SRM Portfolio Business Partner

GSK; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a SRM Portfolio Business Partner to provide strategic, portfolio-wide insights on resource allocation across R&D. You will couple with the Head SRM and senior leaders to align capacity with portfolio priorities, using AI analytics to surface constraints and drive governance discussions.

In this role, you will broker trade-offs across functions and geographies, deliver real-time resourcing visibility, and champion the adoption of dashboards and predictive models to improve

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the life sciences industry.
• Extensive experience in R&D with global resource management.
• Experience linking resources and financial with portfolio management; exposure to AI/analytics is a plus.
• Prior matrix team leadership experience and ability to motivate staff.
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders across R&D and external environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide portfolio-wide view of FTE resources across Assets and Projects to enable insights for optimal allocation.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align strategic priorities with resource plans, highlighting risks and trade-offs.
• Deliver a single, trusted portfolio-wide view of FTE capacity to enable interrogation and optimization.
• Surface constraints across R&D and identify upcoming capacity gaps proactively.
• Model scenarios using AI/analytics and flag crunch points down to the role level.

Skills

R&D experience

Data analytics

AI/analytics exposure

Matrix leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Planisware

Job description

SRM Portfolio Business Partner

Business Introduction

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Position Summary

Provide cross-portfolio strategic insight into resource allocation and constraints so R&D headcount capacity is deployed proactively, matched to portfolio priorities and value creation, rather than managed reactively at the individual project or function level.

Partner with the R&D wide organization to provide portfolio wide visibility of demand v capacity data, surface constraints proactively and model scenarios to mitigate gaps. With the Head; SRM, broker trade-off discussions with RDLT and other senior stakeholders, across functions and RUs to provide resourcing insights into investment and governance decisions.

Responsibilities

• Providing a single, trusted, portfolio-wide view of FTE resource and capacity data, across all Assets and Projects, that allows for the provision and interrogation of data to generate and share the insights and information needed to optimise FTE resources across the portfolio.
• Partnering with senior stakeholders (RDLT/SVPs/VPs) RUs, Functions, Finance and Portfolio Decision Sciences leaders to align strategic priorities to resource plans, highlighting risks and constraints and insights on trade-offs linked to the portfolio.
• Give portfolio-wide FTE visibility : deliver "a single, trusted, portfolio-wide view of FTE resource and capacity data, across all Assets and Projects" so leaders can interrogate and share insights to optimise FTE allocation
• Surface constraints proactively : the role is meant to ensure "across all of R&D our resources are optimized for delivery," identify "any constraints to that delivery," and do so proactively rather than reactively
• Model scenarios and flag gaps : use AI/analytics to "run portfolio-wide scenario planning," pull functional and Research Unit resourcing positions against demand, and flag "crunch points down to role level" and "upcoming capacity gaps" across the whole R&D portfolio.
• Broker trade-offs : align FTE resources to the portfolio's top-priority projects across functions, business units, and geographies, brokering trade-offs where capacity is constrained.
• Inform governance decisions : feed these headcount/capacity insights into key investment and governance forums (dPR, SPR, PIB, QPR), acting as the trusted adviser on resourcing matters at that level
• Using AI and data analytics to run portfolio-wide scenario planning and pull together functional and Research Unit (RU) resourcing positions against demand; surfacing crunch points down to role level and flagging upcoming capacity gaps across the entire R&D portfolio.
• Championing the adoption of AI and analytics tools - dashboards, predictive models and automation - to give leadership real-time resourcing visibility.

Qualifications/Skills

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of this industry
• Extensive experience in R&D with relevant experience of implementing and a global resource management framework
• Experience linking resources and financial with portfolio management, with exposure to AI, data science or advanced analytics approaches being an advantage
• Previous matrix team experience is essential, line management experience preferred.
• Proven leader able to motivate staff to consistently deliver performance objectives
• Self-directed and highly motivated, able to understand where to apply efforts to achieve the most significant business outcome. Feels strong sense of ownership of the key objectives of team
• Proven ability to operate at multiple levels across the organization, and successfully achieve complex business outcomes, prioritize demand on staff and remove barriers. A high degree of personal ownership of these goals is essential
• Must be able to constructively challenge and influence with mastery, credibly engaging with key stakeholders within R&D and GSK but also with experts in the external environment
• Build strategic resource management capability to industry leading edge level and proactively move the team and organization forward
• Highest standard of data integrity, compliance and quality mindset. Strong analytical skills, interpersonal skills and communication skills are essential.
• Superior customer orientation

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP or similar certification, Planisware (sche