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Our organization:
GSK Development and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Digital and Technology’s mission is to disrupt and transform the way GSK thinks about, generates and submits evidence to radically accelerate the delivery of medicines and vaccines for our patients and participants.
We act as a strategic thought partner for the Development and CMO organizations, bringing together diverse stakeholders to radically transform and connect siloed processes using innovative and integrated technology.
Your role
Our Senior Product Director, Clin Ops and DevCMO & Performance act as technology disruption thought leaders, accountable for partnering with business stakeholders to reimagine end-to-end ways of working using technology. They are accountable for curating, championing, and managing 3-year product vision for a dynamic portfolio of technology products and owning these products across the entire lifecycle, working in partnership with internal and external technology delivery partners.
What you will do:
As the Senior Product Director for Clinical Operations and DevCMO
Performance, you will own the product strategy for the operational heart of Development and CMO.
This portfolio provides the critical technology used to plan our pipeline, measure our operational performance, and, most importantly, empower our teams with the actionable intelligence they need to drive faster, more predictable outcomes. You will be accountable for setting the vision and roadmap across two core capabilities:
*Strategic Planning & Resource Management: Empowering R&D leadership to make high-stakes investment decisions and align our most valuable resource-our people. This includes our enterprise portfolio planning platforms, our systems for resource capacity and demand management, and the tools used for tracking effort and spend across the organization.
*Operational Intelligence & Decision Support: Delivering tools that move beyond static dashboards to provide predictive analytics and actionable alerts. This portfolio empowers study teams and leaders to proactively identify and mitigate operational risks, anticipate delays, and optimize the execution of our clinical pipeline, quality processes, and sample management logistics.
*Your mandate is to drive a cohesive strategy that innovates with AI, predictive analytics and automation to move from hindsight to foresight, creating an intelligent, integrated platform that enables faster, smarter decision-making across Development and CMO.
Your responsibilities:
*Strategic Vision and Business Case Development: Define and champion a 3-year transformative vision for how technology (including AI) can radically accelerate drug development. You will be accountable for identifying and articulating major strategic opportunities, translating them into robust business cases that quantify value, and securing executive-level sponsorship for your portfolio.
*People Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Product Owners and Product Designers, fostering a culture of autonomy, business transformation, user-centricity, agile and continuous learning. Your success is defined by your team’s ability to effectively own their products and drive meaningful business outcomes.
*Business Disruption and Process Reimagination: Lead your team to act as catalysts for change, partnering with senior business leaders to fundamentally reimagine and re-engineer end-to-end R&D processes. You will guide the discovery and design of integrated digital ecosystems that break down functional silos, connect disparate systems, and create seamless, data-driven workflows for our scientists and clinicians.
*Strategic Portfolio and Investment Management: Own the strategic curation and financial oversight of your product portfolio. You will make critical investment, prioritization, and decommissioning decisions to ensure the portfolio is optimally aligned with the strategic priorities of the Development and CMO organizations. Accountable for demonstrating rigor and discipline in managing budgets across your portfolio.
*Executive Stakeholder Influence: Serve as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to VPs and senior leadership within Development and CMO. You will build consensus, navigate complex organizational dynamics, and drive alignment on your technology vision at the highest levels.
*Enterprise Collaboration and Ecosystem Integration: Actively partner with your Senior Product Director peers to co-create and drive a unified, end-to-end technology strategy. You are jointly responsible for ensuring your individual product portfolios connect into a single, cohesive digital ecosystem for Development and CMO. This requires aligning roadmaps, negotiating cross-portfolio dependencies, and eliminating technological fragmentation to maximize the collective value of our investments.
*Delivery Excellence and Partner Ecosystem Oversight: Provide strategic oversight for the delivery of your product portfolio. You will hold our internal and external technology partners accountable for excellence, and ensure the underlying delivery engine is efficient, scalable, and capable of executing with quality and speed
*Quality, Risk & Compliance: Provide strategic oversight for the quality and compliance of your product portfolio. You are accountable for ensuring your teams build products that are secure, resilient, and adhere to all internal technology policies and external regulatory requirements from day one. You will own the proactive risk management and business continuity strategy for your critical systems.
Basic Qualifications:
While we value demonstrated capability over years of experience, we would typically expect candidates for this senior role to possess:
*Master’s degree or equivalent in scientific area (e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics), or related quantitative discipline.
*~Demonstrated experience leading technology-focused transformation initiatives.
*Proven track record of progressive experience in digital product management, including time spent leading product teams.
*Significant experience in the life sciences industry.
We are looking for professionals with the following capabilities:
*Executive Influence and Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated track record of building trusted partnerships with and influencing senior executives (VP/SVP level) to drive complex technology decisions,secure buy-in, and ensure adoption with measurable business impact.
*Leadership and Team Development: Extensive experience leading, mentoring, and scaling a team of product leaders (Directors and/or Product Owners) within a global, matrixed organization. You have a proven ability to foster a culture of excellence and empower your team to succeed.
*Strategic Technology Vision: A deep command of...