Director, Clinical Supply Chain Systems
GSKAt GSK, the Clinical Manufacturing & Supply Chain (CMSC) organization is responsible for the enterprise-wide delivery of GMP clinical manufacturing for the small and large molecule medicines pipeline, and cross modality clinical supply chain management, labelling, packaging and distribution for the R&D vaccines and medicines
The Clinical Supply Systems function within CMSC is dedicated to deploying and supporting innovative digital technologies and systems that advance clinical supply chain management. This includes maintaining the current systems roadmap and ensuring the modernization of systems aligns with business strategy to drive automation, leverage data for enhanced insights, and improve overall efficiency.
Position Summary
Provide leadership for a team of business professionals in the development, deployment, support, and maintenance of key IT systems used in the R&D clinical supply chain. You will work closely with clinical operations, supply planning, manufacturing, quality, IT and external partners. This role acts as a bridge between business objectives and system capabilities, ensuring CSMC delivers measurable outcomes, aligns with enterprise priorities and R&D objectives in delivering portfolio acceleration and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Ensure systems are developed, deployed, supported, and maintained in accordance with GSK policies & procedures.
- Ensure systems & supporting documentation are maintained in a constant state of inspection readiness.
- Ensure team members are adequately trained and are performing effectively to develop, deploy, support, and maintain these systems.
- Ensure these systems remain aligned to current business strategies and current regulatory requirements.
- Provide effective leadership in support of quality deviations & investigations and system outages.
- Develop effective networks with GSK R&D Tech and system vendors.
- Escalate system risks when identified. · Ensure EHS risks are identified & mitigated
- Responsibilities: List activities that comprise the job including aspects of budget control, people management,
- Technical activities, health & safety, GMP and individual specific activities.
- Ensure systems are developed, deployed, supported, and maintained in accordance with GSK policies & procedures.
- Ensure systems & supporting documentation are maintained in a constant state of inspection readiness.
- Ensure team members are adequately trained and are performing effectively to develop, deploy, support and maintain these systems.
- Ensure these systems remain aligned to current business strategies and current regulatory requirements.
- Provide effective leadership in support of quality deviations & investigations and system outages.
- Develop effective networks with GSK R&D Tech and system vendors.
- Escalate system risks when identified.
- Ensure EHS risks are identified & mitigated
Basic Qualifications
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, /Data engineer/engineering related field
- 8+ years of experience in product management, system access with 6+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or supply chain management
- Relevant pharmaceutical/biotech or similar industry experience.
- 5+ years' operational experience with the R&D clinical supply chain in following technologies: Signant Health Systems: PMD/SSF/SSP, RTSM, SAP/ERP, Veeva CTMS
- 8+ years of professional experience in Product Ownership or Product Management.
- Proficiency with Jira/Confluence and AHA
- Experience developing, deploying, supporting, and maintaining IT systems in a regulated environment.
- Experience managing external vendors.
Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus
- Advanced degree in supply chain, engineering, life sciences, business or related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with clinical supply platforms, warehouse management systems or serialization solutions.
- Deep knowledge of supply chain systems data models and business contexts.
- Experience managing vendors and contracts for outsourced supply or technology services.
- Knowledge of global clinical supply regulations and good distribution practices.
- Practical skills in data analytics, dashboards or BI tools to drive improvements.
- Comfortable working in hybrid environments with distributed teams and flexible collaboration.
- Proven ability to lead and influence teams without direct authority
Location and working model
This role is based in the United States and is hybrid. The role expects an on-site presence approximately 2–3 days per week. We will discuss flexibility during the hiring process.
How to apply
If you are excited by the chance to lead clinical supply systems that enable clinical trials at scale, we want to hear from you. Please apply and tell us how your experience and approach will help our teams deliver for patients.
Closing Date for applications is 19th May
Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.
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