Director DDS Business Enablement & Implementation

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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. As an individual contributor, 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 team. We are seeking strategy builders versus pure project or program managers.
2.    Enterprise Change Leadership: Lead and engage in 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 business performance gaps and define targeted interventions—process improvements, capability uplift, or new ways of working—to enable higher-quality delivery.
4.    Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to functional leads and function-aligned CMC Performance Leads, ensuring alignment, clarity, and informed decision-making.
5.    Process Stewardship: Drive the standardization, optimization, and embedding of business processes, ensuring consistency and high-quality execution across Drug Development and Supply (DDS).
6.    Capability Building: Support development of organizational capabilities through targeted learning and skill-building initiatives.
7.    Risk & Issue Anticipation: Identify potential risks to delivery or adoption and propose proactive mitigation strategies.

Basic Qualification:    

• Bachelors degree

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

• Experience designing, scoping, and delivering cross-functional initiatives, including defining outcomes, business value, governance, and performance measures.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional leaders in biopharma R&D or Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) on decision-making for programs or initiatives.

• Experience utilizing productivity and collaboration tools.

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, preferably CMC.

• Experience of Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) processes, capabilities, or manufacturing technologies.

• Experience in translating complex programs into clear and actionable insights through communication and stakeholder management. 

• Experience acting as a chief of staff of a large department or company (300+ people)

• Consulting experience (such as BCG, McKinsey) within biopharma 

• Strong experience applying structured change leadership / management methodologies (e.g., Prosci/ADKAR) to drive adoption and behavioral change.

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

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

• Highly adaptable to new technologies

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.

 

Skills

Communication, Cross-Functional Leadership, Drug Development, Project Development, Project Implementations, Project Leadership, Scientific Research

 

 

• 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 147,500Belgium Salary Range / Fourchette salariale – Belgique: EUR 117,000 to EUR 195,000The 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.

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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.

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