Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, Poznan Pastelowa
Posted Date: Mar 28 2025
Director, Research CMC and Labs Critical Apps
GSK’s R&D and Digital & Tech teams are working together to accelerate the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines, aiming to help 2.5 billion patients and support our scientists by supercharging R&D with Data. The Quality Engineering and Labs (QEL) function supports about 500 systems that are essential to the R&D process, including 250 systems crucial to Research, CMC, and Labs. Some of these systems impact patient safety and play a critical role in getting medicines and vaccines to patients faster.
Role Overview:
As the Director of Research CMC and Labs Critical Apps, you will report to the Senior Director of Research CMC & Labs Operations and work closely with the Director of Scientific Applications, and other leaders across the Digital & Tech organization. You will lead a team managing a portfolio of critical R&D applications, ensuring operational excellence and service management. Your responsibilities will include optimizing the application landscape, ensuring compliance, and driving automation to improve performance and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
* Manage ~20 critical applications that support Research, CMC, and Labs, including lifecycle management and new application transitions.
* Develop and implement an automation roadmap aligned with broader organizational goals. This would include a good understanding of the applicability of AI for operations, and how an AiOps platform could be leveraged to ensure that issues are identified and fixed quickly.
* Oversee vendor management to ensure strong resource availability and capability.
* Build strong relationships with CMC, QEL, and other key stakeholders to support service management.
* Ensure compliance with enterprise changes, risk management, and security requirements.
* Manage financial aspects of the portfolio, including technical debt and cloud costs.
* Monitor and report on key metrics like SLAs, KPIs, and efficiency to ensure value for R&D.
* Lead projects to improve and maintain the portfolio, such as addressing security vulnerabilities.
* Foster a development-first mindset, keeping the team up-to-date on the latest technologies.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* Significant experience in technology delivery and portfolio management.
* Strong ITIL-based service management expertise.
* Direct experience in implementing and managing application performance, observability, and telemetry.
* A thorough knowledge of infrastructure and application architectures and their eco-systems.
* Management and the improvement of risks and controls as they relate to an IT infrastructure.
* Data mastering, data catalogue, and data distribution in supporting end to end business processes.
* Experience managing global projects and teams across different time zones.
* Experience building and managing high-performing teams.
* Knowledge of agile methodologies and how to apply them in a global organisation.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
* Strong understanding of R&D Digital & Tech, CMC, and Labs operations, and related tech strategies.
* Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
* Proven ability to deliver insights and recommendations to senior leaders.
* Proven ability to work independently & strong attention to detail.
* Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
* Proven ability to work well under pressure and within tight deadlines.
Interested in Joining the Team?
Please apply via our online portal providing your CV and Cover Letter.
Closing Date: COP 12th April 2025
Hybrid working applies to this role, min 2 days a week onsite; ideally 3.
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