Job Abstract

The Director, Strategic Projects Lead & LT Facilitator will effectively act as a chief of staff for the SVP, R&D Digital & Tech - supporting many aspects of leading the team, ensuring that the sum of the parts of RDDT operates more effectively as a whole.

The Director, Strategic Projects Lead & LT Facilitator will have these critical ongoing accountabilities:

• Support the SVP in day-to-day execution (in a manner consistent with requirements for a running a strong delivery-focused R&D Digital & Tech function supporting R&D in a significant digital and data ambition) and in day-to-day prioritization (working with assistant to ensure forward looking prioritisation, including alignment to delivery dates).

  • Includes managing requests from Office of the Chief Scientific Officer and Office of the Chief Digital and Tech Officer and priority ad hoc projects on a range of topics such as data governance and cybersecurity.

• Facilitate RD Digital and Tech LT meetings and interactions to drive the SVP’s operational and strategic agenda

• Oversee strategic initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads. For example, strategic D&T programs such as Journey 2 Cloud etc.

• Continuous improvement of D&T ways of working

• Strategy alignment and centralized reporting: Orchestrate streamlined reporting as required to RDLT, CDTO, GLT and the Board, working with relevant CDTO, R&D and comms teams.

  • Support in the development and delivery of key Board documents, proof points of value.

  • Collaborate with R&D to manage key relationships and build a process to enable joint objectives between the CSO and CDTO.

• Culture & Engagement – lead team to implement culture and engagement best practices across R&D D&T

• Orchestrate talent and people processes across RDDT

• Compliance and audit planning: lead proactive and strategic approach to managing R&D D&T audit schedule and ensuring compliance both internally and externally with audit requirements.

How:

• Work very closely with SVP RDDT in day-to-day execution

• Drive a culture of ’do what matters most’ in all day-to-day interactions, including data driven decision making

• Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications

• Standing in on meetings as needed for Head of R&D Digital & Tech Portfolio

• Challenge ideas and offering a different perspective, and following up on action items with the team accordingly

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years’ experience (e.g. R&D, Commercial, Corporate, GMS) and / or exposure to product management in a major global IT organization.

• Experience with IT strategy development, solution design, programme and project delivery and service management, across multiple business lines.

• Experience delivering business impact through process and IT enabled solutions, across multiple business lines.

• Experience of Agile

• Experience of vendor management.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Deep content knowledge of GSK R&D or D&T domain.

• Experience of engaging to align on strategies and following through on strategy deployments.

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