AddressPosted Date: Mar 19 2024
Research Operations Director for Research Technologies
The Business Operations Director is an independent contributor who partners with the aligned functional leader(s) to mobilize R&D’s people, time and resources for maximum patient impact. The Business Operations Director acts as a dynamic, intelligent glue - identifying, defining, organizing and accelerating the operational activities across R&D that are critical to delivering the R&D strategy.
This role supports implementation of the function’s strategy to deliver medicines and vaccines to patients. You’ll drive the function’s performance through the application of efficient and effective operational processes and also support acceleration activities and key projects. As the Business Operations Director you will be responsible for providing close support and thought partnership to the function’s senior leader (SVP/VP level). This role is currently focused on support for the Research Technologies function but future alignment to a specific function(s) could change according to Business Operations’ resourcing model requirements.
The Operations Director brings:
- FOCUS: Utilizing tenacity, expertise to accelerate what is most critical to R&D’s success – moving with pace to progress the best opportunities, simplifying, and prioritizing high value activities
- EFFICIENCY: Leveraging data and business analytics to derive insights which will help improve R&D performance - collaborating with the best external innovation and specialist support where that makes sense.
- HEALTHY TENSION: Being bold about asking difficult questions, looking for radical leaps as well as increments of progress and injecting fresh thinking to improve how things get done.
Responsibilities include driving the implementation and monitoring of the department strategy and operational plans, organizing and enabling the maximum effectiveness of the leadership team. In addition, the Operations Director will provide expertise in operational excellence, providing a standardized approach to applying GSK policy, process and enterprise support services to enable the aligned department to focus their efforts on high value drug discovery and development activities.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
- Own and manage complex projects and activities from first plans to final delivery.
- Commitment to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
- Navigate people, perspectives and processes with sensitivity and emotional intelligence.
- Anticipate problems and help resolve whatever can’t be forestalled.
- Facilitate discussions and debates to reach decisions.
- Provide leaders with an independent viewpoint and respectful challenge to drive effective business processes. Provide insights and thought partnership to guide business leaders.
- Provide guidance and practical, pragmatic support on operational issues.
- Translate team thinking into a sound and effective strategy.
- Drive business performance and leverage data and digital fluency as required.
- Bring excellent judgment and relevant experience to bear on a constantly changing set of challenges and opportunities – large and small. Regularly resolve ambiguous problems and challenges so that they can be effectively addressed.
- Partner with Finance, Human Resources (HR), Development Acceleration and Effectiveness to generate resource management analyses to enable Leadership Teams to appropriately resource our portfolio.
- Actively plan, facilitate, and participate at Leadership Team meetings to ensure delivery of strategic and operational line needs.
- Partner with leadership team to develop and facilitate the execution of the team's objectives and culture & engagement plan.
- When applicable, partners with quality and risk professionals to help translate GSK policy and facilitate risk identification to maintain a quality culture.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a business or science discipline or equivalent experience.
- Working experience in pharma/biotech research & development.
- Demonstrated Project leadership and management skills.
- Practical experience working with change management approaches on a range of projects / programs.
- Experience transitioning teams and organizations from a current state to a desired future state.
- Experience in and strong ability to influence at all levels of the organization, particularly directors to VP level.
- Drives change with a high degree of trust and credibility, providing clear project focus and direction.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Advanced Degree, preferably in sciences or Business Administration.
- Experience working in Research & Development.
- Ability to thoughtfully challenge status-quo.
- Highly motivated, agile & adept learning ability.
Why Us?
GSK is 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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
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 can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
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