Product Owner, High Content Instrument Capture

Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, UK – London – New Oxford Street, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Dec 20 2024

GSK R&D and Digital & Tech’s collective goal is to deliver GSK impact, including the acceleration the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines to patients. R&D Digital & Tech are the key Tech partner to support the R&D Ambition of bringing more medicines and vaccines to our projected 2.5 billion Patients and support our scientists by supercharging R&D with Data. The Quality Engineering and Labs (QE&L) function is a pivotal function for this, as it looks after the ~500 systems that support the end-to-end R&D process and all the systems that sit within the Laboratories.

The Lab instrument is a core but immensely diverse part of the R&D Data and Scientist’s journey. This role covers all elements of the laboratory instrument landscape, especially those that create large amounts of data, particularly images data. This Senior product owner will be a partner to bring clarity, standardisation and harmonisation across these critical systems within the Labs in R&D, from early Research to CMC and Clinical.

The Product Owner, High Content Instrument Capture will report directly to the Senior Director, Lab Instrument Engineering & Capture. This role is a technical role with a deep understanding of software and how it works to optimise content processing, coding to define approaches and principals, working with technical teams to creatively find solutions to RD problems.

This leader is accountable for the roadmap of large scale complex processes and systems that should deliver ready now value within the Lab while ensuring that both current and future visions are aligned. Partnership with R&D leaders and other Tech groups is vital to this role.

Technically, this leader should also have a deep knowledge of what good product management entails, including product design, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering and delivery of products that create standardised and contextualised data. Experience in ideating new technology and how it can be embedded to improve the R&D experience is essential.

In this role you will

• Partner with R&D on specific large data producing instruments.
• Apply software development principles, practices, and develop code, primarily with Python.
• Deliver modern solutions to optimise RD opportunities, especially techniques like compute, knowledge graph and AI/ML.
• Build exceptional relationships and stakeholder alignment to R&D’s ambitions and strategy.
• Work across the Quality Engineering and Labs team to align strategy and utilise capabilities.
• Drive standardization, metadata and contextualization across the diverse instrument landscape.
• Understand and support the end-to-end laboratory processes.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Degree or equivalent in Science, Engineering, Computing, Math’s or other relevant subject.
• Significant experience in senior technology delivery roles.
• Experience in managing global projects and multi-cultural project teams.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Master’s or PhD in relevant field.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to build and manage successful teams.
• Track record of delivering insights to business leaders.
• Proven ability to work independently.

Closing Date for Applications: Thursday 9th January 2024 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent.