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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You will lead business strategy and performance for Development Sciences (Dev Sci) 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.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to Partner with the Dev Sci 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 Dev Sci strategy. Including targets and designing foundational Dev Sci performance management frameworks, dashboards, and reporting.
• Set with leadership the operational plan that will deliver our mission and vision for Dev Sci.
• With leaders define functional strategic workforce needs and align with Dev Sci 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.

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…