Job Description

Site Name:

Montreal Queen Street

Posted Date:

Nov 7 2025

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

We are a specialist pharmaceutical company 100% dedicated to developing medicines to treat and prevent HIV. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, our ambition is to end the HIV epidemic.



As the pioneers in HIV innovation, we constantly look to push the boundaries of science to develop medicines that can change lives and give people more choice. Beyond our medicines, we are proud of our deep connection with the HIV community and work with partners to advance research and development, address HIV-related stigma, increase access to our medicines and provide funding and support to local community organizations to support their efforts in the HIV response.


We are ViiV Healthcare. Here until HIV and AIDS are not.

Position Summary

Are you ready to lead the charge in transforming HIV treatment and prevention in Canada? Do you have a proven track record in building and executing innovative brand strategies?


At ViiV Healthcare, we are looking for an energetic and driven individual to lead the strategic direction and performance of one of our key products, contributing to our ambition to end the HIV epidemic.


In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for creating and delivering strategic plans that drive competitive readiness and enhance brand performance. You will play a critical role in ensuring that we deliver real value to patients, healthcare professionals, and ViiV alike. You'll have the opportunity to shape and advance our legacy in HIV, lead cross-functional teams, and execute initiatives that position ViiV as a market leader.


If you're ready to take on an exciting challenge and lead efforts that will transform the future of HIV and ViiV Healthcare, we want to hear from you!

Please note:

This is a

permanent full-time opportunity

. This position is based out of

Montreal

and requires

2-3 business days at the office

.

Responsibilities

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

Strategic Leadership:

Develop strategic and operational plans, including customer-facing plans (sales, access), key performance indicators, forecasts, and performance optimization processes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Lead projects and programs with input from internal cross-functional teams and external partners (e.g., Sales, Agencies, PAAB).

Stakeholder Engagement:

Develop and nurture effective working relationships with Global and Regional counterparts to ensure alignment with global strategies and plans.

Team Management:

Possibility to lead a Product Manager within the team.

Market Analysis and Planning:

Conduct market opportunity analyses, develop strategies and visions, prepare budgets, and implement tactical plans as part of the annual brand business review process.

Market Awareness:

Provide ongoing analysis of market forces impacting business opportunities and threats, and develop scenarios and action plans to address challenges.

Customer Focus:

Build direct customer relationships to enhance understanding of the patient journey and create meaningful, patient-focused value offerings.

Training and Development:

Collaborate with training partners and sales leadership to focus on analytics, skillset development, challenging conversations, and objective-setting.

Financial Acumen:

Work cross-functionally to understand and develop robust financial forecasts and ensure effective resource allocation.

Therapeutic Expertise:

Demonstrate a solid understanding of the HIV therapeutic environment to make informed decisions that positively impact the overall business.

Basic Qualifications

We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

Bachelor's or Master's Degree. Minimum

5+ years of experience in marketing/commercial roles

. Minimum

5+ recent years working in a specialty role

. Excellent communication and customer engagement skills. Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects. Self-motivated with an agile mindset and a fearless approach to collaboration. Passionate, committed, and invested in the business. Strategic thinker with problem-solving skills. Ability to work effectively in a team-based environment and lead cross-functional collaboration. Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate peers and others. Demonstrates a growth mindset and challenges both self and status quo. Ability to assess implications of received information and formulate actionable scenarios and plans. Skills in tracking and analyzing return on investment (ROI) for projects and initiatives. Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate value propositions to management, peers, and customers.

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

Master of Business Administration (MBA). Experience in the

HIV therapeutic area

or specialty care. People management experience.

Bilingual proficiency in

English and French

We encourage you to apply if you are ready to make a meaningful impact, grow your career, and contribute to GSK's mission of uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.


Nous sommes une entreprise pharmaceutique specialisee, entierement dediee au developpement de medicaments pour traiter et prevenir le VIH. Nee d'un partenariat entre GSK et Pfizer en 2009, avec Shionogi qui nous a rejoints en 2012, notre ambition est de mettre fin a l'epidemie de VIH.


En tant que pionniers de l'innovation dans le domaine du VIH, nous cherchons constamment a repousser les limites de la science pour developper des medicaments capables de changer des vies et offrir plus de choix aux personnes concernees. Au-dela de nos medicaments, nous sommes fiers de notre lien profond avec la communaute VIH et collaborons avec des partenaires pour faire progresser la recherche et le developpement, lutter contre la stigmatisation liee au VIH, ameliorer l'acces a nos medicaments et fournir des financements ainsi qu'un soutien aux organisations communautaires locales pour appuyer leurs efforts dans la lutte contre le VIH.


