Senior, AI Product Manager (Process Development Science)

1054 GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited; Greater London, Stevenage, Ware; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline plc in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior AI Product Manager within Process Development Science to shape how AI transforms our drug development platforms and workflows—from discovery through manufacturing—delivering measurable outcomes that matter to patients.

You will partner with forward deployed engineers, analytics teams and R&D Tech to identify opportunities, size value, prototype hands‑on, and drive end‑to‑end delivery with sponsor alignment and a 10x improvement mindset.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in pharma/Life sciences, AI/ML product or strategy roles.
• Ability to translate complex problems into structured opportunities with defensible business cases.
• Working knowledge of process modeling, manufacturing, and lab content in R&D.
• Experience redesigning business platform thinking for drug modalities such as oligonucleotides, ADCs or monoclonal antibodies.

Responsibilities

• Surface and size AI opportunities across engagements; build credible value cases.
• Prioritize work based on evidence; plan scope per sprint.
• Partner with FDE pods; translate ambiguity into clear statements and success metrics.
• Run sponsor sessions; maintain confidence with concise updates and risk calls.
• Track value realization and feed learnings back into scoping and delivery.

Skills

AI Platforms

Change Management

Data Analysis

Feature Prioritization

ML Platforms

Model Evaluation

Product Roadmapping

Roadmap Development

Statistical Analysis

User Needs Analysis

Product Delivery

PLM

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field is advantageous

Job description

Senior, AI Product Manager (Process Development Science)

About GSK Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI is GSK’s centre of gravity for applied artificial intelligence. We pair forward deployed engineers and full‑stack engineers with scientific, clinical, and business teams to build AI products that get used — not pilots that get archived. We work fast, ship in production, and measure ourselves on outcomes that matter to patients. GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team — we welcome candidates from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups in technology, science, and pharma.

Position Summary

GSK’s Enterprise AI team translates the promise of AI into measurable impact across drug discovery, development, manufacturing, and commercial. Forward deployed teams embed directly with scientific and business teams to build AI products that change outcomes. This specific role sites in the Chemical Manufacturing & Control (CMC) area. This is the GSK function that turns a validated molecule into a reliably manufactured, quality‑assured medicine; its mission is to get safe, effective, consistently manufactured medicines to patients, faster. Its current mission is to double New Product Introductions (NPIs). As a Senior AI Product Manager, you’ll help shape how AI transforms GSK’s process development around the world: identifying where it will deliver the greatest value and keeping our teams always focused on the highest‑impact opportunities. You’ll partner closely with business stakeholders to prioritize opportunities based on feasibility and value. You’ll take a complex business problem, structure it, size the value, prototype hands‑on, and turn it into something a forward deployed engineer (FDE) can build against. You will run the day‑to‑day AI opportunities in the process development science for R&D. You will redesign the business platform thinking for oligonucleotides (oligos), antibody‑drug conjugates (ADCs) and monoclonal antibodies, and foster our self‑driving labs initiatives to automate the physical space. This will support in silico modeling and platform fitness, especially in a 10x transformation. You will work hand in hand with the data analytics team in process science and partner with the R&D Tech teams, and our shared focus is to bring a 10x change in the way we do modeling, optimization, agentic workflows, document authoring and physical AI for simulation. You bring creativity grounded in the business reality and the AI art of the possible, with the execution mastery to deliver measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Opportunity Identification & Value Sizing
  Surface and size AI opportunities across your assigned engagements and adjacent business units; produce one‑page opportunity briefs that are easy to compare and prioritize. Build credible value cases with finance‑grade reasoning behind cycle time saved, decisions accelerated, revenue uplift, or cost avoided. Develop hands‑on domain knowledge in your engagement areas — workflows, data, decisions, and the people who own them.
• Strategic Prioritization & Portfolio Shaping
  Recommend what to start, continue, and stop across your engagements based on evidence, not enthusiasm. Sequence work for impact. Help engineering leads decide what is in scope this sprint, what is next, and what is out.
• Engineering Partnership & Enablement
  Be the day‑to‑day strategic partner to FDE pods. Convert business ambiguity into crisp problem statements, success metrics, and decision frameworks engineers can act on. Run engagement structure end‑to‑end. Scope, success criteria, exit conditions, scaling pathways — drafted, agreed, and revisited. Spot reusable patterns that should become platform capability instead of point solutions.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Communication
  Operate fluently with Director‑level business and scientific stakeholders. Run working sessions that move things forward and produce decisions, not just notes. Maintain sponsor confidence with concise updates, honest risk calls, and clear asks.
• Measurement, Learning & Iteration
  Track value realization on each engagement against the case you wrote up front. Capture lessons rigorously and feed them back into how the team scopes the next engagement.

Required Experience

• Strong progressive experience in some combination of pharma/life sciences, AI/ML product, product management, or strategy roles in technology‑led organisations.
• A track record of taking complex, ambiguous business problems and turning them into structured, sized opportunities with defensible business cases.
• Working knowledge of process modeling, manufacturing and laboratory content in R&D, including how decisions actually get made on the ground.
• Proven experience redesigning the business platform thinking for drug modalities such as oligonucleotides, antibody‑drug conjugates (ADCs) and monoclonal antibodies.
• Proven experience identifying opportunities in self‑driving labs to automate the physical space, and across in silico modeling and platform fitness, and shaping them to deliver a 10x change.
• Proven experience designing the strategy of multi‑initiative workstreams: capturing opportunities embedded in the business, sizing value, and owning outcome‑based delivery.
• Comfortable technical fluency in modern AI/ML — enough to design realistic engagements with engineers and avoid hype‑driven choices.
• Strong individual contributor instincts — you produce quality artefacts, not status updates.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in process development or manufacturing for oligonucleotides, ADCs or monoclonal antibodies.
• Experience with self‑driving labs and lab automation of the physical space, in silico modeling, or platform fitness products and programs.
• Experience working with data analytics, data science, or process science teams to bring a 10x change in modeling, optimization, and simulation.
• Experience in regulated industries (pharma, healthcare, financial services) and familiarity with good practice regulations (GxP) and data‑governance constraints.
• Experience in process development or manufacturing for oligonucleotides, ADCs or monoclonal antibodies.
• Experience with self‑driving labs and lab automation of the physical space, in silico modeling, or platform fitness products and programs.
• Experience working with data analytics, data science, or process science teams to bring a 10x change in modeling, optimization, and simulation.
• Experience in regulated industries (pharma, healthcare, financial services) and familiarity with good practice regulations (GxP) and data‑governance constraints.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field is advantageous.

Skills

• AI Platforms
• Change Management
• Data Analysis
• Feature Prioritization
• Machine Learning Model Management
• ML Platforms
• Model Evaluation
• Performance Analysis
• Product Delivery
• Product Design
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Product Roadmapping
• Roadmap Development
• Statistical Analysis
• User Needs Analysis

Working Pattern

This is a UK based hybrid role, with a min of 2/3 days a week onsite. Fully remote working is not available.

Closing Date: 13th November 2026

Locations

1) HQ Central London or 2) Stevenage - This role can be temporarily be based at Stevenage location. However, the Company plans to relocate its offices to Ware, UK. The location of this role will therefore subsequently change to Ware, UK in accordance with timelines to be set by the Company.

What we value

You are practical, inclusive and open to feedback. You bring technical understanding and strong empathy for users. You work in active voice and keep communication simple. You support colleagues and help teams make confident, evidence‑based decisions. You want to grow your product and security skills while delivering outcomes that matter.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale. People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people. GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are. Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at [e-mail] where you can also request a call. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/ agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ We are 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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. 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 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. Find out more on our career site.