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GSK HQ, UK – London – New Oxford Street, Upper Providence, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence Posted Date:
Jan 25 2025 With R&D and Digital and Tech’s (D&T) joint goals to supercharge data in R&D, this new role will be accountable for Digital and Tech products and services for R&D Global Clinical Operations (GCO), focusing on delivering the maximum value including helping to position GSK as ‘Sponsor of Choice’ for thousands of Clinical Investigators. GCO Function of GSK’s R&D operationalizes ALL GSK Clinical Studies, from First time in human through Phase III/IV, operating in > 20 countries via thousands of Clinical Investigators (non-GSK staff) and tens of thousands of patients. Senior Product Director, Clinical Trial Design & Plan, GCO Analytics
will lead a significant team with the below critical accountabilities and serve as
Single Point Accountable Decision Maker (SPADM)
relating to ALL R&D digital and tech aspects of Clinical Trial Design, Planning and enabling GCO-Wide analytics including AI/ML, as well as the tech products that support GCOs day to day operations. Key Responsibilities
D&T Strategy Definition & Governance:
accountable to closely partner with GCO Leaders, translating strategic goals into actionable proposals, preparing and securing investment for value cases. Establish and lead Governance bodies, provide oversight and manage overall delivery, service performance and risk. Strategic Business Partnership:
Serving as a full member of several GCO LT-1 Leadership Teams, contributing to D&T topics and driving strategic business discussions. End-to-End Accountability:
for the lifecycle of all D&T systems used by Clinical Trial Design & Plan, and GCO Analytics, and associated tens of thousands of Clinical Investigators and patients in GSK Clinical Trials. Directly accountable for the delivery of all GCO DT investments, compliantly and to agreed KPIs, in partnership with GCO LT-1s to ensure maximum value and business continuity. This includes established products, emerging products and innovation experimentation/PoV. Product Management:
Accountable for managing the product backlog and prioritizing all Tech services within their respective product domain, ensuring continuous feedback from business customers and end users. Vendor Management:
Accountable for oversight of strategic partnerships with GSK Tech vendors (e.g., Accenture, TCS, Cognizant) as well as product-specific vendors, ensuring maximizing value and effective delivery of agreed value milestones. Matrix Management:
Collaborating with other Digital and Tech functions (ex: GPT) to ensure delivery of key D&T services to GCO. Partner with other Tech platform teams to re-use platforms and tools within R&D as far as possible. Financial Management:
Accountable for demonstrating rigor and discipline in managing budgets across the GCO D&T portfolio, ensuring effective allocation of resources, tracking financial performance, and optimizing spend to deliver maximum value in alignment with strategic objectives. This includes transparent and compliant financial reporting, accurate forecasting, and strict adherence to budget controls, ensuring accountability and cost efficiency while maximizing value from all D&T investments. Quality, Risk & Compliance:
Accountable for ensuring all products supporting the business are compliant with internal security, architecture, engineering, quality, risk management policies and practices, external regulatory and statutory requirements, and that R&D Tech continuity plans are in place for all business-critical products. Line Management:
Leading a team of Product Directors and Managers, providing guidance and mentorship. Note this role will likely account for 10-30% of the annual D&T DevCMO investment and has a significant opportunity to impact GSK pipeline via acceleration of GSK Clinical Trials, which will bring life changing medicines & vaccines to patients who are waiting for them. Why You?
