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About the Role
R&D Tech Transformation & Operations connects strategy, investment, and delivery across priority R&D technology programs. This role strengthens a portfolio of priority R&D technology programs by connecting program teams with R&D technology strategy and investment decisions. You will work closely with selected programs, bringing constructive challenge, strategic support, and external market insight. You will help teams frame choices, define value, and address barriers without taking accountability away from program owners. We expect to appoint two Senior Directors through this recruitment, with complementary experience across research and drug development technology.
Responsibilities
- Partner with leaders of selected priority technology programs to clarify strategy, scope, value objectives, roadmaps and organizational needs.
- Provide an independent, evidence-based view of program progress, risks and value delivery to support Technology Investment Board decisions.
- Apply a high-challenge, high-support approach, bringing transparency while helping teams solve strategic problems and remove barriers.
- Lead focused work on questions such as build, buy or partner choices, capability sourcing, operating models and external technology landscapes.
- Assess which capabilities could create competitive advantage and which can be sourced effectively from external partners.
- Help shape new technology initiatives, including their business case, funding approach, value definition, governance and delivery model.
- Connect learning across programs, identify opportunities for reuse and reduce unnecessary duplication of technology capabilities.
- Build trusted relationships with senior scientific, technology and business leaders, influencing decisions without direct authority.
- Translate between scientific, operational and technical stakeholders so that complex choices become clear and actionable.
- Contribute directly to strategic projects related to the wider portfolio while program delivery accountability remains with program owners.
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent experience in technology, computer science, life sciences, engineering, business or a related discipline.
- Significant experience leading strategic technology, AI or digital transformation work in a large pharmaceutical environment.
- Strong knowledge of drug research or development and the ability to work credibly with scientific, operational and technology leaders.
- Demonstrated experience shaping and delivering cross-functional strategic projects in complex organizations.
- Experience evaluating technology capabilities, operating models, partnerships or build-versus-buy decisions.
- Ability to use structured analysis to develop recommendations and support implementation.
- Executive-level communication and influencing skills, including confidence working with Vice Presidents and other senior leaders.
- Evidence of hands-on contribution, sound judgement and effective delivery in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Experience in management consulting, particularly strategy, technology or life sciences consulting.
- Experience moving from consulting into pharmaceutical, biotechnology or life-sciences technology roles.
- Knowledge of AI-enabled research or development solutions, clinical development technology, regulatory technology, data platforms or scientific technology.
- Product, portfolio or investment experience within pharmaceutical R&D, biotechnology, a contract research organisation or a life-sciences technology company.
- Experience working with external vendors, technology partners or innovation ecosystems.
Skills
- Change Management
- Communication
- Cross-Departmental Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Financial Acumen
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Portfolio Management
- Project Management
- Project Management Governance
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Leadership
- Technology Change
- Technology Transformation
- Visionary Thinking
Location
- Stevenage, UK
- Cambridge, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $203,775 to $339,625 (US)
- Competitive salary (UK)
Benefits
- Annual bonus based on company performance
- Healthcare and wellbeing programmes
- Pension plan membership
- Shares and savings programme
- Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- Retirement benefits
- Paid holidays
- Vacation
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
About the Company
- We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included.
- GSK has bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade.
- Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives.
- GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success.
- We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
- GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
- We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.
- We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines.
- We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
- People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most.
- Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
Equal Opportunity
- GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.