Director, Global Product Discovery

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Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, GSK HQ
Posted Date: Dec

The Global Digital Products & Advanced Analytics team, within the global commercial CX and Data group (a.k.a Digital Fuel), is driving a fundamental transformation building new Digital and AI capabilities.

The Director of Global Product Discovery plays a key role in leading the team who will be transforming how global commercial functions at GSK leverage digital and AI capabilities to solve their key business problems. The team will be accountable for leading rapid prototyping, early discovery, and development of solutions for stakeholders across global business functions such as Market Access, Strategic Insights, and Commercial Capabilities teams for Global Commercial. Success will require close partnership with data science, engineering, and other technical colleagues to deliver a comprehensive and diverse portfolio of digital and AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Creating business value through digital and AI solutions for global commercial functions:

1. Deliver business value through the rapid application of novel digital and AI solutions, leveraging GSK's decision science, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence capabilities.
2. Encourage experimentation and innovation, with principles in place to promote effective and impactful use of resources to ensure we are problem-solving across critical, unmet business needs.
3. Assess desirability, feasibility, and viability of both existing early solutions and new opportunities to ensure constant prioritization and impactful delivery.
4. Iterate and enhance key in-flight solutions.

Fostering strong stakeholder relationships through collaboration:

1. Foster relationships across diverse business functions, creating a one-stop shop for global commercial functions to go to when tackling opportunities to be solved with digital and data capabilities.
2. Collaborate with colleagues across Digital and Tech to avoid duplication of effort, create community of practices, and future-proof solutions for scale and maturity.
3. Translate the complex to the simple, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams to drive co-creation of solutions.

Driving focused delivery through team leadership:

1. Lead team of direct reports and matrix partners (e.g., data scientists, data engineers) to deliver solutions, from proof-of-concept phase through industrialization.
2. Develop and articulate the strategic vision across global commercial solutions and discovery portfolio.
3. Drive focus in team by ensuring members are leveraging consistent methodology, resourcing, and governance of solutions and use cases.
4. Foster a collaborative and high-performing team dynamic.

Why You? Basic Qualifications:

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

1. Bachelor's Degree
2. 10+ years of experience in leading strategy and implementation of novel digital initiatives
3. Experience in early product development, from ideation to experimentation to scale
4. Experience leading people and teams in a matrixed environment

Preferred Qualifications:

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

1. Master's Degree
2. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
3. Experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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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