Senior Product Director, Clinical Trial Design & Plan, GCO Analytics

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Senior Product Director, Clinical Trial Design & Plan, GCO Analytics

Site Name: GSK HQ, UK - London - New Oxford Street, Upper Providence, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Dec 9 2024

With R&D and Digital and Tech's (D&T) joint goals to supercharge data in R&D, this new role will be accountable for Digital and Tech products and services for R&D Global Clinical Operations (GCO), focusing on delivering the maximum value including helping to position GSK as 'Sponsor of Choice' for thousands of Clinical Investigators.

GCO Function of GSK's R&D operationalizes ALL GSK Clinical Studies, from First time in human through Phase III/IV, operating in > 20 countries via thousands of Clinical Investigators (non-GSK staff) and tens of thousands of patients.

Senior Product Director, Clinical Trial Design & Plan, GCO Analytics will lead a significant team with the below critical accountabilities and serve as Single Point Accountable Decision Maker (SPADM) relating to ALL R&D digital and tech aspects of Clinical Trial Design, Planning and enabling GCO-Wide analytics including AI/ML, as well as the tech products that support GCOs day to day operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• D&T Strategy Definition & Governance: accountable to closely partner with GCO Leaders, translating strategic goals into actionable proposals, preparing and securing investment for value cases. Establish and lead Governance bodies, provide oversight and manage overall delivery, service performance and risk.
• Strategic Business Partnership: Serving as a full member of several GCO LT-1 Leadership Teams, contributing to D&T topics and driving strategic business discussions.
• End-to-End Accountability: for the lifecycle of all D&T systems used by Clinical Trial Design & Plan, and GCO Analytics, and associated tens of thousands of Clinical Investigators and patients in GSK Clinical Trials. Directly accountable for the delivery of all GCO DT investments, compliantly and to agreed KPIs, in partnership with GCO LT- 1s to ensure maximum value and business continuity.
• Product Management: Accountable for managing the product backlog and prioritizing all Tech services within their respective product domain, ensuring continuous feedback from business customers and end users.
• Vendor Management: Accountable for oversight of strategic partnerships with GSK Tech vendors (e.g., Accenture, TCS, Cognizant) as well as product-specific vendors, ensuring maximizing value and effective delivery of agreed value milestones.
• Matrix Management: Collaborating with other Digital and Tech functions (ex: GPT) to ensure delivery of key D&T services to GCO.
• Financial Management: Accountable for demonstrating rigor and discipline in managing budgets across the GCO D&T portfolio, ensuring effective allocation of resources, tracking financial performance, and optimizing spend to deliver maximum value.
• Quality, Risk & Compliance: Accountable for ensuring all products supporting the business are compliant with internal security, architecture, engineering, quality, risk management policies and practices.
• Line Management: Leading a team of Product Directors and Managers, providing guidance and mentorship.

Note this role will likely account for 10-30% of the annual D&T DevCMO investment and has a significant opportunity to impact GSK pipeline via acceleration of GSK Clinical Trials, which will bring life changing medicines & vaccines to patients who are waiting for them.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Technical degree e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or Life-sciences
• 10+ years of Pharma experience in Clinical Trial Design, Plan and/or Analytics domain
• Demonstrated Experience of Stakeholder management and influence at VP/SVP level
• Demonstrated experience defining and delivering strategies that move the needle on critical KPIs via innovative technology solutions
• Demonstrated experience with Tech Product Management and delivery of scaled products that meet regulatory compliance obligations. (GxP)
• Leading Global Digital and Tech teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in leading transformation through technology
• Broad awareness of Pharma and Tech industry
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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

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