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Technical degree e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or Life-sciences. 10+ years of Pharma experience in Clinical Trial Design, Plan and/or Analytics domain. Demonstrated Experience of Stakeholder management and influence at VP/SVP level. Demonstrated experience defining and delivering strategies that move the needle on critical KPIs via innovative technology solutions. Demonstrated experience with Tech Product Management and delivery of scaled products that meet regulatory compliance obligations. (GxP). Leading Global Digital and Tech teams. Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in leading transformation through technology. Broad awareness of Pharma and Tech industry. Strong written and verbal communication skills. #LI-GSK #GSKTech1 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only). We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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GSK HQ, UK – London – New Oxford Street, Upper Providence, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence Posted Date:
Jan 25 2025 With R&D and Digital and Tech’s (D&T) joint goals to supercharge data in R&D, this new role will be accountable for Digital and Tech products and services for R&D Global Clinical Operations (GCO), focusing on delivering the maximum value including helping to position GSK as ‘Sponsor of Choice’ for thousands of Clinical Investigators. GCO Function of GSK’s R&D operationalizes ALL GSK Clinical Studies, from First time in human through Phase III/IV, operating in > 20 countries via thousands of Clinical Investigators (non-GSK staff) and tens of thousands of patients. Senior Product Director, Clinical Trial Design & Plan, GCO Analytics
will lead a significant team with the below critical accountabilities and serve as
Single Point Accountable Decision Maker (SPADM)
relating to ALL R&D digital and tech aspects of Clinical Trial Design, Planning and enabling GCO-Wide analytics including AI/ML, as well as the tech products that support GCOs day to day operations. Key Responsibilities
D&T Strategy Definition & Governance:
accountable to closely partner with GCO Leaders, translating strategic goals into actionable proposals, preparing and securing investment for value cases. Establish and lead Governance bodies, provide oversight and manage overall delivery, service performance and risk. Strategic Business Partnership:
Serving as a full member of several GCO LT-1 Leadership Teams, contributing to D&T topics and driving strategic business discussions. End-to-End Accountability:
for the lifecycle of all D&T systems used by Clinical Trial Design & Plan, and GCO Analytics, and associated tens of thousands of Clinical Investigators and patients in GSK Clinical Trials. Directly accountable for the delivery of all GCO DT investments, compliantly and to agreed KPIs, in partnership with GCO LT-1s to ensure maximum value and business continuity. This includes established products, emerging products and innovation experimentation/PoV. Product Management:
Accountable for managing the product backlog and prioritizing all Tech services within their respective product domain, ensuring continuous feedback from business customers and end users. Vendor Management:
Accountable for oversight of strategic partnerships with GSK Tech vendors (e.g., Accenture, TCS, Cognizant) as well as product-specific vendors, ensuring maximizing value and effective delivery of agreed value milestones. Matrix Management:
Collaborating with other Digital and Tech functions (ex: GPT) to ensure delivery of key D&T services to GCO. Partner with other Tech platform teams to re-use platforms and tools within R&D as far as possible. Financial Management:
Accountable for demonstrating rigor and discipline in managing budgets across the GCO D&T portfolio, ensuring effective allocation of resources, tracking financial performance, and optimizing spend to deliver maximum value in alignment with strategic objectives. This includes transparent and compliant financial reporting, accurate forecasting, and strict adherence to budget controls, ensuring accountability and cost efficiency while maximizing value from all D&T investments. Quality, Risk & Compliance:
Accountable for ensuring all products supporting the business are compliant with internal security, architecture, engineering, quality, risk management policies and practices, external regulatory and statutory requirements, and that R&D Tech continuity plans are in place for all business-critical products. Line Management:
Leading a team of Product Directors and Managers, providing guidance and mentorship. Note this role will likely account for 10-30% of the annual D&T DevCMO investment and has a significant opportunity to impact GSK pipeline via acceleration of GSK Clinical Trials, which will bring life changing medicines & vaccines to patients who are waiting for them. Why You?
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Technical degree e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or Life-sciences. 10+ years of Pharma experience in Clinical Trial Design, Plan and/or Analytics domain. Demonstrated Experience of Stakeholder management and influence at VP/SVP level. Demonstrated experience defining and delivering strategies that move the needle on critical KPIs via innovative technology solutions. Demonstrated experience with Tech Product Management and delivery of scaled products that meet regulatory compliance obligations. (GxP). Leading Global Digital and Tech teams. Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in leading transformation through technology. Broad awareness of Pharma and Tech industry. Strong written and verbal communication skills. #LI-GSK #GSKTech1 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only). We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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