# CPO Capability Director

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: New Oxford Street
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The CPO organisation partners closely with R&D and Commercial to translate cutting-edge science into measurable health outcomes. The Capability Director leads the end-to-end development and evolution of Medical Affairs capability programs that enable delivery of CPO priorities.

## Key Responsibilities

### Strategic Leadership & Narrative Development

- Lead all phases of capability program development, including needs assessment, program design, execution, and embedding.

- Rapidly assimilate complex organisational and environmental information and insights to craft meaningful, pragmatic stories.

- Ensure capability initiatives are clearly scoped and deliver enterprise priorities.

### Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

- Partner closely with senior stakeholders to develop bespoke and CPO-wide capability programs.

- Act as a trusted thought partner, bringing clarity of thought, external insights, and well-reasoned recommendations.

- Lead and foster a global capability network, promoting collaboration and ensuring capability programs reflect diverse perspectives.

### Program Development, Prioritization & Resource Optimization

- Conduct robust needs assessments to ensure programs address key business priorities.

- Prioritize initiatives and allocate resources effectively, adapting at pace to shifting business needs.

- Evaluate vendor performance and challenge partners to bring innovative solutions.

### Innovation & Continuous Improvement

- Continuously assess external trends, learning technologies, and digital innovations to elevate capability initiatives.

- Measure and communicate program impact through meaningful data and insights.

- Champion new ways of working, fostering a culture of experimentation, agility, and relentless improvement.

### Communication & Facilitation Excellence

- Deliver compelling, strategically structured presentations and narratives across levels and geographies.

- Translate complex strategies into actionable plans, clarifying objectives and inspiring engagement.

## Requirements

### Basic Qualifications

- PhD/MD or PharmD qualification.

- Extensive experience in a pharmaceutical environment.

- Strong understanding of medical functions and medical affairs activities.

- Experience working closely with Medical Affairs teams to shape strategy and build capabilities.

- Proven track record in a leadership role, including leading teams or cross-functional initiatives.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including strategic storytelling and presenting to senior stakeholders.

- Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to synthesise complex information quickly.

### Preferred Qualifications

- Qualifications such as an MBA or equivalent.

- Strong prioritisation, organisational, and stakeholder-management skills.

- Experience working effectively across diverse cultures, functions, and time zones.

## Benefits

- Agile working culture

- Opportunities for growth and development

## Skills

### Required
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Digital Fluency
- Enterprise Thinking
- High Impact Communication
- Launch Excellence
- Patient Impact
- PhD
- MD
- PharmD

### Nice to have
- MBA
- prioritisation
- organisational
- stakeholder-management

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