Director of AI Transformation & Enablement

GSK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking an AI Transformation and Enablement Director to define how agentic AI becomes the way Development Operations delivers high-quality work. You will shape the multi-year strategy and roadmap, and build the investment foundation behind it.

You will lead adoption and drive exponential machine capability across the function, influencing operating models, tooling choices, and governance with senior stakeholders in R&D and enterprise teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Strong and proven experience in Pharma strategy, applied AI or technology, or transformation, gained at a top-tier strategy consultancy, a lea...

Responsibilities

• Drive the agentic AI transformation and enablement strategy for Development Operations, its multi-year roadmap and the prioritisation across it, anchored to measurable clinical trial outcomes.
• Build and defend the investment case for transformation at scale, with clear ROI and payback logic, and enforce stage-gate discipline, including the call to stop or reshape what does not demonstrate value.
• Own what widespread agentic adoption and exponentially increasing machine capability mean for how Development Operations is organised: where work sits, which roles change, and how the function operates.
• Define which processes get fundamentally reinvented rather than automated as they stand.
• Carry those changes with functional leaders as their peer, so that adoption changes how the work is actually done.
• Hold the view on which agentic tooling Development Operations should be using, across frontier labs, open-weight and locally run models, judged on adoption, enablement, cost, output quality and compliant deployment.
• Make frontier agentic tools routine practice across every group, and set the direction for the learning and capability teams and the Champion Network that deliver it.
• Act as Development Operations' named counterpart into the R&D-wide and enterprise agentic AI agenda, securing the sponsorship that scaled deployment needs and setting the deployment approach with the enterprise teams behind it.
• Leaders across Development Operations and R&D: shape strategy and priorities, secure sponsorship, and agree what changes in the operating model as adoption lands.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field

Job description

GSK is seeking an AI Transformation and Enablement Director to define how agentic AI becomes the way Development Operations delivers high-quality work. You will shape the multi-year strategy and roadmap, and build the investment foundation behind it.

You will lead adoption and drive exponential machine capability across the function, influencing operating models, tooling choices, and governance with senior stakeholders in R&D and enterprise teams.