Business Strategy Performance & Operations Director, DevSci

Business Strategy Performance & Operations Director, DevSci

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, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients' needs and have the highest probability of success. We're uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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Position Summary

You will lead business strategy and performance for Development Sciences (DevSci) a Global Team. You will partner with cross-functional leadership to translate strategy into measurable plans and operational outcomes. Your role will track performance, manage governance, and enable strategic operational improvements and project implementation. We value clear decision-making, collaboration, and people development. You will make a visible impact on how science, technology and talent come together to get ahead of disease.

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to Partner with the DevSci leadership team to shape, co-lead, and deliver strategic priorities, annual business objectives, planning, and align change with transformation initiatives. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead end-to-end performance management for DevSci strategy. Including targets and designing foundational DevSci performance management frameworks, dashboards, and reporting.

• Set with leadership the operational plan that will deliver our mission and vision for DevSci.

• With leaders define functional strategic workforce needs and align with DevSci strategy and objectives.

• Design and run governance forums that enable timely decisions and transparent risk management.

• Lead the operating rhythm for the VPs' leadership teams, including leadership team agendas, decision forums, governance processes, and follow-through on actions.

• Coordinate priority-setting and resource allocation across initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise strategy and business needs within end-to-end pipeline delivery.

• Partner with finance, operations, and functional leads to translate strategy into delivery plans and forecasts.

• Lead key business project design and implementation to deliver step changes in operating model.

• Coach and develop team members, and build cross-functional capability to deliver strategic priorities.

• Provide clear, concise updates to senior leaders and stakeholders, turning data into actionable insight.

• Drive organisational effectiveness by improving business data, insights, processes, decision quality, role clarity, and cross-functional ways of working.

• Drive insights and continuous improvement of key processes, tools and ways of working to increase speed and quality.

• Lead or support high-priority projects on behalf of the function, including change initiatives, new operating models, and implementation of enabling processes or tools.

• Build cross-R&D, Medical and Commercial Strategy & Performance leader matrix understanding to identify opportunities/challenges to improve performance.

• Develop concise executive communications, briefings, and presentations that support strategic alignment, decision-making, and stakeholder engagement.

• Inform goals, risks, milestones, and resource plans aligned with our operating model through comprehensive reporting and oversight.

• Use data, technology (including AI tools), and process insight to drive continuous improvement and strengthen business performance.

• Act as a trusted advisor to LT and LT-1 senior leaders, providing challenge, synthesis, and practical recommendations in ambiguous or fast-moving situations.

Why You?
Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals

• Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Significant experience in strategy, operations, or performance roles in life sciences, pharma, biotech, or related industries.

• Experience working with financial plans, KPIs, forecasting and performance tracking.

• Strong stakeholder management and experience running senior leadership operational or project steering committees.

• Demonstrable people management experience with a record of developing matrix teams.

• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to present complex information simply.

• Advanced ability to work in matrix organisations and across multiple geographic locations.

• Experience using data and business insights to drive performance and decision-making using AI tools.

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

• Advanced degree (MBA, MSc, or similar) or equivalent leadership experience.

• Experience in R&D or development sciences environments and leading operational or change projects.

• Strong change management experience and a track record of implementing operational improvements.

• Hands-on experience with business intelligence tools, data visualisation and process automation.

• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations relevant to clinical and non-clinical development sciences.

• Business strategy or consulting experience gain directly through consulting firms or in house within business

Working Arrangement -Hybrid
This role can be based at the following office locations:

HQ Central London, UK

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Waltham, Boston, MA, USA

This role is hybrid, you are expected to be on-site 2/3 days per week, to connect with teams and stakeholders. Some travel may be required for cross-site collaboration.

Ready to make an impact and apply:
We welcome your application. Please submit your CV and a short statement that explains how your experience matches this role. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing Date: COP 20th August 2026

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What we value in you
- Clear decision-making and accountability.
- A collaborative mindset and respect for diverse perspectives.
- Practical problem solving and bias for action.
- A focus on coaching others and building capability.
- A commitment to our mission of uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Skills

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.

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.

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