Job Purpose

GSK’s 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.

The Business Operations Director is an independent contributor who partners with the aligned functional leader(s) to mobilise people, time and resources for maximum impact. The Business Operations Director acts as a dynamic, intelligent glue - identifying, defining, organising and accelerating the operational activities across GMASE and GCO that are critical to delivering the R&D strategy.

This role supports implementation of the function’s strategy to deliver medicines and vaccines to patients. You’ll drive the function’s performance through the application of efficient and effective operational processes and also support acceleration activities and key projects. As the Business Operations Director you will be responsible for providing close support and thought partnership to the function’s senior leader (VP level who works across many countries and cultures).

Responsibilities include driving the implementation and monitoring of the department strategy and operational plans, organising and enabling maximum effectiveness of the leadership team. In addition, the Operations Director will provide expertise in operational excellence, providing a standardised approach to applying GSK policy, process and enterprise support services to enable the aligned department to focus their efforts on high value drug discovery and development activities. 

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to support the effective running of parts of the Precision Medicine business, working in close collaboration with other business operations support.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Actively plan, facilitate and participate at Leadership Team meetings to ensure delivery of strategic and operational line needs.

• Actively support communications for the organization (i.e. workplace, Let’s Talk, etc.)

• Partner with leadership team to develop and facilitate the execution of the team’s objectives.

• Own and manage complex projects and activities

• Commitment to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

• Navigate people, perspectives and processes with sensitivity and emotional intelligence

• Anticipate problems and help resolve whatever can’t be forestalled

• Facilitate discussions and debates to reach decisions

• Provide leaders with an independent viewpoint and respectful challenge to drive effective business processes. Provide insights and thought partnership to guide business leaders

• Provide guidance and practical, pragmatic support on operational issues.

• Translate team thinking into a sound and effective strategy

• Drive business performance and leverage data analysis as required

• Bring excellent judgment and relevant experience to bear on a constantly changing set of challenges and opportunities – large and small. Regularly resolve ambiguous problems and challenges so that they can be effectively addressed

• Partner with Finance, Human Resources (HR), Development Acceleration and Effectiveness to generate resource management analyses to enable LTs to appropriately resource our portfolio.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s Degree required with minimum of 5 years of pharmaceutical experience

• 5+ years project leadership and management skills

• 5+ years working with change management approaches on a range of projects / programs at multiple organizational levels including VP level and above

• 5+ years’ experience creating/using data analytics to drive performance

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Advanced Degree, preferably in sciences or Business Administration

• Highly motivated, agile & adept learning ability

• Ability to thoughtfully challenge status-quo

• International travel required; one week every 3 months approximately.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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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