Senior Principal

Site Name: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Sep 13 2024

Are you highly self-motivated, forward-thinking and like to explore new ways of applying existing and new technologies to solve business problems? Do you understand the importance of prioritizing according to business value and can communicate with stakeholders? Do you have an interest in applying modern technology to enable GSK Global Drug Safety to achieve industry leading performance? We’d like to hear from you if you think you might make a good fit

The distinct behavior demonstrated by a Product Owner is defined by Product Thought Leadership, Innovation, Strategy and People Management & Development. The Product Owner for Global Drug Safety, within GSK R&D Tech, is accountable for designing and delivering the roadmap for a range of Drug Safety Data products with a focus on improving user experience, working collaboratively with senior stakeholders to agree on and deliver against priorities.

The role will have ownership and responsibility for various Drug Safety Data products within GSK’s Global Safety Operations and Safety Data product set and will have a key role in shaping and creating GSK’s future Drug Safety and data platforms. Experience of Drug Safety systems such as Argus / Aris-G / Veeva is desired, as is experience of other platforms like tools such as PowerBI, Azure, Snowflake.

The Product Owner is recognized as the go to leader and trusted advisor for their product set - removing blockers, working collaboratively and adaptively to constantly meet the needs of their customers and deliver value to GSK.

About R&D Tech, Data Acquisition & Management in Drug Safety Solutions

GSK R&D is led by science. Science is driving an ever-increasing variance and complexity of Drug Safety, and its related data collection and management. This presents great opportunity for Tech enablement via investments in modern platform technologies and Digital applications, across GSKs Pharma and Vaccines organizations.

In this role you will

• Technology Strategy & Enablement : in the role of trusted advisor, strong domain knowledge including business process, industry best practices, in market solutions. Maintains awareness of emerging industry trends related to the product space such as machine learning, visual analytics and automation, and uses the knowledge to drive forward looking product strategy.
• Demand management: Collaborate and influence senior business stakeholders to manage and prioritize the product backlog with a focus on highest business value. Accountable for the product backlog and product cost forecast.
• Governance: Establish and lead relevant governance bodies (steering committees), provide oversight and establish business value, manage overall delivery and service performance and manage business risk.
• Product/Project Delivery: Lead the team(s) that will design and deliver the optimal set of products and services which meets the business strategy and requirements. Accountable for creation and execution of the product roadmap. The ability to think big picture and customer first is imperative.
• Quality, Risk & Compliance: Accountable for ensuring all products supporting the business are compliant with internal security, risk management policies and practices, external regulatory and statutory requirements e.g. GxP, and that Tech continuity plans are in place for all business-critical products.
• Feature Definition: Proven ability to translate customer requests, competitive activities, and industry trends into value drivers of new technology solutions and product requirements that can be easily understood by product teams, developers and other key constituencies within the organization.
• Service Management: Accountable for ensuring the right services levels are in place, to ensure adherence to those SLAs, and directly manage any Level 3 Support issues and escalations. Accountable for Life Cycle management of the product.
• People Management: Will work in collaboration with the broader team to drive and deliver business value to tight timelines adhering to the release management calendar where applicable. Depending on team structure, the incumbent will matrix or line manage the team.
• Adoption strategy & change management : in the role of change agent, support both the product teams and the business in agile approaches to solution development and adoption, building excitement, momentum, visible success stories and clear value-based versions of vision as roadmap plans come to life.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Total 15+ years of experience out of which 10 or more yrs. experience in Drug Safety (Pharmacovigilance) systems such as Argus (Application and Database).
• Good understanding of Argus Integrations, E2b setup/ICSRs, ETLs, Axway/B2B, Meddra, WHO and Infrastructure.
• Ability to understand different regulations and Regulatory Reporting need.
• 7 or more yrs. experience in Project Management, Agile/JIRA.
• Proficiency in DB & programming languages such as Oracle SQL-PL/SQL, Unix knowledge is an add on.
• 3-5 yrs. Experience of vendor management
• Deep domain knowledge of Drug Safety data
• Track record in effective line management
• Strong facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills, ability to influence sr. leadership and decision-making using data, market evidence
• Good track record in delivering business impact through process and IT enabled solutions, across multiple business lines

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Proficiency in Python & Snowflake
• Knowledge of cloud & webservice platforms such as Azure Databricks, RESTful Webservices
• Understanding of AI/ML, LLM, NLP algorithms & capabilities and vision to drive business value and enhance the Drug Safety data offerings
• Relentless for delivering business outcomes and value and simplification with a passion for science and advancing medicines to patients
• Size, scope and scale of challenge necessitates a leader with the right proven experiences, strategic thinking and execution capabilities. Credibility (through experience) is essential to success in this role.

At GSK we value diversity (Gender, LGBTQ +, PwD etc.) and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution.

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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 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 organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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