Nous sommes ViiV Healthcare. Presents jusqu'a ce que le VIH et le SIDA ne le soient plus.

Objectif du poste

Etes-vous pret(e) a mener la transformation du traitement et de la prevention du VIH au Canada ? Avez-vous un historique eprouve dans la creation et l'execution de strategies de marque innovantes ?


Chez ViiV Healthcare, nous recherchons une personne energique et motivee pour diriger l'orientation strategique et la performance de l'un de nos produits cles, contribuant ainsi a notre ambition de mettre fin a l'epidemie de VIH.


Dans ce role central, vous serez responsable de la creation et de la mise en oeuvre de plans strategiques qui favorisent la competitivite et ameliorent la performance de la marque. Vous jouerez un role essentiel pour garantir que nous apportons une reelle valeur aux patients, aux professionnels de sante et a ViiV. Vous aurez l'opportunite de faconner et de faire progresser notre heritage dans le domaine du VIH, de diriger des equipes transversales et de mettre en oeuvre des initiatives qui positionnent ViiV comme un leader du marche.


Si vous etes pret(e) a relever un defi passionnant et a diriger des efforts qui transformeront l'avenir du VIH et de ViiV Healthcare, nous voulons vous entendre !

Veuillez noter :

Il s'agit d'une opportunite permanente a temps plein. Ce poste est base a Montreal et necessite 2 a 3 jours ouvrables au bureau.
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Responsabilites Principales:

Leadership strategique: Elaborer des plans strategiques et operationnels, y compris des plans orientes client (ventes, acces), des indicateurs cles de performance, des previsions et des processus d'optimisation de la performance.

Collaboration transversale: Diriger des projets et des programmes avec la contribution des equipes transversales internes et des partenaires externes (par exemple, ventes, agences, PAAB).

Engagement des parties prenantes: Developper et entretenir des relations de travail efficaces avec les homologues mondiaux et regionaux pour garantir l'alignement avec les strategies et plans globaux.

Gestion d'equipe: Possibilite de diriger un chef de produit au sein de l'equipe.

Analyse et planification du marche: Realiser des analyses des opportunites du marche, developper des strategies et des visions, preparer des budgets et mettre en oeuvre des plans tactiques dans le cadre du processus annuel de revue des affaires de la marque.

Connaissance du marche: Fournir une analyse continue des forces du marche influencant les opportunites et les menaces commerciales, et developper des scenarios et des plans d'action pour relever les defis.

Orientation client: Etablir des relations directes avec les clients pour mieux comprendre le parcours des patients et creer des offres de valeur significatives centrees sur les patients.

Formation et developpement: Collaborer avec les partenaires de formation et les responsables des ventes pour se concentrer sur l'analyse, le developpement des competences, les conversations difficiles et la definition d'objectifs.

Competences financieres: Travailler en collaboration avec les equipes transversales pour comprendre et developper des previsions financieres solides et garantir une allocation efficace des ressources.

Expertise therapeutique: Demontrer une comprehension approfondie de l'environnement therapeutique du VIH pour prendre des decisions eclairees qui impactent positivement l'ensemble des activites.

Qualifications de base

Diplome universitaire: Baccalaureat ou Maitrise Minimum de 5 ans d'experience dans des roles en marketing/commercial. Minimum de 5ans d'experience

recente

dans un

role de specialite

Excellentes competences en communication et en engagement client. Solides competences organisationnelles, avec la capacite de prioriser et de gerer plusieurs projets. Autonomie avec un esprit agile et une approche audacieuse de la collaboration. Passionne(e), engage(e) et investi(e) dans l'entreprise. Esprit strategique avec des competences en resolution de problemes. Capacite a travailler efficacement dans un environnement base sur le travail d'equipe et a diriger une collaboration transversale. Solides competences en leadership et en influence, avec la capacite de motiver ses pairs et les autres. Demontre un esprit de croissance et remet en question a la fois soi-meme et le statu quo. Capacite a evaluer les implications des informations recues et a formuler des scenarios et des plans d'action concrets. Competences en suivi et analyse du retour sur investissement (ROI) pour les projets et initiatives. Excellentes competences en presentation et en communication, avec la capacite d'articuler des propositions de valeur a la direction, aux pairs et aux clients.

Qualifications preferees

Maitrise en administration des affaires (MBA). Experience dans le domaine therapeutique du VIH ou des soins specialises. Experience en gestion d'equipe. Maitrise bilingue du francais et de l'anglais.
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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 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 Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals to apply to our career opportunities. ViiV is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at canada-recruitment@gsk.com. Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.

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