Director Research CMC and Labs Critical Apps

GSKs 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:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career these responsibilities include some of the following

• 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 developmentfirst mindset keeping the team uptodate 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 ITILbased service management expertise.

• Direct experience in implementing and managing application performance observability and telemetry.

• A thorough knowledge of infrastructure and application architectures and their ecosystems.

• 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 highperforming 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 fastpaced 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.

(Please take a personal copy of the Job Description as this will not be available online post closure of the advert)

Closing Date: COP 12th April 2025

Hybrid working applies to this role min 2 days a week onsite; ideally 3

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