Job Description

GSK is one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and we are on a mission to improve humanity\xe2\x80\x99s quality of life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. We\xe2\x80\x99re undergoing an exciting transformation as we drive forward on our company 2030 ambitions.

To enable these fundamental changes to our company, GSK Technology is undergoing it\xe2\x80\x99s own transformation building new, advanced capabilities in Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, AI/ML, Data & Analytics, Software Engineering and Product Management.

We are in an exciting period of our Supply Chain Transformation, with new capabilities being designed, developed and deployed to step change our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) by aligning all aspects of the business, including sales, operations, finance and supply chain. This enterprise-wide strategic initiative will help GSK to align strategic and operational plans, make better & faster demand and supply decisions based on accurate data and respond quickly to changing supply and market conditions to achieve business objectives.

The Director of Product Management \xe2\x80\x93 Demand Planning, is accountable for driving the vision, strategy and roadmap for a single product within the GSC business unit for all Demand Planning activities. The role holder will ensure that all work performed by team is focused on Value, Flow & Quality, aswell as partnering with the Business Owner to collectively ensure the product lifecycle is effectively managed and prioritized. The role needs to partner with the full product team (direct reports and matric reports) to ensure the development of the best full stack Technology solution to achieve the desired business outcomes. They will also ensure that Agile standard operating model, ceremonies culture is embedded within the product team ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead your teams in developing vision, strategy, roadmap and ensure delivery of the capabilities for your product
• Coach and develop your product team to become effective team members that only develop and ship valuable work, focused on data-driven decision making and customer centricity
• Coach your team in how to determine and understand your customer\xe2\x80\x99s needs better than anyone, through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Work with colleagues from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to set a clear and cohesive strategy for your product area, whilst still maintaining space to incorporate new ideas along the journey
• Rigorously apply the scientific method and lean start-up thinking to set hypotheses, design experiments, test assumptions and break-down complex problems into smaller chunks
• Measure the impact of all new work released on your roadmap, close the value loop and ensure adoption
• Work as a servant-leader, reducing dependencies, removing blockers and co-ordinating with other product teams and key stakeholders
• Ensure that within product you adopt strategies and tools (e.g JIRA, Aha!) to accelerate speed to value
• Maintain high credibility and deliver real value by shipping product that make our users\xe2\x80\x99 lives easier
• Act as a leader to enhance and elevate Product Management as a discipline within GSK Tech

Required Experience & Qualifications (Apply if\xe2\x80\xa6)

• You have a BA/BSc degree in any discipline
• 5-10 years experience in developing successful technology planning solutions, with experience in OMP preferably, but also SAP, 09, Aera, Kinaxis
• Preferably experience in being part of a significant transformation programme
• You have led teams that have developed successful Planning software products from concept to adoption - (Scale of between 3-10) in both direct and matrix organisation model.
• You have directly managed product managers/analysts and are passionate about developing people
• You have a broad and detailed understanding of product management techniques including customer development, discovery & primary research, lean start-up method and industrialisation/scaling-up
• You have enough technical knowledge to understand your team\xe2\x80\x99s software products

What we value most in our people:

• Subject Matter Expertise & Credibility: Minimum of 5 years product management experience and Demand Planning experience. Highly competent in managing day-to-day technical and design direction
• Fluid Intelligence: High intellectual curiosity and able to learn quickly, assimilating new information and synthesising viewpoints/hypotheses. Able to become proficient in new areas in weeks, not months
• Emotional Intelligence: High EQ and empathy for both our external customers (i.e., Patients & Healthcare Professionals) and internal customers (senior stakeholders, cross-functional collaborators). Excited to bring people on the journey with them.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Able to evidence their decisions in sound qualitative and/or quantitative analysis and logic. Able to mine, analyse and interpret their own data (AI, ML, Power BI, etc).
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: People who can communicate their ideas, writing precisely and concisely, and able to articulate the \xe2\x80\x98why\xe2\x80\x99 behind their decisions to stakeholders with different levels of understanding and seniority
• Bias-to-Action: Pragmatic, resourceful and acts without waiting to be told what to do. An obsessive problem-solver who isn\xe2\x80\x99t afraid to \xe2\x80\x98get out of the building\xe2\x80\x99 and engage with customers to uncover their own insights
• Humility & Courage: Someone with low-ego and high-humility who isn\xe2\x80\x99t afraid to defend people and ideas that they believe to be right, and to challenge one\xe2\x80\x99s that aren\xe2\x80\x99t. Someone who understands that: \xe2\x80\x98people don\xe2\x80\x99t compete with people, ideas compete with ideas\xe2\x80\x99
• Culture Contributor: Enthusiastic contributor to the cultural fabric of our company, lives to see the team succeed together and proactively brings new ideas to the table

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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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