Director of Regulatory Business Excellence
Site Name: Poznan Grunwaldzka, GSK HQ, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Jan 8 2025
Are you a strategic leader passionate about driving business excellence and fostering a culture of learning? GSK is seeking a Director, Regulatory Business Excellence to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) organisation.
In this front-facing leadership role, you'll be accountable for designing and implementing capability frameworks, robust training matrices, and impactful change management campaigns. Your efforts will ensure our teams are equipped, compliant, and supported to excel in their roles while adapting to evolving ways of working.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll champion employee growth and development, embedding innovative practices that drive positive business outcomes. If you're ready to lead transformative initiatives that make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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.
In this role you will:
* Develop and implement a regulatory business excellence strategy, aligning with GRA objectives and addressing skills and capability gaps through regular reviews and analyses.
* Design and maintain a robust training framework, ensuring staff are efficiently trained, compliant, and supported, while continuously monitoring and improving its effectiveness.
* Lead change management campaigns, collaborating with cross-functional teams to prepare employees for new initiatives and innovations, ensuring smooth adoption of changes.
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement, providing mentorship, coaching, and promoting business excellence methodologies across the organisation.
* Build and engage a forum of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to define functional requirements and enhance organisational capabilities.
* Effectively manage team resources in partnership with the Head of Regulatory Excellence, driving a unified vision and delivering on key priorities.
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
* Qualification in a Scientific or Technical specialisation.
* Extensive experience in training and change management, with a proven ability to deliver impactful change across large organisations.
* Excellent communication skills (oral and written), with the ability to tailor approaches to different audiences and drive efficiency and value delivery across multiple projects.
* Strong problem-solving abilities, learning agility, and situational awareness, with the capability to navigate ambiguity and understand the human impact of change.
* Robust project management skills, including managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality outputs under pressure.
* Experience in pharmaceutical drug development, a strong understanding of global regulatory procedures, and familiarity with complex IT systems in regulated environments.
* Demonstrated leadership experience, including managing and motivating teams or matrix teams, fostering collaboration, and driving results through change initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
* BSc (or equivalent) in a scientific or technical discipline.
* Demonstrated success in driving innovation and building high-performing global matrix team relationships.
* Knowledge of GSK IT applications and systems supporting GRA, with an understanding of Regulatory Affairs roles and responsibilities, both centrally and locally.
Closing Date for Applications: 24/01/25 (COB)
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?
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. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
GSK is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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