Autonomous Manufacturing AI Product Lead

GlaxoSmithKline plc; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 130,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Paid holidays

Share-based incentive program

Job summary

GSK’s Enterprise AI team seeks a Staff (Director) AI Product Manager for Manufacturing to own the manufacturing AI portfolio and shape the autonomous manufacturing vision. You will partner with site and network leadership to back high-impact use cases, see them delivered, adopted, and scaled across multi-site operations.

You will scale programmes like training content management and production-floor workforce allocation, and explore autonomous production scheduling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in technology, product management, business, or life sciences.

Responsibilities

• Define, with leadership, what autonomous manufacturing means for GSK sites, the target state by area, and a staged, funded roadmap.
• Scale the autonomous training content and workforce optimisation programmes to multi-site outcomes.
• Build the case for autonomous production scheduling and other processes, and move the strongest candidates into delivery.
• Make capabilities built at one site reusable across the network.
• Quickly assess use cases on value, data readiness, feasibility, compliance, and site appetite, and kill weak ideas early.
• Build finance-ready business cases on throughput, OEE, schedule adherence, right-first-time, labour productivity, training cycle time, and cost avoided.
• Own a living view of in-flight, queued, and de-prioritised opportunities with clear rationale, feeding the Enterprise AI portfolio
• Lead engagements end-to-end with FDE and engineering pods, from scope and success criteria through deployment and hand-over.
• Set milestones, manage dependencies across site, IT/OT, quality, and engineering, and clear blockers from prototype to production.
• Make trade-offs when sponsors compete for capacity, and push back on work that won’t move outcomes.
• Build lasting relationships with site, operations, quality, engineering, and learning leaders, and help shape their agenda.
• Co-own change management, from stakeholder mapping and process redesign to training and adoption tracking, so the floor trusts the new way of working.
• Quickly read each site’s processes, culture, systems, and data, and tailor the approach accordingly.
• Coach Senior AI Product Managers on opportunity selection, value cases, and engagement design.
• Engage VP and site leaders, linking AI progress to manufacturing and patient outcomes clearly and honestly.
• Track value realisation against each engagement’s original case using Enterprise AI’s framework, and refine the framework as you learn.
• Run honest post-mortems and feed lessons into how opportunities are selected, delivered, and scaled.

Skills

AI platforms

Change management

Data analysis

Feature prioritization

ML model management

ML platforms

Model evaluation

Performance analysis

Product delivery

Product design

Product lifecycle management

Product roadmapping

Roadmap development

Statistical analysis

User needs analysis

Job description

GSK’s Enterprise AI team seeks a Staff (Director) AI Product Manager for Manufacturing to own the manufacturing AI portfolio and shape the autonomous manufacturing vision. You will partner with site and network leadership to back high-impact use cases, see them delivered, adopted, and scaled across multi-site operations.

You will scale programmes like training content management and production-floor workforce allocation, and explore autonomous production scheduling.