Job Title
Director, DDS Business Enablement & Implementation
Job Purpose
Drive the design and delivery of multiple, complex, high-impact initiatives that enhance Drug Development and Supply (DDS) performance, strengthen ways of working, and support organizational readiness for strategic change. Act as an integrator across functions, ensuring programs, processes, and innovations are translated into tangible impact and sustained adoption.
Key Responsibilities
* Strategic Program Design & Delivery: Shape, scope, and design major improvement and transformation initiatives aligned to enterprise priorities, ensuring clear outcomes, governance, and success measures.
* Enterprise Change Leadership: Lead structured change approaches (Prosci or equivalent) for DDS-wide initiatives, ensuring adoption, behaviour change, and long-term embedding of new processes or capabilities.
* Performance Enablement: Identify performance gaps and define targeted interventions—process improvements, capability uplift, or new ways of working—to enable higher-quality delivery.
* Innovation: Provide portfolio overview of DDS innovation and capability delivery, including progress against plans, implementation readiness and change plan, proactively identifying interventions to ensure capabilities deliver agreed benefits.
* Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to functional leads, ensuring alignment, clarity, and informed decision-making.
* Process Stewardship: Drive the standardization, optimization, and embedding of business processes, ensuring consistency and high-quality execution across DDS.
* Capability Building: Support development of team and organizational capabilities through targeted learning and skill-building initiatives.
* Risk & Issue Anticipation: Identify potential risks to delivery or adoption and propose proactive mitigation strategies.
Basic Qualifications
* Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field; or equivalent by experience.
* Experience in program management, business transformation, operational excellence, or organizational change within complex, matrixed environments.
* Experience in design, scope, and delivery of major cross-functional initiatives with clear outcomes, governance, and performance measures.
* Experience working with cross-functional leaders and serving as a thought partner for decision-making across R&D, Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC), or Operations.
Preferred Qualifications
* Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field; or equivalent by experience.
* Experience leading enterprise-level transformation programs in biopharma R&D, CMC, or supply chain settings.
* Demonstrated ability to manage innovation and capability portfolios, including oversight of milestones, resources, risks, and implementation readiness.
* Experience of CMC processes, digital capabilities, or manufacturing technologies, enabling integrated decision-making with performance and digital partners.
* Experience driving process standardization and optimization, especially in regulated or highly cross-functional environments.
* Experience designing and facilitating capability-building or organizational development programs.
Working Arrangements
This role offers a hybrid working model, with a mix of on-site and remote work. Remote or fully home‑working arrangements are not available for this role. Salary ranges are available for the following locations: US (California, Massachusetts, Maryland): $173,250 to $288,750; Italy: €88,500 to €147,500; Belgium: €117,000 to €195,000.
Compensation and Benefits
In addition to base salary, the role offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in the company’s share‑based long‑term incentive program. Benefits include health care, retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.
Equal Opportunity Employer
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
Contact for Adjustments
UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com
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