Job description Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, GSK HQ Posted Date: Jan 2 2025 Director Product Owner, Scientific Experience Disruption Location: Stevenage or GSK HQ London The Director Product Owner, Scientific Experience Disruption will report directly to the Senior Director, Lab Scientist Experience, and is a pivotal role as it will look for new ways for experiment execution and data journey that starts within the labs. This role is a technical and scientific role with a deep understanding of R&D and how it works, to optimise content processing, define new approaches and principals, working with Technical teams to creatively find solutions to RD problems. For example, how do we create a seamless user journey to minimise the software that a scientist has to interact with to create data with scientific context for use and reuse by AI/ML approaches. This Leader is proactively going out into the scientific community to understand their experiences, collate business problems to be solved, disseminating those problems onto product teams backlogs or looking for novel and disruptive technical experiments that can solve the problems. But with an eye on the overarching strategy for the area. This leader is accountable for an eye on the future vision to ensure that both are aligned and any technical debt is recognised and mitigated over time. Partnership with R&D leaders and other Tech groups is a vital element to the role, to ensure that we deliver on the R&D ambition, and as such a deep knowledge of the Pharma R&D process is very important so that delivery is aimed to be enterprise first, and we remove duplicative solutions from the enterprise over time to simplify the landscape for our scientists whilst not sacrificing on their expectations. Scientific understanding and RD process knowledge is more critical than technical knowledge, and this leader should also have a deep knowledge of what good product management entails, with a very good knowledge of product design, and delivery of products that create standardised and contextualised data, to ensure we not only build correctly for R&D but well for a sustainable future. Experience of how to ideate new technology and how that can be embedded to improve the R&D experience, specifically for AI/ML In addition a strong experience of agile ways of working, product management, financial management and a value first mindset. Most importantly of all, is a proven track record of partnership with R&D and central Tech functions like GP&T. QEL Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Partners with R&D on identification and solving specific R&D problems with novel solutions. Demonstrated experience of thought leadership and delivering modern solutions to optimise RD opportunities, especially to minimize scientific user disruption to create contextualized data. Exceptional relationship and stakeholder building skills to ensure strategic and operational alignment to R&D’s ambitions and strategy, especially with our tech partners in the Onyx Research team, and GPT. Working across the Quality Engineering and Labs team to align to a strategy and utilise capabilities across the team for things like Data Engineering, Engineering, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering and Architecture. Scientific R&D Data is a complicated and many facetted thing, and as such we need to drive standardization, metadata and contextualization, especially across the extremely diverse instrument landscape. This leader should have a strong understanding of data and its requirements, so that they can champion and exemplify the need to drive this forward in support of the Lab Scientist Experience and Data Engineering colleagues. Data applicability also include, but not limited to, image data and the required need for scientists to process their data in a streamlined manner, whilst ensuring that the data is possible to be reused for analytics and AI/ML. End to End understanding of all Laboratory processes, including a good understanding of the sciences that the instrument and software supports, within R&D, to be able to support R&D with an enterprise view of what is most valuable. Why you? Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: Bachelor’s degree Demonstrable experience in senior technology delivery roles OR with (preferably) deep scientific knowledge and understanding across multiple R&D processes with proven experience leveraging technology solutions Specialty Product launch experience Experience in managing delivery of novel technical experiments and multi-cultural project teams, as well as experience in managing virtual teams where members are in multiple countries and time zones. Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team both directly and virtually, including ability to consult widely, bring together diverse views, and facilitate agreement on critical issues. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and organizational skills required to influence relationships at all levels. Strong problem solving skills VERY strong ability and track record of working autonomously and proactively to find new and novel solution from derived scientific problems. Ability to build and manage or influence highly successful teams and knowledge workers, especially across multiple organizations. Track record of delivering insights and recommendations to business leaders Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Proven ability to work independently & strong attention to detail Capacity to manage multiple priorities while thriving fast-paced environment Proven ability to work well under pressure and within tight deadlines Depth in knowledge of agile and agile ways of working in order to ensure management and governance of this way of working across the division. Closing Date for Applications: 16th January 2024 (COB) We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme. We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work. Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application. Why GSK? Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology). Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. 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