience is an asset.
Good planning, prioritization, and decision-making capabilities
Good oral and written communication skills
High resilience and agility
Ability to adjust and tailor delivery to target the specific knowledge and unique capabilities of each class.
Service orientation, customer-focused.
Curiosity/Ownership/ Solution-Oriented
Initiative/Self-starter/Independence/Self-Motivated
Conceptual Thinker
Accountability- tight deadlines on multiple items
Managing complexity in a highly regulated multicultural environment
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Partenaire stratégique, événements externes et expérience client
Êtes-vous prêt à façonner l'avenir de l'engagement de GSK auprès de la communauté mondiale des soins de santé ? En tant que partenaire stratégique pour les événements externes et l'expérience client, vous serez à l'avant-garde de la gestion des kiosques et des commandites de conférence, jouant un rôle clé dans la conception et l'exécution de la présence stratégique de GSK lors de congrès de premier plan dans le monde entier.
Dans le cadre de ce poste à fort impact, vous dirigerez le processus annuel de planification de la marque au sein de plusieurs départements - marketing, médical et affaires gouvernementales (GAMA) - afin de définir et d'affiner l'approche de GSK en matière de parrainage de stands et d'activités de conférence. Votre capacité à favoriser l'alignement et la collaboration sera cruciale, car vous veillerez à ce que GSK maximise sa présence dans les congrès internationaux et nationaux, en explorant les opportunités nouvelles et émergentes qui s'alignent stratégiquement sur nos objectifs commerciaux.
Vous devrez vous assurer que toutes les demandes de commandite de congrès répondent non seulement aux critères d'admissibilité, mais aussi au Code de déontologie de Médicaments innovants Canada (MIC) et aux lignes directrices propres à chaque congrès. Cela signifie qu'il faut trouver un équilibre entre la vision stratégique et un engagement inébranlable à l'égard des normes éthiques et de la conformité.
Ce rôle exige un leader visionnaire avec une passion pour les expériences client innovantes, la capacité de naviguer dans une collaboration complexe et interfonctionnelle, et une volonté inébranlable d'élever la position de GSK dans le paysage mondial des soins de santé. Si vous êtes prêt à relever un défi où vos décisions stratégiques façonnent l'avenir de GSK dans un environnement où les enjeux sont élevés et le rythme rapide, c'est l'occasion pour vous d'avoir un impact comme jamais auparavant.
Principales tâches et responsabilités
Compétences requises
Compétences de base
De 3 à 4 ans d’expérience dans la gestion d’événements et d’activités.
Capacité avérée à gérer de façon proactive la charge de travail, les échéanciers et d’établir les priorités.
Motive les collègues à atteindre un objectif commun.
Établit des relations avec les fonctions internes pertinentes.
Capacité avérée à travailler sur plusieurs projets simultanément.
Capacité de penser et de travailler avec agilité pour répondre aux priorités et aux échéanciers en constante évolution.
Aptitude à se mettre au travail rapidement et à faire partie intégrante de l’équipe de préparation des activités commerciales.
Capacité de travailler au sein d’une équipe et de façon autonome.
Expérience dans le secteur commercial, un atout.
Bonnes capacités de planification, d’établissement des priorités et de prise de décisions.
Excellentes aptitudes en communications écrites et orales.
Grande résilience et agilité.
Capacité d’adaptation de la prestation de services en fonction des connaissances spécifiques et des capacités uniques de chaque catégorie.
État d’esprit axé sur le client et le service à la clientèle.
Curiosité, prise en charge et accent sur les solutions.
Esprit d’initiative, autonomie, motivation.
Pensée conceptuelle.
Responsabilisation : délais serrés pour de multiples aspects.
Gestion de la complexité dans un environnement multiculturel hautement réglementé.
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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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