GSK is a place where outstanding people do amazing things. As a science-led global healthcare company, we exist to help people do more, feel better, live longer. Our goal is to be one of the most innovative, best performing, and trusted healthcare companies.

This leadership role will serve as the Data & Analytics (D&A) tech partner for Finance & Procurement plus additional responsibility for leading the development of a D&A portfolio for global functions to build sustainable D&A capabilities through activation of D&A use cases.

The role will act as a key driver for implementing the GSK enterprise D&A Strategy within Finance, Procurement & across global functions, and will support the ongoing Digital, Data & Analytics (DDA) transformation aligned with the company’s ongoing commitment to innovatively meet challenges and leverage opportunities posed by shifting market forces, evolving regulatory environments, changing patient needs and expectations, and emerging developments in healthcare.

Reporting to the Head of Data & Analytics for Global Functions, this role will serve as a functional D&A tech leader, and internal thought partner to Finance & Procurement DDA leaders to help shape and drive the transformation of GSK’s big data and analytics capabilities, culture, and best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing a D&A portfolio across all global functions, with best-practice ways of working including programme governance, stakeholder management, and monitoring & reporting of business value delivery for all D&A use cases.

• Define business problems and develop analytics solutions with a focus on operationalizing machine learning (ML) models and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

• Evaluate the quality and performance of AI/ML models for operationalization, fostering sustainable enterprise solutions.

• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of data products for Finance & Procurement including data engineering to create analytics ready data sets, development of the data products, and on-going support and maintenance and enhancements.

• Develop and mentor staff at all levels in a matrix organization and build an internal capacity to deliver high quality and highly innovative analytics services.

• Develop our Generative AI roadmap and managing our solution space.

• Educate technical and business leaders on the use of Generative AI.

• Co-create with the business appropriate use-cases that will benefit from Generative AI

• Work collaboratively with business leaders in Identifying critical business problems that could be solved using Generative AI. Identify opportunities to leverage the latest Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Quickly prototype scenarios from LLMs till UX for user testing purposes

• Influence the AI/ML stack like Feature Stores, Model Stores, and automated MLops to create most value out of LLMs.

• Educate the organization both from IT and the business perspectives on Generative AI

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.

• Extensive years of experience in data science, machine learning, or artificial intelligence, with several years in a leadership role.

• Strong knowledge of statistical modelling, machine learning, and deep learning techniques, and their practical applications in a business context.

• Experience in time series, causal models and AI powered financial forecasting.

• Experience with programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL, and data visualization tools such as Power BI.

• Experience in AI, Python programming, Deep Learning frameworks, and big data technologies, including PySpark, Synapse, and Databricks

• Strong expertise in designing, creating, evaluating, and deploying models to production, monitoring, and governing data and analytics products.

• Experience working with structured and, unstructured, data.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Strong project management and leadership skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Demonstrate exceptional executive-level relationship building skills with strong ability to influence others.

• Leadership across a complex matrixed environment

• Operating in a fast-paced business critical environment

• Demonstrate excellent persuasion, negotiation, presentation, and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with data platform management in Microsoft Azure, including data warehousing, data lakes, and data pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Master’s degree in data science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.

• Pharmaceutical or Healthcare experience good to have

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Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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