GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd Posted August 5, 2026

First Line Sales Manager

Australia – Victoria, Australia Full time
Sales Manager

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About this opportunity

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

About the Role

Join us at GSK as a First Line Sales Manager and lead an important territory, covering the CBD, east suburbs, Peninsula and eastern Victoria. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and inspiring leader to make a meaningful impact and support a high-performing culture within the primary care sales team.

As the First Line Sales Manager, you will play a key role in driving growth across the vaccines portfolio, while leading, coaching and motivating a team of primary care Sales Representatives to deliver strong outcomes across the territory.

As a First Line Sales Manager with GSK, you will:

Motivate and empower your team to consistently achieve and exceed targets

Develop and nurture the potential of your team members, ensuring their growth and success

Provide ongoing guidance, feedback, and support to drive individual and team performance

Navigate and manage transitions effectively, maintaining focus and engagement during evolving business needs

Use data-driven insights and strategic thinking to uncover key opportunities for growth

Prioritise effectively and allocate resources to maximise impact and efficiency

Drive results with speed and precision, ensuring timely delivery of objectives

Why you?

To be successful as a First Line Sales Manager, you will have:

Previous experience and demonstrated success as a top performer in leading similar field sales teams (preferred)

Previous sales and/or marketing experience within the pharmaceutical, healthcare or related industry

Excellent business acumen and effective coaching skills with a passion for developing people

Key understanding of driving sales growth through excellent sales team execution

Excellent business partnering influencing skills and ability to work across boundaries with a broad range of cross functional stakeholders

By joining GSK, you will enjoy:

A flexible and life-friendly working approach, allowing you to do your best work

Being in a supportive organisation that reflects the communities that we work within

Development and progression at a global scale, with international opportunities

5 Feel Good Days and 1 volunteer day (on top of your annual leave)

Option to purchase up to 4 weeks’ additional leave per year

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Skills

Customer Centric Selling, Data to Insights, Digital Fluency, Omnichannel, Sales Territory Management, Scientific Literacy

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and providing equal opportunities for all applicants. We embrace an agile working culture across our roles, so if flexibility is important to you please discuss opportunities with our hiring team. If you need any adjustments to the recruitment process to help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities, contact [email protected] . Please note this email is for adjustment requests only; for other enquiries please use our standard contact channels.

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Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Australia – Victoria, Australia
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 436 comparable Manager Sales roles across 63 biopharma companies.

436Comparable roles tracked
377Currently active
63Companies hiring similar roles
46Countries represented

Salary context

85 of 436 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Case Manager 2 (Care Navigator)- Multiple Positions · Novartis $45,300/yr – $84,100/yr
Highest disclosed · Regional General Manager - Vaccines Southeast · Sanofi Vaccines US Inc. $232,500/yr – $387,500/yr
Peer group range $64,700 – $310,000 (median $178,750)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 436 comparable roles

United States214
China37
India29
Germany23
Vietnam12
Japan10

+ 40 more countries

Seniority mix

436 of 436 peers have a known seniority level

Manager419
Associate Director11
Associate6

Therapeutic area mix

123 of 436 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology44
Rare Disease18
Cardiovascular / CVRM17
Vaccines & Infectious Disease14
Dermatology & Aesthetics9
Neuroscience7
Respiratory6
Immunology6
Ophthalmology1
Gastroenterology1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
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Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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Omnichannel Associate
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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.