Director, R&D Digital & Tech Portfolio – Financial Management, Analytics & Insights Full Time

GlaxoSmithKline
Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street, USA – Pennsylvania – Upper Providence
Posted Date: Aug
Director, R&D Digital & Tech Portfolio – Financial Management, Analytics & Insights

GSK R&D and Digital & Tech’s (RDDT) collective goal is to deliver GSK impact, including the acceleration of the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines to patients. R&D Digital & Tech are the key Tech partner to support the R&D Ambition of bringing more medicines and vaccines to patients and support our scientists by supercharging R&D with Data.

With R&D and Digital and Tech’s joint goals to supercharge data in R&D, and the recent changes to the R&D organization to accelerate Research, the new RDDT Portfolio lead role will lead a streamlined RDDT portfolio focused on ensuring the highest value digital and tech initiatives are invested in across R&D.

The Director, RDDT Digital & Tech Portfolio, Financial Management, Analytics & Insights will be accountable for reporting on portfolio performance, providing data, insights and recommendations for financial planning and optimization across the tech portfolio, to drive efficiency, effectiveness and ROI for R&D Tech.

Key Responsibilities:

You will have these critical accountabilities:

• Financial management of Digital and Tech investment portfolio of > £100m Capital, >£100m linked business opex and >500 FTEs and consumption of software licenses and cost centre management, in partnership with R&D Finance and D&T Finance over 3-year planning horizon.
• Provide the data and recommendations to RDDT Portfolio Lead and SVP RDDT to optimize overall shape and strategic direction of the RDDT portfolio of investments.
• Accountable for portfolio context for each investment decision, with emphasis on Return on Investment, potential to meet target (based on analytics) and alignment to the investment strategies.
• Accountable for capital approval processes (CAB process and governance) within RDDT and supports RDDT Portfolio Lead to hold RDDT Leadership to account to ensure investment decisions are aligned to agreed investment strategies.

Value delivery tracking: working with RDDT teams to track the delivery of committed value from D&T investments e.g. hard savings, cycle-time acceleration, increased PTRS, risk mitigation and more. Partnering with the RDDT Portfolio Strategic Projects Lead to ensure efficient value reporting across RDDT, pulling data as required (and automated where possible) from Strategic Program and Portfolio/Product leads.

Operational metrics include Value, CAPAs, Apps & decommissions, internal & external benchmarking (e.g. PRISME), resource tracking (e.g. FTEs, CWs), risk management and compliance.

Strategic partnerships: Data and insights to inform, and support the development of, efficient, effective and compliant strategic partnerships (who provide 1000s of CWs to our workforce) with technology leaders, including ensuring 3rd party vendors deliver to contractual terms and conditions and value – in partnership with D&T Strategic Partner team.

Why You

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

• Degree, &/or relevant (e.g. R&D, Commercial, Corporate, GMS) experience and/or exposure to portfolio and financial management and/or product management in a major global IT organization.
• Strong analytics capability including emerging AI capabilities.
• Strong skills in storytelling with data and data visualization with the ability to provide insights and solutions/recommendations.
• Track record in delivering business impact through process and IT enabled solutions, across multiple business lines.
• Experience with successful IT strategy development, solution design, programme and project delivery and service management, across multiple business lines.
• Experience of Agile.
• Experience of vendor management.
• Excellent relationship management, strong influencing and communication skills at senior level.
• Deep content knowledge of how analytics and insights can optimise an investment portfolio.

Interested in Joining the Team?

Please apply via our online portal providing your CV and Cover Letter.

Closing Date: COP 5th September 2024

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

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