Business Operations Director

1 month ago


Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom GSK Full time

The Business Operations Director is a key role that partners with functional leaders to mobilize people, time, and resources for maximum impact. This role acts as a dynamic glue, identifying, defining, organizing, and accelerating operational activities across GMASE and GCO that are critical to delivering the R&D strategy.

This position supports the implementation of the function's strategy to deliver medicines and vaccines to patients. You'll drive the function's performance through the application of efficient and effective operational processes and support acceleration activities and key projects.

As the Business Operations Director, you will be responsible for providing close support and thought partnership to the function's senior leader (VP level who works across many countries and cultures). Responsibilities include driving the implementation and monitoring of the department strategy and operational plans, organizing and enabling maximum effectiveness of the leadership team.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to lead key activities to support the effective running of parts of the Precision Medicine business, working in close collaboration with other business operations support.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Drive the implementation and monitoring of the department strategy and operational plans
  • Organize and enable maximum effectiveness of the leadership team
  • Provide close support and thought partnership to the function's senior leader
  • Lead key activities to support the effective running of parts of the Precision Medicine business

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree required with minimum of 5 years of pharmaceutical experience
  • 5+ years project leadership and management skills
  • 5+ years working with change management approaches on a range of projects/programs at multiple organizational levels including VP level and above
  • 5+ years' experience creating/using data analytics to drive performance

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced Degree, preferably in sciences or Business Administration
  • Highly motivated, agile & adept learning ability

About GSK:

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. 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).



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