Join us in driving innovation and speed in R&D! As our R&D Risk Management Director, you’ll play a key role in proactively shaping product development through Quality by Design, partnering with teams to embed risk management and efficiency throughout the Product Lifecycle.

In this role, you’ll support seamless risk management execution across business lines, align with GSK’s Internal Control Framework, and connect with Enterprise Risks. We’re seeking a proactive professional experienced in assessing and mitigating risks to help build a strong, future-ready organization.

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We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

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In this role you will

• Support the assigned business line in implementing an effective Internal Control Framework (ICF), including fit-for-purpose Management Monitoring, informing both risk and audit universe
• Collaborate with senior leaders to foster a culture of openness, transparency, and accountability, ensuring staff feel empowered to speak up.
• Integrate risk management within R&D business planning and performance, proactively identifying and managing emerging risks to support business objectives.
• Lead management review and reporting for R&D, using data-driven insights to promote continuous improvement and informed decision-making.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of a streamlined Risk Management (RM) process, aligned with GSK’s Quality Management System (QMS).
• Partner with Quality and Compliance teams to link risk, issues, and corrective actions, guiding effective root cause analysis and CAPA execution.
• Train and support business lines on risk management tools and methodology, offering guidance on policies, SOPs, and internal control frameworks.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• A degree (or equivalent) in a Scientific, Finance, Business or Economics Discipline
• Proven record of robust experience (ideally in R&D) in Quality/audit/CAPAs, successfully executed in challenging circumstances, with multiple stakeholders and conflicting interests
• Risk management experience in the pharmaceutical/vaccines industry, finance or business, with a proven record of multiple complex projects successfully led in a matrix environment, including problem solving, self-discipline and operating under pressure, with changing priorities and difficult circumstances
• Proven record of robust experience (ideally in R&D) in quality- and risk management-related areas, including root cause analysis and ability to drive pragmatic, data-driven decisions, focusing on high impact areas, with attention to detail, while fully taking into account the big picture and interconnections
• Experience using risk management tools and methodology

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Proven record (ideally in R&D) of the ability to drive performance and influence stakeholders, including Sr Leaders; proven record of change management, streamlining and learning agility
• Proven record of implementing the Internal Control Framework (ICF) and, in particular, Risk Management and Management Monitoring ICF elements, in a naïve population, with successful outcome
• Expertise in essential regulatory guidelines worldwide, as well as GSK company policies and procedures, e.g. detailed knowledge of GSK SOPs, ICH and FDA regulations as they impact all aspects of drug development.  Alternatively hold a strong understanding of financial markets or business operation

Closing Date for Applications – 22nd Nov (COB)

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. R&D is committed to discovering and delivering transformational vaccines and medicines to prevent and change the course of disease. Science and technology are coming together in a way they never have before, and we have strong tech-enabled capabilities that allow us to build a deeper understanding of the patient, human biology and disease mechanisms, and transform medical discovery.  We are revolutionising the way we do R&D. We’re uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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Our approach to R&D.   

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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