VP, DEVOPS and CMO Digital & Tech

GSK; Upper Providence (Delaware County); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking the Vice President of DEVOPS & CMO Digital & Tech to drive the integrated transformation across Tech, Digital, Data and Analytics for DEVOPS and CMO within R&D. You will align clinical, biostatistics, medical, regulatory and quality systems on a common platform and enable digital solutions to accelerate medicines and vaccines.

The role requires strategic vision, coaching of leaders, and the ability to partner with external partners to deliver enterprise-scale, compliant technology

Responsibilities

• Single point of accountability for DEVOPS and CMO tech leadership to global operations.
• Leads technology, data and analytics strategy development with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partners with external consortiums to establish cloud-based data exchange between sponsors and health authorities.
• Ensures compliance, security and scalability in a heavily regulated environment.

Skills

DevSecOps

Agile delivery

Data strategy

Leadership

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

The Vice President of DEVOPS & CMO Digital & Tech is a transformation tech leader who will drive forward the integrated transformation strategy on Tech, Digital, Data, and Analytics for GSK's Development Operations (DEVOPS) and CMO functions within R&D. In this role you will be responsible for integrating clinical, biostatistics, clinical sciences, medical, regulatory, and quality systems (MedRegQ) across medicines and vaccines on a common Tech platform. You will also work to enable digital, data, and analytics solutions which will accelerate Development to best in the industry achieving cycle time reductions and significant cost improvements.

The role is focused on delivering technology, digital, data and analytics strategy and solutions to the DEVOPS and CMO functions globally, and leveraging technology, data and advanced analytics to drive clinical trial and regulatory efficiencies and effectiveness. The role is a key advisor to drive digital solutions including business as usual, reinvention, and disruption.

VP, DEVOPS and CMO Digital & Tech

The role will join R&D Digital & Tech LT, DEVOPS LT, and CMO LT and lead continuous improvement of our product orientated capabilities (agile delivery, DevSecOps), obtaining full potential out of 3rd party strategic partners. The leadership role builds future leaders and provides coaching and support for direct reports who will join R&D leadership teams, including DEVOPS/CMO D&T LT.

You will be responsible for delivering significant strategic programs and oversee the delivery being executed by a combination of internal and external delivery teams. Technology is business critical for R&D from both a compliance perspective an enabler to accelerate medicines and vaccines discovery and development for patients, as well as a driver of efficient Development operations.

The leadership role will ensure interoperability between DEVOPS, CMO, Research, and the enterprise including Clinical and Commercial supply chain, to be compliant with regulations such as IDMP, but also to unlock value opportunities and identification of new transformational medicines and vaccines. This leader will partner with Enterprise AI function in alignment of the Technology & AI foundation that power data and AI in DEVOPS & CMO and across the Enterprise.

The role will provide leadership (directly or through delegation) to external consortiums which will establish a cloud-based platform for data exchange between sponsors and health authorities across the world.

Key Responsibilities:

• Single point of accountability and technology advisor to Head of DEVOPS and Chief Medical Officer business leadership with global operations and leadership and engagement of R&D Tech teams.
• Contributes to the R&D Digital and Tech as a strategic, collaborative, and enterprise leader; raising organizational and capability issues, challenges as well as solutions and alternatives.
• Leads technology, data, and analytics strategy development in close collaboration with business areas, including creating the 3 year pan and capability assessments.
• Partners with the R&D leadership team stakeholders to calculating ROI for technology investments and uses information to facilitate prioritization and decision making.
• Enables digital experiments, as endorsed by the DEVOPS/CMO Leadership team.
• Orientates technology components into products and elevates team to a product management way of working including relentless customer focus, agile delivery with value in quarterly increments, and fit-for-purpose technology solutions that makes it easier to develop medicines and vaccines, and impactful for patients.
• Collaborates with Commercial and Supply Chain Tech, to ensure an enterprise approach to operational systems and data, especially in the areas of Medical and regulatory.
• Drives the future into all solutions and tech products and always ready with digital "art of the possible", integrating seamlessly technology, data, and advanced analytics into solutions.
• Ensures systems are current (IT security) and robust (redundancy, scalability) and include latest features driving compliance in a heavily regulated business area.
• Always, do the right thing with a focus on quality by design
• Delivers innovative value by surfacing insights and identifying improvements to process and information flow, and moves the current state to the future, including leveraging cloud platforms, data and advanced analytics, and intelligent automation (application of artificial intelligence), medical and scientific analytics, health care professional engagement, and transactional systems in regulatory, quality, and safety.
• Provide input into the future digital health strategy, to align the strategy to strengthen the pipeline, unlock value for GSK therapeutic expertise, and provide more impact to patients.
• Manages execution of technology roadmap with direct oversight of DevSecOps teams ensuring compliance with ITMS.
• GSK R&D Tech manages legacy applications and in orde