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About R&D Tech

GSK R&D is led by science and is extending our portfolio of products at pace with ever-increasing variance and complexity. R&D Tech has a critical part to play in building modern digital and data analytics platforms, working closely with internal and external partners and regulators. This presents an opportunity for Tech to make a difference via investing in modern platform technologies and digital applications across GSK’s Research Development organisation.

Currently we’re looking for a Senior Manager, Product Owner whose role will be primarily assigned to work in RMA domain, but it will be supporting other function such as OCMO and GQA.

The Records Management & Archiving (RMA) department leads a future-ready Records Management and Archiving Governance and Service Model in R&D to assure the long-term preservation, integrity, and accessibility of the unique and proprietary evidence of our science and to demonstrate compliance with internal and external recordkeeping obligations.

The Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO) is a function within R&D that supports the internal oversight of GSK’s responsibilities to protect patients. This includes the transparency and disclosure of GSK’s R&D activity, delivery of scientific publications and the compassionate use of medicines.

The Global Quality Assurance (GQA) this department is responsible for ensuring that all processes and products meet the necessary standards of quality, safety, and efficacy. They would oversee compliance with internal policies and external regulations, conduct audits, and implement corrective actions when necessary.

This Product Owner role is part of the R&D Digital and Tech organisation that partners with the RMA function to identify and deliver the portfolio of systems that support its business goals.

If you’re passionate about using innovative technologies to enable process transformation in a large global organisation and can set out a compelling vision, prioritising to maximise business value and can collaborate with business partners and other stakeholders to rapidly deliver high quality solutions, then we’d like to hear from you.

​Senior Manager, Product Owner – Tech Development

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering – Building strong relationships with key business stakeholders on an intimate knowledge of the domain’s business strategy and the potential of the emerging technology environment.
• Strategy Development – Developing and maintaining the 3-year technology roadmap for the domain by driving the identification and prioritisation of opportunities, and development of robust business cases to obtain funding to deliver against it.
• Project Management – driving the delivery of agreed products and initiatives, effectively managing trade-offs, and resolving issues to ensure on-time delivery of business value. Leading other GSK staff and overseeing engagements with 3rd party system integrators. Ensuring adherence to expectations of internal policies and practices and external regulatory and statutory requirements such as GxP.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Degree level education (or equivalent) with relevant large Pharma R&D technology experience, e.g.  Product Management for large pharma Development solutions or similar global organisation
• Track record in successful Tech strategy development and delivery, solution design, programme / project delivery and service management, managing budgets (£1m + p/a)
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills, ability to influence sr. leadership and decision-making using data and market evidence.
• Relentlessness in delivering business outcomes, value and simplification with a passion for science and advancing medicines and vaccines to patients.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Deep understanding of medicine and vaccine development processes, solutions, and industry regulations.
• Experience of applying Agile and DevOps methodologies in an environment governed by Pharma industry GxP and computer systems validation regulations.
• Track record of identifying innovative technology solutions and driving them through to implementation and delivery of business value.

Why GSK?

• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
• Hybrid working model
• Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday bonus)
• Company car (or a car allowance) and company shares
• Life insurance and pension plan
• Open and inclusive environment which is supportive and welcoming of all diversity strands (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, or any other characteristic)
• Private healthcare (2 companies to choose from) for employees and their eligible counterparts
• Sports cards (Multisport)

We want to hear from you and support with any adjustments that you may require during the recruitment process. Please get in touch with our Recruitment Team ([email protected]) to further discuss this today.

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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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, 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.

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