Senior Manager, Product Owner - Safety Integration
Site Name: UK - London - New Oxford Street
Posted Date: Mar 28 2025
Are you highly self-motivated, forward-thinking and like to explore new ways of applying existing and new technologies to solve business problems? Do you understand the importance of prioritizing according to business value and can communicate with stakeholders? Do you have an interest in applying modern technology to enable GSK Global Drug Safety to achieve industry leading performance? We'd like to hear from you if you think you might make a good fit!
The distinct behavior demonstrated by a Senior Manager, Product Owner is defined by Product Thought Leadership, Innovation, Strategy and People Management & Development. The Senior Manager, Product Owner for Global Drug Safety, within GSK R&D Tech, is accountable for designing and delivering the roadmap for a range of Drug Safety Data products with a focus on improving user experience, working collaboratively with senior stakeholders to agree on and deliver against priorities.
This role is a strategic, data-driven leadership position responsible for transforming how we analyze and leverage our ICSR data (Individual Case Safety Report). You will own the product vision and roadmap for our data science and analytics portfolio, driving deep insights that enable us to automate and mitigate manual business processes using AI.
In this role you will
- Technology Strategy & Enablement: Act as a trusted advisor with strong domain knowledge, including business processes, industry best practices, and market solutions. Maintain awareness of emerging industry trends such as machine learning, visual analytics, and automation to drive product strategy.
- Demand & Stakeholder management: Collaborate with and influence senior business stakeholders to manage and prioritize the product backlog, focusing on the highest business value.
- Data-Driven Innovation: Champion advanced analytics and AI initiatives to uncover hidden insights within our data, improving quality, accuracy, and timeliness of safety reporting.
- Governance: Establish and lead governance bodies to provide oversight, establish business value, manage delivery and service performance, and handle business risks.
- Product/Project Delivery: Design and deliver products and services that meet business strategy and requirements.
- Quality, Risk & Compliance: Ensure all products are compliant with internal security, risk management policies, external regulatory requirements (e.g., GxP).
- Backlog Management & Execution: Maintain an agile product backlog, ensuring the roadmap delivers actionable insights, streamlines tasks, and achieves efficiency gains.
- Feature Definition: Translate customer requirements into new technology solutions that are easily understood by product teams, developers, and other key stakeholders.
- Continuous Improvement: Monitor industry trends, regulatory updates, and emerging AI techniques to continuously refine the product vision and portfolio.
- People Management: Collaborate with the broader team to drive and deliver business value within tight timelines.
- Adoption strategy & change management: Support product teams and the business in agile solution development and adoption.
Why you?
Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Master's Degree and/or comparable experience in computing/science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Significant experience in the IT industry.
- Strong track record in successful IT development, solution design, architecture, project delivery.
- Good track record in delivering business impact through IT enabled solutions, across multiple business lines.
- Strong facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of AI/ML, GenAI, LLM, NLP algorithms & capabilities.
- Knowledge of cloud & webservice platforms such as Azure cloud.
- Understanding of data mesh / fabric principles.
- Understanding Datawarehouse design and ELT processes.
- Experience in designing scalable architectures and automating business processes using AI.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python.
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms like Snowflake and Azure.
- Understanding DevOps best practices.
- Experience with data analytics platforms, data visualization or Business Intelligence tools.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, a proactive mindset, and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Experience in Project Management, Agile/JIRA, Release Management and Vendor Management.
- Domain Knowledge of Pharmacovigilance and GxP.
- Experience with data virtualization (Denodo).
- Experience in CMDB (Configuration Management Database).
- Experience in working with regulated systems.
- Experience with security strategies and best practices.
Closing Date for Applications: Friday 11th April 2025 (COB)
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer.