Senior Director, Legal & Compliance & WREF Digital and Tech

GSKs success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders its 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.

Job Purpose

This new position in Digital & Tech is to ensure that the L&C and WREF functions have the Digital AI and Tech capabilities they need to enable GSK to achieve its purpose of improving patient lives.

The position is responsible for driving bold Tech Data and AI strategies for GSKs Legal & Compliance and WREF organizations to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives utilizing AI digital data and analytics capabilities across all their business processes and into the four business units. The role will partner closely with all members of the Global L&C and WREF Leadership teams to align on strategic priorities for Digital & Tech and implement those agreed performance objectives.

This role will be based in the UK so that it is close to key business stakeholders. We seek a digital transformation leader passionate about our mission dedicated to patients and people and committed to fostering an inclusive culture at GSK.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: This role will be a member of the Legal and WREF LTs and partner closely with the SVP General Counsel on how AI digital data and technology can improve employee capabilities and engagement and influence and increase digital and data literacy across both the broader L&C organisation and GSK overall.

• Single point accountability for all things Digital & Tech: Accountable for impeccable delivery and support for all technology products and services to the GSK L&C and WREF to enable delivery of their IPTc objectives for each member of the L&C and WREF LTs.

• Thought leadership Influence and Digital Literacy: Build out new capability that are top quartile for Fortune 500 L&C and WREF functions.

• Agile and Software Engineering: Accountable for ensuring that all software engineering adheres to modern practices including Agile DevOps and extensive AI based automation.

• Team Leadership & Stakeholder Collaboration: Lead and mentor a high-performing digital and technology team. Work closely with the Functional business leaders and Process-Aligned leaders Tech Privacy Cybersecurity Legal and Compliance to ensure integration and regulatory compliance. Manage vendors and partners against business outcomes.

• Compliance & Governance: Accountable for ensuring all Digital & Tech products supporting GSK L&C and WREF are compliant with internal GSK security risk management policies and practices external regulatory and statutory requirements other local regulations applicable in the market we operate in. Ensure business continuity for all critical technology.

Key Business Processes within the scope of the role:

Legal

• Legal Matter & Case Management Platforms:
  Oversee legal matter and case management systems supporting litigation advisory work and external counsel. Apply AI/GenAI for matter prioritisation risk assessment and cost forecasting ensuring compliance with privilege and jurisdictional requirements.

• Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM):
  Govern platforms supporting contract authoring negotiation execution and obligation management. Leverage AI/GenAI for clause analysis risk identification and cycle-time reduction ensuring standardisation and auditability.

• eDiscovery & Legal Data Management:
  Manage eDiscovery and legal data platforms supporting defensible document preservation review and production. Use AI/GenAI to accelerate review identify relevance and privilege and control costs.

• Intellectual Property (IP) Management Systems:
  Oversee systems managing IP portfolios filings and renewals. Apply analytics to assess portfolio value competitive risk and strategic alignment.

• Legal Knowledge & Advisory Enablement:
  Drive legal knowledge platforms enabling access to guidance precedents and research. Use AI to enhance search summarisation and advisory responsiveness.

Compliance

• Regulatory Change & Obligation Management:
  Govern platforms tracking regulatory developments and obligations across geographies. Develop strategies for horizon scanning impact assessment and obligation mapping.

• Policy Management & Employee Attestations:
  Manage digital policy lifecycle platforms covering authoring distribution and attestations. Use technology to simplify content and improve understanding and compliance.

• Risk Controls & Compliance Monitoring (GRC):
  Oversee GRC platforms supporting risk identification control testing and issue remediation. Apply pattern identification for risk prioritisation and anomaly detection.

• Investigations Ethics & Whistleblowing Systems:
  Govern investigation and confidential reporting platforms. Use AI/GenAI for case triage and trend analysis ensuring fairness confidentiality and regulatory compliance.

WREF

• Portfolio & Lease Management Systems:
  Oversee platforms managing global property portfolios leases and financial obligations. Apply analytics to optimise portfolio strategy and cost efficiency.

• Capital Projects & Facilities Management:
  Govern tools supporting capital planning construction and facilities operations.

• Workplace Strategy & Space Optimisation:
  Drive digital workplace platforms supporting space planning and utilisation analytics.

• Sustainability Energy & ESG Reporting:
  Manage platforms capturing energy emissions and sustainability data. Use analytics and AI/GenAI to support ESG reporting and performance improvement.

• Vendor Asset & Service Provider Management:
  Oversee platforms managing vendors service contracts and asset lifecycles. Apply automation and AI/GenAI to improve service quality compliance and cost transparency.

Why you

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Science Information Technology or Engineering) or equivalent experience.

• Extensive experience working in an Enterprise Technology organisation delivering services at global scale. Consulting and/ or BioPharma background is preferred.

• Experience and track record in successful Digital strategy development solution design and execution using Digital Data & Analytics to drive better customer engagement.

• Experience driving significant transformation (capabilities and culture) using AI/Digital/Data technology.

• Excellent relationship skills strong influencing and communication skills at very senior level.

• Proven experience in influencing and leading agile methods and ways of working with data and technology.

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills capable of building enthusiastic support for new ideas and converting resistance to endorsement with robust collaboration with various stakeholders leaders and agile team(s) across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics it would be a plus:

• Industry Certifications in 6 Sigma (Green or Black Belt) ITIL Agile or Privacy are desirable but not essential.

• Masters degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Science Information Technology or Engineering) or equivalent experience

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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 purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade as a successful growing company where people can thrive.

We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make so were committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how together we deliver for patients shareholders and our people.

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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