Trade Manager

**Site Name**: Mississauga Milverton Drive
**Posted Date**: Jan 24 2025
- This is an 18-month contract

**Posting expires on February 4, 2023 at 23:59 EST

Role Description:
Are you ready to make an impact in a dynamic and fast-paced environment? As a Trade Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting the Trade Lead to manage, develop, and foster strong relationships with key external trade partners, including Wholesalers, Vaccines Direct Accounts, CPDN, Hospitals, Government accounts, PSP providers, and more.

This #hybrid role, located in our Mississauga office is all about collaboration—working closely with internal teams such as Customer Service, QA, A/R, Distribution, Supply Chain, and Commercial, to ensure smooth operations and drive business continuity. You’ll dive deep into data, conducting research and analysis to identify potential risks and uncover new opportunities for growth, while also making strategic recommendations to strengthen the business.

If you're a results-driven professional with a passion for relationship management and a knack for strategy, this is the perfect role for you Come make your mark in a collaborative, forward-thinking team.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Supply Chain Dashboard Creation and Maintenance
- Customer Communications
- Pangaea Integration & expanded scope
- Product Allocations & Drug Shortages - distribution strategy and dissemination for all product movement
- GS1 Business Owner
- Product Listings at Wholesalers and GS1
- New Product Launch Brand Strategy and Support
- Scorecards, Trade Customer Surveys & UPS improvements
- Product Demand/Order Management Master Tracker
- Trade KPIs & Metrics reporting
- Trade Surveys
- Price Change Notices
- Aged inventory management
- Regular operational touchpoints with wholesalers
- CAPDM member
- Customer Business Reviews & Scorecards meeting lead
- Serialization Track and Trace Trade Involvement
- Year-End Supply Management Lead
- Payments and Purchase Orders Management (vendors)
- Product Recall Strategy & Execution
- Wholesaler Sales & Inventory Reports Distribution
- UPS MBR - as needed when it relates to wholesale partners
- Contribute to patient safety by reporting, in a timely manner, all adverse events identified during the interactions with customers in accordance with internal policies and training, including any follow up information received.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 2 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry
- Fluent in English (verbal & written)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Critical thinker
- SAP knowledge and experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel
- Strong strategic focus
- Ability to manage and effectively prioritize multiple responsibilities
- Ability to effectively work and contribute in a team-based environment
- Ability to embrace and respond to change
- Ability to operate independently
- Creativity and initiative to seek opportunities to simplify and standardize activities
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Project management skills
- Experience in third-party management is an asset
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment
- Some travel required

Preferred Qualifications:

- Operations experience is an asset
- Bilingual is an asset

**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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