Director DDS Business Enablement & Implementation

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 organisational readiness for strategic change. Act as an integrator across functions, ensuring programmes, 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. In/out scope of the programmes will be prioritised by the head of the BPI.
• Enterprise Change Leadership: Lead structured change approaches 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 portfolio delivery, including progress against plans (time, budget, resources), implementation readiness and change plan to implement. Proactively identify interventions to ensure capabilities deliver agreed benefits. Partner with CMC performance, digital and MTT leads to ensure a holistic view of all innovation investments and resource demand.
• Cross Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to functional leads and CMC performance leads, ensuring alignment, clarity and informed decision making.
• Process Stewardship: Drive the standardisation, optimisation and embedding of business processes, ensuring consistency and high quality execution across DDS.
• Capability Building: Support development of team and organisational 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 organisational 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, CMC or Operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Business or related field; or equivalent by experience.
• Experience leading enterprise level transformation programmes 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 standardisation and optimisation, especially in regulated or highly cross functional environments.
• Experience designing and facilitating capability building or organisational development programmes.

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.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary ranges: United States - $173,250 to $288,750 (depending on location), Italy - €88,500 to €147,500, Belgium - €117,000 to €195,000.
• Annual bonus and eligibility to participate in share based long term incentive programme.
• Benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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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