Site Name: Munich - Office
Posted Date: Mar 18 2025
Job Purpose
As the VP, General Manager Germany you will be responsible for leading and delivering the ViiV business within a key European market. In this role you will have full accountability for the P&L as well as compliance with all regulatory and legal requirements within Germany.
In this critical leadership role, you will look to ensure high quality activity within the market related to people, customers, stakeholders and regulators. You will lead both leaders and managers and as such will demonstrate a culture of coaching, driving change and be an enabler of high-performance teams. In order to deliver results, you will work effectively and collaboratively with the European and Global Leaders across ViiV.
You will play a key part in ensuring the right focus from the team to grow the current portfolio and to deliver the future pipeline according to ViiV’s ambitious plans. You will also be accountable for all interactions with policy makers, regulators and other external stakeholders within Germany.
Key Responsibilities
* Full P&L Responsibility:
o Oversee and drive the achievement of key financial targets, including sales, volumes, SG&A, profitability, and other business metrics.
* Team Leadership
o Lead and develop the Germany team, ensuring alignment with financial goals and delivering on strategic business targets while cultivating a high-performance culture.
* Portfolio Leadership
o Establish Long Acting Injectable (LAI) as the new paradigm for the treatment and prevention of HIV, whilst maintaining as the preferred Oral therapy for people living with HIV (PLWHIV). Compete fiercely to grow and defend market leadership with ViiV products.
* Launch Strategy
o Lead the preparation and execution of the launches future assets with smart resource allocation to ensure successful market entry and boost the overall ambition to establish LAI as the new, improved, solutions to get the country closer to ending the HIV epidemic.
* Maximize Portfolio Value
o Embrace and utilise multichannel options to strategically maximize the lifecycle value of ViiV's HIV portfolio, leveraging data, insights, and market strategies to extend product impact beyond F2F, in a true omnichannel approach, leveraging AI to improve speed, quality and impact of decisions..
* Establish ViiV Healthcare as a Specialty powerhouse
o Understand the strategic drivers of a specialty care company, strengthen the capabilities for Strategic account management and engage competitively with the top accounts to drive faster adoption of LAI solutions by patients and people who could benefit from prep.
* External Relationships
o Build and strengthen strategic relationships with policymakers, regulators, and healthcare professionals to ensure seamless access to ViiV’s HIV portfolio.
* Collaboration with Global Teams :
o Work closely with global, European, and local to align ViiV’s strategy in Germany with regional and global initiatives, ensuring market success.
Basic Qualifications
* U ndergraduate degree in science or business.
* Fluent in English and German.
* Understanding of HIV and/or specialty care.
* Experience in portfolio management of brands and demonstrating agility to learn new disease and product knowledge.
* Experience in the treatment and prevention markets would be a plus
* Extensive experience in pharmaceutical business unit leadership in Europe.
* Experience in both sales and marketing functions (both in country and regional/global) with considerable experience leading teams in these areas.
* Knowledge of Market Access and Key Account Management
* Experience working/leading teams within multiple countries/ecosystems
* Experience in leading multidisciplinary teams
* Experienced in managing a budget, or a P&L
* Proven expertise in influencing and managing senior stakeholders (both internal and external) while navigating organizational complexity.
* Commercial acumen
* Customer focus
Preferred Qualifications
* MBA preferred.
Why Us?
At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV.
We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.
Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a diverse team and a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.
ViiV is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 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.
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