Senior Product Director, Biological Data and Insights

Our organization:

GSK Development and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Digital and Technology's mission is to disrupt and transform the way GSK thinks about, generates and submits evidence to radically accelerate the delivery of medicines and vaccines for our patients and participants.

We act as a strategic thought partner for the Development and CMO organizations, bringing together diverse stakeholders to radically transform and connect siloed processes using innovative and integrated technology.

Your role

Our Senior Product Director, Biological Data and Insights will act as technology disruption thought leaders, accountable for partnering with business stakeholders to reimagine end-to-end ways of working using technology. They are accountable for curating, championing, and managing 3-year product vision for a dynamic portfolio of technology products and owning these products across the entire lifecycle, working in partnership with internal and external technology delivery partners.

What you will do:

As the Senior Product Director for Biological Data & Insights, you will own the product strategy for the critical ecosystem that transforms raw clinical and real-world data into the high-quality, analysis-ready evidence that underpins our entire clinical pipeline. You will be accountable for setting the vision and roadmap across two core capabilities:

• Biological Data Management & Integrity: Ensuring the quality, compliance, and consistency of our biological data, including clinical trial data. This includes the platforms that collect data from investigative sites and third party data providers, govern our enterprise data standards, our systems for medical coding and data review, the automation of data transformations, and the tools that leverage AI to proactively detect risks and improve data quality.
• Scientific Computing & Advanced Analytics: Empowering our biostatisticians and data scientists with a world-class environment for analysis and insight generation. This encompasses our scientific computing platforms, our tools for Real-World Data analysis, and the application of cutting-edge AI for trial simulation, and risk detection. .
• Your mandate is to drive a cohesive strategy that innovates with AI and automation to both accelerate the data-to-analysis timeline and strengthen the quality and statistical power of our evidence.

Your responsibilities:

• Strategic Vision and Business Case Development: Define and champion a 3-year transformative vision for how technology (including AI) can radically accelerate drug development. You will be accountable for identifying and articulating major strategic opportunities, translating them into robust business cases that quantify value, and securing executive-level sponsorship for your portfolio.
• People Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Product Owners and Product Designers, fostering a culture of autonomy, business transformation, user-centricity, agile and continuous learning. Your success is defined by your team's ability to effectively own their products and drive meaningful business outcomes.
• Business Disruption and Process Reimagination: Lead your team to act as catalysts for change, partnering with senior business leaders to fundamentally reimagine and re-engineer end-to-end R&D processes. You will guide the discovery and design of integrated digital ecosystems that break down functional silos, connect disparate systems, and create seamless, data-driven workflows for our scientists and clinicians.
• Strategic Portfolio and Investment Management: Own the strategic curation and financial oversight of your product portfolio. You will make critical investment, prioritization, and decommissioning decisions to ensure the portfolio is optimally aligned with the strategic priorities of the Development and CMO organizations. Accountable for demonstrating rigor and discipline in managing budgets across your portfolio.
• Executive Stakeholder Influence: Serve as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to VPs and senior leadership within Development and CMO. You will build consensus, navigate complex organizational dynamics, and drive alignment on your technology vision at the highest levels.
• Enterprise Collaboration and Ecosystem Integration: Actively partner with your Senior Product Director peers to co-create and drive a unified, end-to-end technology strategy. You are jointly responsible for ensuring your individual product portfolios connect into a single, cohesive digital ecosystem for Development and CMO. This requires aligning roadmaps, negotiating cross-portfolio dependencies, and eliminating technological fragmentation to maximize the collective value of our investments.
• Delivery Excellence and Partner Ecosystem Oversight: Provide strategic oversight for the delivery of your product portfolio. You will hold our internal and external technology partners accountable for excellence, and ensure the underlying delivery engine is efficient, scalable, and capable of executing with quality and speed
• Quality, Risk & Compliance: Provide strategic oversight for the quality and compliance of your product portfolio. You are accountable for ensuring your teams build products that are secure, resilient, and adhere to all internal technology policies and external regulatory requirements from day one. You will own the proactive risk management and business continuity strategy for your critical systems.

Basic Qualifications:

While we value demonstrated capability over years of experience, we would typically expect candidates for this senior role to possess:

• Master's degree or equivalent in scientific area (e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics), or related quantitative discipline.

• ~5 years of demonstrated experience leading technology-focused transformation initiatives.

• ~5 years of progressive experience in digital product management, including time spent leading product teams.

• Industry experience in life sciences.

We are looking for professionals with the following capabilities:

• Executive Influence and Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated track record of building trusted partnerships with and influencing senior executives (VP/SVP level) to drive complex technology decisions,secure buy-in, and ensure adoption with measurable business impact.

• Leadership and Team Development: Extensive experience leading, mentoring, and scaling a team of product leaders (Directors and/or Product Owners) within a global, matrixed organization. You have a proven ability to foster a culture of excellence and empower your team to succeed.

• Strategic Technology Vision: A deep command of the emerging technology landscape, particularly Generative AI and machine learning. You have a proven ability to identify and articulate opportunities where technology can create a step-change in business value, translating the "art of the possible" into a compelling and executable vision.

• Business Transformation Leadership: Proven ability to lead people and organizations through large-scale, technology-enabled change. This is about more than implementing technology; it's about fundamentally re-engineering complex business processes, redesigning operating models, and navigating the organizational dynamics required to deliver tangible business outcomes in a regulated environment.

• Strategic Product and Portfolio Management: Experience owning and managing a portfolio of digital products, including creating strategic roadmaps, defining business cases, making investment trade-offs, and managing significant budgets. Acts as a thought leader in external engagements and external innovation; ensuring market trends are integrated into roadmaps.

• Strategic Problem-Solving: You are comfortable with ambiguity and are skilled at navigating complexity to create clarity and strategic direction. You are adept at diving into details to coach your team and solve critical problems without losing strategic altitude.

• Domain Expertise: Direct experience within the Pharmaceutical R&D, clinical development, or a related scientific domain. You understand the core challenges and opportunities in bringing a medicine to market.

Preferred Qualifications If you have the following experience, it would be a plus:

• Business Knowledge: Deep expertise in regulations, processes, and technology that support the collection through analysis of raw clinical and real-world data biological data needed for successful marketing applications. .

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