Product Director, Platform Governance & Strategy

Overview:

Are you passionate about making impactful contributions to the world of medicines and vaccines? GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) invites you to join our dynamic R&D Digital and Tech Team as a Director-Veeva Platform Governance & Strategy. In this pivotal role, you will drive the vision and roadmap for the evolution of GSK's Veeva platform, ensuring our processes across Regulatory, Clinical, Quality, and Commercial functions are streamlined and efficient.

About R&D Digital & Tech and Regulatory at GSK:

At GSK R&D, we are driven by an ambitious goal to expedite submission cycle times and enhance submission quality across over 160 markets. Our investment in a cutting-edge Veeva-based platform is a testament to our commitment to excellence. This platform is an integral part of a comprehensive Veeva ecosystem, supporting the entire development process. GSK stays dedicated to influencing Veeva's roadmap and extracting maximum value from our investments.

Job Purpose:

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing cross-platform tech governance to ensure alignment with the Business CoE. You will collaborate with business leaders across Regulatory, Clinical, Quality, and Commercial functions to ensure effective governance and alignment with business needs. Additionally, you will influence and contribute to the development of the Veeva platform roadmap to ensure it aligns with business goals and technological advancements. As the primary point of contact for PMO and strategic operations within the Veeva CoE, you will manage finance, budgets, and drive unification across various functions. You will also oversee demand management, user access management, and ensure effective training and adoption of Veeva platforms across the organization. Providing oversight for Critical Pipeline support services is also a key responsibility. By fostering collaboration, removing blockers, and consistently meeting customer needs, you will deliver substantial value to GSK.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee cross-platform tech governance, ensuring alignment with Business CoE.

• Influence and contribute to the development of the Veeva platform roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business goals and technological advancements.

• Partner with business leaders across Regulatory, Clinical, Quality, and Commercial functions to ensure effective governance and alignment with business needs.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for PMO and strategic operations within the Veeva CoE, managing finance, budgets, and driving unification across various functions.

• Oversee demand management, user access management, and ensure effective training and adoption of Veeva platforms across the organization.

• Provide oversight for Critical Pipeline support services

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or 15+ years of direct and relevant professional experience.

• Experience with at least one Veeva Product.

• Experience delivering business impact through IT-enabled solutions in a life sciences context, with a background in product ownership and PMO.

• Experienced in PMO, finance and resource management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Veeva white belt certification.

• Experience with Veeva Products.

• Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership.

• A relentless focus on delivering business value and simplification, with a passion for advancing science and medicines.

• Experience managing team in a GxP context, with the ability to partner with various stakeholders and vendors.

• Strategic thinking, execution capabilities, and the ability to influence software partners and challenge business partners.

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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 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.

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