Senior Product Owner – Engineering, EHS & Sustainability

About the role

As Senior Product Owner – Engineering, EHS & Sustainability, you will lead a cross-functional product team delivering digital products that enable our Engineering, Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and Sustainability teams to work safely, efficiently and compliantly.

You will turn complex business needs into a clear product vision, roadmap and prioritised backlog. You'll focus the team on delivering the greatest value for our people, patients and the planet, while balancing risk, cost and strategic priorities.

Working with business stakeholders, Product Managers, Solution Architects, Engineers and Product Analysts, you'll help ensure our products are intuitive, secure, compliant and supportable. You'll also play an important role in identifying and delivering responsible AI opportunities that improve user experience, quality and efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Shape the product vision and roadmap, partnering with Engineering, EHS and Sustainability stakeholders to understand business needs, define outcomes and establish how value will be measured.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog, translating requirements into clear epics, features and user stories based on business value, risk, cost, dependencies and capacity.
• Lead product delivery across the full lifecycle, working with analysts, engineers, architects and testers to deliver secure, compliant and user-focused solutions.
• Drive successful adoption and continuous improvement, ensuring operational readiness and using product performance measures, user feedback and data to inform future priorities.
• Lead AI-enabled product opportunities, converting business needs into valuable AI use cases and defining appropriate success measures and evaluation criteria.
• Ensure effective governance and responsible delivery, including security, data protection, validation, human oversight, risk management and regulated change controls.

 

Why You?

Basic qualifications and experience

We are looking for someone with:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience. 
• Experience in product ownership, digital product delivery, business systems or process-led technology roles, including managing and prioritising a product backlog.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into clear, value-led technology solutions and working directly with business stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through the product lifecycle, including refinement, design, testing, release, adoption and continuous improvement.
• Experience working in agile delivery environments and balancing business value, risk, cost and technical complexity when setting priorities.
• Experience in at least one of the following areas: Engineering, including plant maintenance, calibration, validation, content management or capital projects; EHS, including incident management, occupational health, industrial hygiene or chemical compliance; or Sustainability, including energy efficiency, clean energy or waste management.
• Experience delivering AI, Generative AI, advanced analytics or intelligent automation capabilities, including defining success measures and evaluation criteria.
• Experience delivering technology solutions within a regulated or highly controlled environment, with an understanding of governance, validation, security and change control.

 

Preferred qualifications and experience

The following would be an advantage:

• Understanding of product performance measures, including adoption, cycle time, stability, user experience and support effort.
• Knowledge of Generative AI and large language models, with an understanding of responsible AI principles including privacy, security, transparency, human oversight and risk management.

 

What you'll bring

You will be an effective communicator who can make complex technology decisions understandable to a wide range of stakeholders. You'll be comfortable challenging assumptions, influencing priorities and making evidence-based decisions.

You'll combine a strong product mindset with an understanding of technology, risk and governance. You'll also be able to coach and support Product Analysts and other team members, helping create clear requirements and high-quality solutions.

Above all, you'll be curious about how digital technology and AI can solve real business problems and motivated by delivering products that create measurable value.

 

Closing date for applications: 20th November 2026

 

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Skills

Agile Methodology, Backlogs, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Design Thinking, DevOps, Process Diagrams, Product Strategies, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Services Management, Software Development, User Experience (UX), User Research, User Story

 

 

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.

 

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

 

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