Head of Global Demand Excellence

**Site Name**: UK - London - New Oxford Street, Pakistan - Sindh - Karachi
**Posted Date**: Sep 15 2025

**Head of Global Demand Excellence**:
**The posting period will end on the 30th of September in 2025**:
**Job Purpose**:
The Head of Demand Excellence is a key leadership role responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Demand CofE. This role will lead the evolution of the Demand planning function delivering new and enhanced capabilities and operational excellence, driving GSK to be an industry leader. By embracing and enhancing data, digital, and analytical capabilities, combined with simplification and standardizing ways of working the Head of Demand Excellence will maximize business performance in the short and long term.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Deliver a range of strategic and operational initiatives to ensure GSK's leadership in the industry
- Build and evolve Demand Planning capability across GSK
- Represent Demand in various Global S&OP meetings, collaborating with Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial colleagues to provide valuable insights for optimal decisions
- Lead a matrix team, including remote and cross-time zone direct reports, to achieve business objectives in line with GSK values and purpose
- Implement processes and governance standards that focus on doing the right thing while maximizing business benefits and continuous improvement through KPI oversight and process adherence

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Strong people leadership experience in Demand Planning & Consensus Forecasting or S&OP, with expertise in deploying digital and automated forecasting solutions
- Subject matter expertise in Demand Forecasting, with knowledge of process design, lean sigma, and advanced planning solutions including OMP, S4 Hana, and AI Forecasting solutions
- Proven experience in organizational and process design, simplification, standardization, improvement, and roll-out across a global organization
- Experience leading multi-functional teams within a matrix environment
- Large-scale business transformation and change leadership experience
- Senior stakeholder management skills and experience engaging business customers

**Other Job-Related Skills/Background**:

- Effective communication and partnership with senior management
- Ability to advocate and influence at all levels, including VP level and above
- Networking skills both internally and externally
- Collaborative work within the wider End to End (E2E) CofE team and other partners within GSK
- Ability to operate across various levels within the organization, from detailed hands-on operators to senior management
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- LI-GSK

**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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