Senior Director, Head Clinical Process Management

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Location: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, Belgium-Wavre, GSK HQ, India - Karnataka - Bengaluru, Mississauga, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, Warsaw Rzymowskiego 53

Posted Date: Dec 3 2025

Company Overview

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting‑edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, focusing on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs.

Job Purpose

The Senior Director, Head Clinical Process Management is accountable for the landscape of clinical processes across Global Clinical Operations, ensuring a comprehensive, streamlined, compliant network aligned with GCO strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and articulate a strategic vision for clinical process management for GCO and lead the definition of organization‑wide goals for clinical process optimization, effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance.
• Process Sponsorship: Lead the optimization of our clinical trial processes addressing regulatory requirements, audit/inspection/quality findings, and new technologies to deliver best‑in‑class outcomes.
• Process Governance & Direction: Drive process governance & oversight across GCO ensuring process consistency, compliance, effectiveness and end‑user friendliness.
• Excellence in Continuous and Transformative Process Improvement: Guide teams on leveraging data and insights and applying disciplined yet agile process improvement and change management methodologies to deliver initiatives that reliably deliver desired business impact.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Inspire and lead a GCO‑wide cross‑functional network of Global Process Owners, driving collaboration across teams and senior stakeholders to align on clinical process goals and priorities.
• People Leadership & Development: Inspire, lead, and develop a global team of direct reports to deliver on objectives, excel in their roles, and foster a culture of empowerment, accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Leadership within GCO Excellence: As a member of the GCO Excellence Leadership Team, co‑drive and co‑develop the operational excellence agenda for GCO for successful delivery of clinical studies and the R&D pipeline.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Clinical Research, Healthcare Management, or a related field.
• Deep understanding of clinical development with in-depth knowledge of clinical trial processes, clinical systems and regulatory requirements.
• Significant expertise in continuous improvement and process transformation projects, strong understanding of process improvement and change management methodologies.
• Full awareness of the larger ecosystem we operate in with a very good understanding of industry and technology trends and opportunities.
• Strong strategic thinker with an ability to translate high‑level objectives into actionable plans and practical outcomes.
• Collaborative, team‑oriented mindset with a focus on building relationships across functions.
• Passionate about improving healthcare delivery and clinical processes to enhance patient outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Clinical Research, Healthcare Management, or a related field or MBA.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We are a global biopharma company focused on respiratory, immunology, oncology, HIV, and infectious diseases, aiming to impact health at scale while fostering an ambitious culture for patients. GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

EEO Statement

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.

Adjustments

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities, contact UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com or 0808 234 4391. The helpline is available from 8.30 am to 12.00 noon Monday to Friday, during bank holidays these times and days may vary.

Other Information

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Management and Manufacturing
• Industries: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing