Global Commercial Sustainability Manager at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

The key purpose of this role is to support the Global Commercial Sustainability Lead in the development of competitive, credible company commercial sustainability strategies and targets and turn them into plans, projects and actions to deliver CH Sustainability through category, brand and customer efforts.

This role will require working collaboratively with the CH Sustainability and extended Team, multiple commercial stakeholders, business functions and external partners. This role will therefore require complex stakeholder management and there may be specific projects that will be led by this role whereas in the case of some others, this role will partner and contribute.

The Role Is Accountable For

• Providing strategic input, representing a view across Commercial Excellence and Marketing in order to develop a Commercial Sustainability Plan that is designed to embed sustainability in the commercial organisation, and which ensures that our sustainability efforts come to life through our brands, categories and customer partnerships.
• Leading key projects in line with the Commercial Sustainability Plan
• Strong cross-functional partnership with relevant commercial stakeholders and influence to drive the delivery of Sustainability action plans across the business and by category. These plans will be owned and executed by the regional, market and category teams and informed by the global company sustainability strategy.
• Contributing to the continuous building of the Commerical Sustainability Capability Plan
• Leading Content Development for -, executing and embedding key CH Commercial Sustainability capability and knowledge building initiatives to assure rapid delivery of the CH sustainability agenda through categories, brands and customer efforts.
• Input into the GSKCH Strategic Narrative and support the delivery of key content assets that bring the narrative to life
• Support the deployment of the GSKCH Sustainability Strategy across the commercial organisation in line with plan and through key commercial touchpoints

The role will contribute to the facilitation of Commercial Teams selection of business focused and holistic solutions that drive delivery and report back progress to CH Commercial Sustainability Lead.
Key Responsibilities

• Support sustainability strategy development and delivery – translating the headline strategy into a simple narrative, infographic(s) and ‘how to guides’ etc. which can be easily cascaded across the business.
• Work with different parts of the organisation to interpret the strategy for their area and develop plans to act on the strategy & goals – helping them set and prioritise their actions on sustainability whether that is by brand, category, region, area, local country or a key channel or customer
• Help brands and lead design markets to develop their purpose into action plans and execute these brilliantly in key markets and with key customers
• Input and contribute to the commercial roadmap development for the Consumer Healthcare Sustainability team, defining and getting alignment from key commercial partners on clear commercial roadmap of must win areas, including enablers, also informed by input from the Future Business Sustainability CH lead, design, marketing edge and commercial excellence.
• Work with customer teams to develop plans to drive growth through sustainability – acting on key consumer, shopper trends and on sustainability needs and wants.
• Build capability in Marketing, R&D and Customer teams in Sustainability – equipping teams with the knowledge, tools, processes needed to leverage sustainability as a lever for growth. Find ways to ‘bake in’ sustainability to how we do business, so that it becomes a natural part of how we develop category, brand, region, area, customer growth plans
• Support the delivery of the Sustainability Community of Practice Initiative