Director DDS Business Enablement & Implementation

Job Title: Director, DDS Business Enablement & Implementation
 

Job Purpose:

Drive the design and delivery of multiple, complex, high-impact initiatives that enhance Drug Development and Supply (DDS) performance, strengthen ways of working, and support organizational readiness for strategic change. Act as an integrator across functions, ensuring programs, processes, and innovations are translated into tangible impact and sustained adoption.

Key Responsibilities:  

 
1.    Strategic Program Design & Delivery: Shape, scope, and design major improvement and transformation initiatives aligned to enterprise priorities, ensuring clear outcomes, governance, and success measures. The in/out scope of those programs will be prioritized by the head of the BPI.
2.    Enterprise Change Leadership: Lead structured change approaches (Prosci or equivalent) for Drug Development and Supply (DDS) -wide initiatives, ensuring adoption, behaviour change, and long-term embedding of new processes or capabilities. 
3.    Performance Enablement: Identify performance gaps and define targeted interventions—process improvements, capability uplift, or new ways of working—to enable higher-quality delivery.
4.    Innovation: Provide portfolio overview of Drug Development and Supply (DDS) innovation and capability portfolio delivery (delivered via the functional lines and/or external partnerships) including progress against plans (time, budget & resource), implementation readiness and change plan to implement. Proactively identify any interventions to ensure that capabilities deliver agreed benefits. Partner with others in Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) performance, Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) Digital and MTT leads to ensure a holistic view of all innovation investments and resource demand.
5.    Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to functional leads and Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) Performance Leads, ensuring alignment, clarity, and informed decision-making.
6.    Process Stewardship: Drive the standardization, optimization, and embedding of business processes, ensuring consistency and high-quality execution across Drug Development and Supply (DDS).
7.    Capability Building: Support development of team and organizational capabilities through targeted learning and skill- building initiatives.
8.    Risk & Issue Anticipation: Identify potential risks to delivery or adoption and propose proactive mitigation strategies.

Basic Qualification:    

• Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field; or equivalent by experience

• Experience in program management, business transformation, operational excellence, or organizational change within complex, matrixed environments.

• Experience in design, scope, and delivery of major cross-functional initiatives with clear outcomes, governance, and performance measures.

• Experience working with cross-functional leaders and serving as a thought partner for decision-making across R&D, Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC), or Operations.

Preferred Qualification: 

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field; or equivalent by experience

• Experience leading enterprise-level transformation programs in biopharma R&D, CMC, or supply chain settings.

• Demonstrated ability to manage innovation and capability portfolios, including oversight of milestones, resources, risks, and implementation readiness.

• Experience of Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) processes, digital capabilities, or manufacturing technologies, enabling integrated decision-making with performance and digital partners.

• Experience driving process standardization and optimization, especially in regulated or highly cross-functional environments.

• Experience designing and facilitating capability-building or organizational development programs.

Working Arrangements:
•    This role offers a hybrid working model, with a mix of on-site and remote work. Remote or fully home-working arrangements are not available for this role.

• If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $173,250 to $288,750. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process. Italian Salary Range / Fascia retributiva in Italia: EUR 88,500 to EUR 147,500 Belgium Salary Range / Fourchette salariale – Belgique: EUR 117,000 to EUR 195,000 The annual gross base salary range for new hires in this position is listed above for each applicable location. These ranges take into account a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position may offer an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. More detailed information on the total benefits package will be supplied during the recruitment process. This role is available for applicants from multiple locations, and therefore salary ranges for certain locations are also shown. Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process. Please note salaries vary by country based on the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. Offers are typically made within the advertised range based on the candidate’s skills, experience and qualifications, with the upper end generally reserved for highly experienced candidates or other exceptional circumstances aligned with these criteria.

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.

 

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

 

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