Job description
Site Name: Warsaw, Belgium-Wavre, Bengaluru Luxor North Tower, Italy - Siena, Mississauga Milverton Drive, UK – London – New Oxford Street, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Oct 27 2025
Company Overview
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. GSK has kicked off 2025 with impressive growth in sales, profits, and earnings. We anticipate five major new FDA product approvals and 15 phase III/pivotal study readouts over the next two years. So far, we have secured two FDA approvals, with three more expected later this year. By uniting science, technology, and talent, we are committed to getting ahead of disease together.
GCO Purpose
“We accelerate studies through innovative planning and high-quality data generation, to deliver our pipeline for patients”
We – all people in Global Clinical Operations, together with partnering functions and third-party vendors – want to re-design the way we plan and deliver our clinical programs, submissions and end-to-end evidence strategies. Only by challenging ourselves to continuously improve all study stages will we be able to achieve best performance in the industry. All in an environment where our people can thrive. Our work is crucial to help GSK take the right decision to advance our pipeline, responding to the unmet needs of al our patients and generating key data for regulators, payers and providers.
GCO Ambition
“Next level of intelligent clinical trials and evidence generation”
Our goal is to combine human and artificial intelligence with the flexibility of digital health strategies, the growing impact of real-world data, and an unconditional commitment to quality to re-define the clinical trial experience for all patients, revolutionise evidence generation methods, and set ourselves apart from our competitors.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the VP Global Clinical Study Delivery (GCSD), As a pivotal Senior leader within Global Clinical Study Delivery (GCSD), the Senior Director, Global Study
Management Head is accountable for defining and driving the strategic vision for global study management, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, priorities and cultural pillars. This role commands oversight of a global team of Senior Global Study Managers, and their line managers, ensuring the delivery of a diverse and complex portfolio with speed, quality, and financial discipline. The Senior Director partners with executive leadership across Global Clinical Operations and other critical functions to establish transformative ways of working, embed operational excellence, and drive innovation. With direct accountability for resource optimization, capability development, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, the role ensures the organization is positioned to meet current and future challenges while delivering impactful outcomes for patients and the business. Drive the Study Management team towards efficiency and innovation, enhancing automation and embedding innovative AI solution to work smarter.
Key Responsibilities:
* Be a contributing member of Global Clinical Study Delivery’s Leadership Team to include effective partnering and collaboration with fellow
* LT members as well as key stakeholders.
* Be accountable to set a strategy and vision for:
* Leadership and management of Senior Global Study Managers and Global Study Management Line Managers, driving effective line management practices across the group and locations.
* Engagement of Senior Global Study Managers and Global Study Management Line Managers in business improvement/process optimization efforts aligned to key acceleration and innovation targets.
* Continual Embedding and strengthening of the Study Team Operating Model (STOM) within the GSM team Senior GSM is leading the STOM Working Groups.
* Collaborating with Global Study Lead Heads to establish robust resource principles/methodologies for sGSM/GSMs
* Timely recruitment and capability building of new hire within the Global Study Management group to ensure adequate resources availabilities to deliver the Clinical Study activities.
* Building a culture of sharing, lessons learned, best practices, process improvement, etc., within the Study Management group.
* Effective change management culture
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
* Undergraduate degree in life sciences or scientific discipline
* Significant track record in managing Global Study Manager Team Leaders (or equivalent) who oversee large, diverse teams of Study Managers/Clinical Trial Managers ensuring alignment, accountability, and delivery of strategic objectives across multiple layers of the organization
* Experience of leading Global Study Management across multiple Therapy Areas gained in the pharmaceutical industry and across multiple locations.
* Significant experience of hands-on global study management gained in the pharmaceutical or CRO industry.
* Proven experience of developing resourcing strategies aligned to individual development needs and ensuring talent mapping to business priorities.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Advanced degree in Life Sciences or PhD or MBA
* Experience the improving capability and effectiveness of Global Study Leaders.
* Proven strategic & enterprise thinking with strong business acumen.
* A track record in leading a global project or function where people are challenged and developed.
* Proven leadership operating in a matrix environment, ability to constructively challenge practices with senior leaders; possess negotiation skills and ability to influence with or without authority at all levels of the organization.
* Experience working independently with senior executives and the ability to quickly build personal credibility and assimilate business issues/need.
* Highly effective verbal, written, presentation communications skills.
* Excellence in people/performance management and setting a clear vision/purpose, effectively engaging the organization
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.
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 (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
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