Digital & Automation Engineering Director

Business Introduction
We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance.

Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.

We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.

Position Summary

The Digital Director – Global Capital Projects is responsible for defining and embedding advanced digital capabilities within the scope of capital projects globally, fully aligned with GSK’s digital ambition.

This role ensures digital is embedded as a core enabler of project design and engineering delivery, driving innovation, performance, and value.

Operating within GCP Project Engineering, the role shapes the digital content of project scope, ensuring assets are designed and delivered with appropriate automation, data capability, and digital functionality.

The role may be seconded into priority projects as Digital Lead, providing direct leadership to ensure digital scope is effectively defined, integrated, and delivered within complex project environments.

The role ensures capital projects deliver future-ready, digitally enabled facilities, maximizing long-term operational performance and business value.

Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Define and drive digital scope and requirements within capital projects, aligned to GSK’s enterprise digital and smart manufacturing strategies.

• Provide central leadership on digital design principles, standards, and scope definition across the project portfolio.

• Collaborate closely with the Business Smart Manufacturing Organization to ensure digital scope is fully aligned with business strategies and roadmaps.

• Deploy into key projects as Digital Lead (as required), influencing engineering design and scope decisions to ensure appropriate inclusion of:

  • Automation systems

  • Digital platforms and data architecture

  • Smart manufacturing capabilities

  • IT/OT infrastructure

• Ensure digital requirements are embedded from early project phases (FEED and design) and carried through execution and commissioning.

• Challenge and optimize project scope to ensure fit-for-purpose, future-ready digital capabilities, avoiding under- or over-specification.

• Partner with Engineering, Tech SMEs, and Digital teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, architectures, and long-term operational needs.

• Ensure digital and technology components are fully integrated, scalable, and aligned to enterprise platforms.

• Support definition of data strategies and digital architectures required for operational readiness and lifecycle value.

• Drive clarity on value and benefits linked to digital scope decisions, particularly in operational efficiency, quality, and flexibility.

• Capture and scale best practices to establish consistent digital design principles and standards across capital projects.

Why You?

Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Digital, IT, or related discipline required (Master’s preferred)

• 10+ years of experience in digital, automation, or technology roles within capital-intensive or regulated industries (e.g., pharma, biopharma, manufacturing)

• Experience supporting or delivering technology scope within large-scale capital projects or complex manufacturing environments

• Demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following domains:

  • Smart Manufacturing and/or Automation systems (e.g., PLCs, SCADA, MES)

  • Data and digital platforms (e.g., cloud, data pipelines, analytics platforms)

  • IT/OT architecture and industrial infrastructure integration

  • Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable digital or automation solutions for operational environments

Preferred Qualification
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience ensuring technology and digital solutions are designed for long-term operational use and scalability

• Proven ability to translate business and operational needs into effective digital scope and system design

• Experience working across global, matrix organizations

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills at senior level

• Strong systems thinking and engineering mindset

• Ability to balance innovation with practical, fit-for-purpose solutions

• Strong influencing and decision-shaping capability

• Ability to operate across multiple projects and complexity levels

• Excellent communication skills across technical and business stakeholders

• Experience working with external vendors, integrators, and technology partners

• Strong focus on long-term value and operational performance

How to Apply
If you are motivated to lead a lab team, improve processes, and help deliver high quality supply for patients, we want to hear from you. Please submit your application and tell us how your experience and leadership would support our goals. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage people who will bring new perspectives to apply.

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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