Site Name: Thailand - Bangkok
Posted Date: Mar 17 2025

As a Communications & Government Affairs Director, you play a strategic role in shaping the external environment and ensuring alignment between business goals, public policy and stakeholder engagement. You play a crucial role in building company reputation, shaping and delivering communication strategies and plans, managing both internal and external communication and ensuring alignment with regional & global GSK strategic priorities.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Government Affairs:

• Leads Government Affairs to deliver business-first strategies, reactive positions and data-driven policy advocacy activities to shape government’s health policy agenda and GSK therapeutic areas.
• Develops long-term strategies aiming to maintain a positive, conducive and opportunistic policy environment to help deliver successful business outcomes and timely access to innovation by patients.
• Builds, maintains and strengthens a broad range of stakeholder networks including policy makers, decision makers, embassies and trade associations based on trust, credibility and partnership. Represents GSK in trade associations and relevant industry platforms.
• Develop an exhaustive stakeholder mapping and implement relationship plans for each relevant business unit through the identification of business opportunities and reputation.
• Leads implementation of corporate advocacy, therapeutic area and product plans with high level bureaucrats, senior policy makers and key influencers.
• Continuously tracks and interprets economic, political, societal and market trends and feeds this into the evolving commercial strategy and identify business opportunities and risks.

Communications and Patient Advocacy:

• Acts as a custodian of GSK's brand and reputation; develops an external engagement agenda and plans to strengthen GSK image through a sustainable campaign in internal & external communications and partnership programs.
• Ensures GSK’s purpose, strategy, priorities, expectations and values are well-communicated and embedded internally.
• Understands media landscape and the importance of newspaper, broadcast and digital reporting to GSK’s reputation and business. Contributes to the development and execution of external & brand communications plans that supports near-term business objectives and builds trust in the longer-term.
• Leads patient advocacy for the development and management of the local relationships and activities with patient advocacy groups and liaising with regional & global teams to align strategies.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields with 7 to 10 years in leadership roles.
• Strong business acumen and experience working in a complex, matrix environment.
• Strategic thinker, strong problem solving, synthesis and advanced analytical skills.
• Ambitious, focused and collaborative/teamwork approach. Proven ability to lead & mentor diverse teams, cross functional stakeholders, effectively liaise with and influence senior leaders at local, regional and global levels.
• Well-developed external networks and an applied understanding of the Thailand government affairs landscape.
• Excellent networking and business partnering skills with proven ability to influence across boundaries and across a broad range of cross functional and external stakeholders.
• Strong skills in managing, influencing and negotiating with external partners (e.g. agencies, speakers, etc.)
• Excellent command of English and effective communication and influential skills.

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

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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