R&D Data & AI Director — Strategy, Hands-on AI & Governance

GSK; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK in the United Kingdom seeks a Director of Data & Data Science, Development Data, to own strategy, organization, and delivery of data and data science capabilities across R&D. The role combines senior leadership with hands-on coding and building agentic AI systems that support trusted data insights with human oversight.

You will shape multi-year roadmaps, oversee a portfolio of R&D data categories, manage budgets and partnerships, and set governance standards.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a data, analytics, or data science organization in a regulated environment.
• Experience leading leaders who own significant scope.
• Track record of setting and executing a multi-year data and data science strategy.
• Technical credibility in data engineering and data science.

Responsibilities

• Shape the R&D data and data science strategy - define an ambitious multi-year vision and translate it into a focused roadmap across all R&D Data Categories.
• Lead the R&D Data Category portfolio - ensure every category has clear ownership, a healthy roadmap, and measurable scientific or business value.
• Direct investment and priorities - balance engineering, data science, platform capacity, technical debt, governance, and innovation across the portfolio.
• Build and develop an outstanding TDPO organization - set clear expectations, resolve cross-category trade-offs, and lead hiring, organizational design, and career development.
• Champion engineering and data science excellence - embed shared standards, strong review practices, and vibrant communities of practice.
• Safeguard data governance and compliance - drive consistent quality, metadata, access controls, privacy, and audit readiness across R&D data.
• Set the data science and AI agenda - partner with senior scientific leaders to identify, sponsor, and unlock the highest-value opportunities.
• Create and scale agentic AI data science - personally build systems that explore data, test hypotheses, run analyses, and generate trusted insights with appropriate human oversight.
• Steward technology, funding, and partnerships - shape architecture and tooling, build compelling investment cases, manage budgets, and oversee key supplier relationships.
• Be the voice of the function - influence senior R&D and Enterprise Data & AI leaders and communicate portfolio health, adoption, risk, capacity, and value delivered.

Skills

Data leadership

Regulated environment

Strategy development

Hands-on coding

Agentic AI

Executive communication

Portfolio management

Data governance

Job description

GSK in the United Kingdom seeks a Director of Data & Data Science, Development Data, to own strategy, organization, and delivery of data and data science capabilities across R&D. The role combines senior leadership with hands-on coding and building agentic AI systems that support trusted data insights with human oversight.

You will shape multi-year roadmaps, oversee a portfolio of R&D data categories, manage budgets and partnerships, and set governance standards.