Senior Director Transformation Lead, Development

Senior Director Transformation Lead, Development

Are you passionate about leading transformational programs that revolutionize our organization's operations on a grand scale? Do you want to enhance our performance and harness the power of data and technology to deliver exceptional results faster and more efficiently? If so, the Senior Director, Transformation Lead role in Development is an exciting opportunity you won't want to miss.

Job Purpose

At GSK, we aim to positively impact the health of billions of people by uniting science, technology, and talent. Within our R&D division, the Development organization serves as the driving force behind our exceptional clinical programs. Leveraging data and cutting-edge technology, we bring groundbreaking innovations to patients.

We are spearheading strategic and impactful leadership of our transformational programmes across Development to enhance productivity, streamline processes, and foster innovation. Our commitment to agility and continuous improvement ensures that we maximize our investments, accelerate delivery, and embed sustainable impact throughout our operations.

In this role, you will be the dedicated and accountable leader and point of contact for the execution of an assigned strategic programme including the upfront shaping and set-up of programmes and the delivery to the point of BAU. You will have the opportunity to build and lead a dynamic matrix team of subject matter experts and project/change managers united by a common programme purpose. Together, you will drive transformation and technology-enabled programmes that boost productivity, optimize processes, and implement impactful organizational and cultural changes.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic business value: Be the accountable transformation lead for the execution of strategic transformation programmes, ensuring clear objectives, value proposition, governance, and measurable outcomes. Assignment of programmes will be in agreement with the Head of Development and Development Leadership Team.
• Establish agile and responsive programmes: Set up programmes with a clear vision, proposed benefits/KPIs and resourcing plans and ensuring we focus on impact to our priority assets and strategic priorities.
• Navigate complexity to desired outcomes: Collaborate with senior stakeholders to design and deliver complex, high-visibility initiatives across multiple functions and geographies.
• Provide matrix leadership with impact: Build and manage matrix teams, including internal and external experts, to support program delivery. Where external consultants are required, work with stakeholders to define the scope of the engagement and select the best supplier and ensure active management to deliver best return on investment.
• Collaborative and focused stakeholder management: Work across senior leadership, sponsors and stakeholders to drive alignment, buy in and resolve challenges efficiently.
• Get ahead of challenges: Monitor program performance using data and analytics, providing regular updates to senior leadership and stakeholders, identifying and executing interventions.
• Risk Management:Proactively identify and manage risks associated with programme delivery. Develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks and ensure the successful execution of the programme to achieve the agreed outcome.
• Ensure sustainable impact: At the appropriate point, transition accountability into BAU through a structured approach to ensure continued embedding and transfer of accountability.
• Be an advocate for continual improvement: Champion impactful change, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Act as a thought leader in areas of expertise (e.g. change management, programme management, business skills), including providing advice to other matrix transformation programme leads in the successful set up and execution of programmes they are accountable for.

Job Posting Closing Date: the 8th of August US EOB

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in scientific discipline with experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with in-depth knowledge of drug development processes.
• Extensive experience in leading large-scale transformation initiatives with measurable business impact.
• Experience working across organisational boundaries in global companies (via industry or consulting roles) to deliver complex transformation programmes.
• Proven ability to collaborate with and guide senior leaders across global organizations and navigate challenges and complex environments.
• Expertise in project management, change management, or process optimization, with working knowledge of the other disciplines.
• Expert leadership, communication, and stakeholder management, including the ability to tailor messages for diverse audiences.
• Experience in coaching, mentoring and developing others by fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.

Preferred Qualifications

• High learning agility and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and unfamiliar challenges.
• Strong empathy and situational awareness, understanding the impact of change on people.
• Business relationship building skills and connections with external environments, bringing insights to improve programme execution and value creation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; excellent listener; highly skilled at tailoring messages to senior leaders.
• Ability to make timely and logical decisions for significant problems /has a 'can do' mindset and looks for solutions, appropriately escalates risks and issues and can create a plan to overcome obstacles.
• Able and willing to challenge thinking in the right way and be a thought partner.
• Demonstrate a serious commitment to accuracy and quality while meeting goals or deadlines. Ability to recognise down / upstream impacts of activities / decisions on business functions and identify solutions to respond in a holistic way.
• A team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.

You will stand out if you also bring the following:

• Experience in organisation-wide problem solving and high-quality strategic analysis with impactful outcomes.
• Experience of ability to work independently with broad stakeholders at all levels and the ability to quickly build personal credibility and assimilate business issues/need.
• Demonstrate skill at operating in situations characterised by complexity, ambiguity and high levels of uncertainty.
• High level of energy, enthusiasm and commitment.

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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. 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.

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