CTO Functional Strategy Lead | AI & Roadmap Alignment

GSK plc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK plc is seeking a CTO Functional Strategy Manager to translate the global strategy into a concrete DPTF function plan. You will co-create a north star with architecture, align with the technology roadmap, and engage leadership to shape the function's direction.

The role involves leading strategy workshops, producing executive materials, and embedding AI-enabled insights into strategy and planning for a hybrid US delivery model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Technology, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years in strategy, technology strategy, consulting, operating model design or a comparable planning role.
• Experience developing functional or business strategy within a large and complex organisation.
• Experience translating enterprise strategy into objectives and OKRs for a function.
• Experience synthesizing complex information into a clear position for leaders to act on.
• Experience scanning market and technology developments and assessing relevance to an organisation.
• Experience engaging and influencing senior leaders across boundaries, including strategy workshops and leadership reviews.
• Experience producing executive level strategy materials and narrative.
• Familiarity with AI tools applied to research, synthesis and strategy material

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the DPTF functional strategy, translating GSK's strategy and its digital and technology priorities into what the function needs to be and to do.
• Co-create the north star vision for DPTF with the Chief Architect and domain leads, so the destination is shared.
• Align the functional strategy to the technology strategy and roadmap owned by the Chief Architect.
• Scan the market and state of the art and bring matters into the strategy with relevance to GSK.
• Translate strategy into functional objectives and OKRs and maintain strategic planning cadence.
• Assess major initiatives against the north star and raise misalignments through governance.
• Communicate DPTF's strategy to leadership across GSK with clear materials and narrative.
• Engage leaders to understand needs and feed requirements back into strategy and planning.
• Facilitate strategy workshops and leadership reviews with architecture and domain leadership in the room.
• Develop strategic recommendations and options for leadership review and prepare briefing materials.
• Embed reliability and AI acceleration ambitions into the functional strategy and initiatives.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, synthesis and strategy material preparation.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Cross-Functional Teamwork

Data Analysis

Design Thinking

DevOps

Prioritization

Product Development Research

Product Roadmapping

Project Management

Return on Investment (ROI)

Software Development

Strategy Deployment

User Experience (UX)

User Interface (UI) Design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Technology, Economics, Engineering, or a related field

Job description

GSK plc is seeking a CTO Functional Strategy Manager to translate the global strategy into a concrete DPTF function plan. You will co-create a north star with architecture, align with the technology roadmap, and engage leadership to shape the function's direction.

The role involves leading strategy workshops, producing executive materials, and embedding AI-enabled insights into strategy and planning for a hybrid US delivery model.