Director, Autonomous Manufacturing AI

GSK; Alabama; Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Staff (Director) AI Product Manager for Manufacturing to own the AI portfolio and drive autonomous manufacturing across sites. You will shape the vision, back strategic use cases, and scale programs from training content to production scheduling, partnering with site leadership to deliver measurable impact.

You bring hands-on manufacturing experience, strong execution discipline, and the ability to lead change across complex environments, aligned with GSK's commitment to patient

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in technology, product management, business, or life sciences.
• 12+ years of experience across pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated manufacturing, and AI/ML, digital, or product leadership roles.
• Experience working at, or directly supporting, a manufacturing production site.
• Experience with AI technologies such as LLMs, agentic systems, optimisation and scheduling methods, or the ML lifecycle.
• Experience delivering AI or digital initiatives from problem framing through production deployment.
• Experience leading change management in operational environments.
• Experience building business cases for manufacturing or operations initiatives.
• Experience as a trusted partner to senior business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define, with leadership, what autonomous manufacturing means for GSK sites, the target state by area, and a staged, funded roadmap.
• Scale the autonomous training content and workforce optimisation programmes to multi-site outcomes.
• Build the case for autonomous production scheduling and other processes, and move the strongest candidates into delivery.
• Make capabilities built at one site reusable across the network.
• Quickly assess use cases on value, data readiness, feasibility, compliance, and site appetite.
• Build finance-ready business cases on throughput, OEE, schedule adherence, right-first-time, labour productivity, training cycle time, and cost avoided.
• Own a living view of in-flight opportunities with clear rationale, feeding the Enterprise AI portfolio.
• Lead engagements end-to-end with FDE and engineering pods, from scope and success criteria through deployment and hand-over.
• Set milestones, manage dependencies across site, IT/OT, quality, and engineering, and clear blockers from prototype to production.
• Make trade-offs when sponsors compete for capacity, and push back on non-moving work.
• Build relationships with site, operations, quality, engineering, and learning leaders.
• Co-own change management, from stakeholder mapping to training and adoption tracking.
• Tailor approaches by site’s processes, culture, systems, and data.
• Coach Senior AI Product Managers on opportunity selection and engagement design.

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

Roadmapping

Statistical Analysis

User Needs Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in technology, product management, business, or life sciences

Job description

GSK is seeking a Staff (Director) AI Product Manager for Manufacturing to own the AI portfolio and drive autonomous manufacturing across sites. You will shape the vision, back strategic use cases, and scale programs from training content to production scheduling, partnering with site leadership to deliver measurable impact.

You bring hands-on manufacturing experience, strong execution discipline, and the ability to lead change across complex environments, aligned with GSK's commitment to patient