Senior Product Director, Clinical Trial Execution & Data

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Full time
Location: Stevenage
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Job offered by: GlaxoSmithKline
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Site Name:

UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence Posted Date:

Jan 29 2025 *This role is 1 year FTC* With R&D and Digital and Tech’s (D&T) joint goals to supercharge data in R&D, and the recent changes to the R&D organization to accelerate Research, this new role will be accountable for specified Digital and Tech products and services for R&D Global Clinical Operations (GCO), focused on delivering maximum value via all digital and technology aspects of GCO, including helping to position GSK as ‘Sponsor of Choice’ for thousands of Clinical Investigators. This role will manage all R&D digital and tech aspects of Global Clinical Operation (GCO) Clinical Execution and Clinical Data, including AI/ML, as well as the tech products that support GCO's day-to-day operations. GCO 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. SPD GCO Clinical Execution and Clinical Data will lead a significant team with critical accountabilities and serve as

Single Point Accountable Decision Maker (SPADM)

for all Digital and Tech relating to GCO Clinical Execution and Clinical Data. 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 GCO Clinical Execution and Clinical Data Management, and associated tens of thousands of Clinical Investigators and patients in GSK Clinical Trials. Directly accountable for the delivery of all GCO D&T investments, compliantly and to agreed KPIs, in partnership with GCO LT-1s to ensure maximum value. 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. Partner with central Tech platform teams to re-use platform tools within R&D as far as possible.

Vendor Management:

Oversight of strategic partnerships with GSK Tech vendors (e.g., Accenture, TCS, Cognizant) as well as product-specific vendors (e.g. Veeva, Cluepoints etc), ensuring influence towards 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.

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.

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:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: Extensive stakeholder management and influence at Senior and Vice President level.

Deep Expertise in Digital & Tech Product Management and delivery of scaled products that meet regulatory obligations.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Experience in leading transformation through technology.

Broad awareness of Pharma and Tech industry.

Expertise in leading large Digital and Tech teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Proven track record of successful transformation delivery in complex and global organizations. Ability to record the delivery in matrix organizations. Experience in the delivery of partnerships with third parties. Broad complex problem solving with limited information. Knowledge of digital, innovation, and agile technology transformation. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence others. Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities: Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox. Managing individual performance. Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance. Setting strategic direction and leading ongoing organisational transformation. Building a resilient organisation. Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit. Managing P&L and capital allocation. 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. 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. Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on

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