Senior Manager, Product Owner Real World Data

Come join us as we supercharge GSK's data capability!

At GSK we are building a best-in-class data and prediction powered team that is ambitious for patients. As R&D enters a new era of data driven science, we are building a data engineering capability to ensure we have high quality data captured with context and aligned data models, so that the data is useable and reusable for a variety of use cases.

GSK R&D and Digital and Tech's collective goal is to deliver business impact, including the acceleration of the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines to patients.

GSK Development and Development Digital & Tech are in the final stages of delivering on a multiyear investment aimed at modernizing the clinical development landscape. In order to ensure we maximize the value of the data we generate using these new systems in combination with the data assets we acquire externally, new teams in both the R&D Development and Development Digital & Tech organizations are being established to focus on the governance and design.

The Real World Data Product Owner is accountable for designing and delivering the roadmap that will improve the user experience for the products within their domain and support the strategic priorities. Each Product Owner will work collaboratively with stakeholders to agree on priorities within their domain and build plans to deliver against those priorities.

The Product Owner will have ownership and responsibility for the products within the respective product set. Main business roles who are consumers of the capabilities supported are the Real World Data Modelling and Analytics Leaders and Analysts, Real World Data Strategy and Partnership Leaders, Therapy Area Leaders, RWD Analysts, Data Scientists and Owners. Tools aligned to this area would focus on comprehensive suite of advanced tools in a high performance analytical environment, self-service analytical and visualization tools that enable rapid analytics, Knowledge Management systems that provide visibility into RWD, govern access to it, streamline processes to generate RWE, and/or improve knowledge-sharing and collaboration and AI/ML workbench to help scientists collaborate on developing, training and deploying AI and ML models.

The Product Owner is recognized as the go to leader and trusted advisor for their product set - removing blockers, working collaboratively and adaptively to constantly meet the needs of their customers and deliver value to GSK.

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

• Technology Strategy & Enablement: in the role of trusted advisor, strong domain knowledge including business process, industry best practices, in market solutions
• Demand management: Collaborate with business stakeholders to manage and prioritize the product backlog to produce the product set with the highest business value. Accountable for the product backlog and product cost forecast.
• Governance: Establish business value, manage delivery and service performance and manage business risk within the scope of their product. Responsible for representing the product in governance boards such as Steering and Design Authority.
• Product/Project Delivery: Design and deliver the optimal set of products and services which meets the business strategy and requirements. Accountable for creation and execution of the product roadmap. May complete hands on configuration, providing detailed designs and wider impact assessments. The ability to think big picture and customer first is imperative.
• Quality, Risk & Compliance: Accountable for ensuring all products within the domain are compliant with internal security and risk management policies and practices, as well as external regulatory and statutory requirements e.g. GxP and that Tech continuity plans are in place for all critical products.
• Feature Definition: Proven ability to translate customer requests, competitive activities, and industry trends into value drivers of new technology solutions and product requirements that can be easily understood by product teams, developers and other key constituencies within the organization.
• Service Management: Responsible for ensuring any changes are delivered in accordance to the services levels that are in place, to ensure adherence to those SLAs, and directly managing any Level 3 support issues and escalations. Accountable for Lifecycle Management of the product.
• People Management: Will work in collaboration with the broader team to drive and deliver business value to tight timelines adhering to the release management calendar where applicable. Depending on team structure, the incumbent will matrix or line manage the team
• Adoption strategy & change management: in the role of change agent, support both the product teams and the business in agile approaches to solution development and adoption, building excitement, momentum, visible success stories and clear value based versions of vision as roadmap plans come to life

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• B.S. Degree - Technical degree or life sciences.
• 3 years experience in pharma R&D setting with understanding of the clinical development process, phases of development, and decision frameworks for progressing biopharmaceutical assets
• 2 years experience with Real World Data and Real World Evidence technologies and processes
• Experience with CFR 21 Part 11 compliance and good clinical practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Advanced Degree in computer science, management of information systems, or life sciences.
• Track record in successful Tech strategy development, solution design, programme and product delivery, service and vendor management
• Track record in delivering business impact through process and Tech enabled solutions
• Excellent relationship management, strong influencing and communication skills
• Deep content knowledge of respective functional area (business operating models, processes & products)
• Knowledge and assessment of emerging trends (both functional and technical) within domain
• Experience and proven track record of working as part of agile development teams
• Strong facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills, ability to influence sr. leadership and decision-making using data, market evidence
• Relentless for delivering business outcomes and value and simplification with a passion for science and advancing medicines to patients

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