Director DDS Business Enablement&Implementation, Wavre

Site Name:

UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, Belgium-Wavre, Italy - Siena, UK - Hertfordshire - Ware, USA - Massachusetts - Waltham, USA - North Carolina - Zebulon, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Posted Date:

May 13 2026

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. Act as an integrator across functions, ensuring programs, processes, and innovations are translated into tangible impact and sustained adoption.

Key Responsibilities

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 BPI.

Enterprise Change Leadership: Lead 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.

Performance Enablement: Identify performance gaps and define targeted interventions—process improvements, capability uplift, or new ways of working—to enable higher-quality delivery.

Innovation: Provide portfolio overview of Drug Development and Supply (DDS) innovation and capability portfolio delivery (delivered via the functional lines and/or external partnerships). Include progress against plans (time, budget&resource), implementation readiness and a change plan to implement. Proactively identify interventions to ensure capabilities deliver agreed benefits. Partner with others in Chemistry, Manufacturing&Controls (CMC) performance, CMC Digital and MTT leads to ensure a holistic view of all innovation investments and resource demand.

Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to functional leads and CMC Performance Leads, ensuring alignment, clarity, and informed decision-making.

Process Stewardship: Drive the standardization, optimization, and embedding of business processes, ensuring consistency and high-quality execution across Drug Development and Supply (DDS).

Capability Building: Support development of team and organizational capabilities through targeted learning and skill-building initiatives.

Risk&Issue Anticipation: Identify potential risks to delivery or adoption and propose proactive mitigation strategies.

Basic Qualification

Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field; or equivalent by experience

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

Experience in design, scope, and delivery of major cross-functional initiatives with clear outcomes, governance, and performance measures.

Experience working with cross-functional leaders and serving as a thought partner for decision-making across R&D, Chemistry, Manufacturing&Controls (CMC), or Operations.

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, CMC, or supply chain settings.

Demonstrated ability to manage innovation and capability portfolios, including oversight of milestones, resources, risks, and implementation readiness.

Experience with CMC processes, digital capabilities, or manufacturing technologies, enabling integrated decision-making with performance and digital partners.

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

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

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.

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.

Salary and Benefits

US salary ranges: $173,250 to $288,750 (base).

Italian salary range:€88,500 to €147,500.

Belgium salary range:€117,000 to €195,000.

Annual bonus and eligibility to participate in share-based long-term incentive program.

Benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer 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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