Product Owner - Manufacturing Engineering D&AI

The primary purpose of this role is to own Data & AI (D&AI) Products that will accelerate and improve probability of success of Manufacturing & Engineering activities in GSK’s Global Supply Chain, directly aligned to GSC’s Smart Manufacturing Digital Transformation Program.  This role will act as a strategic bridge between business and Tech/Data worlds. This role will leverage business domain understanding, D&AI expertise, and Product Management skills to define and agree vision and roadmaps for individual D&A products such as Digital Twins, transformative AI use cases, and Master Data Management for the Manufacturing & Engineering businesses.

This role will be responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of data-driven and AI-powered solutions that enhance operational efficiency, product quality, and decision-making processes across the organization. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including various tech and business stakeholders, to identify and prioritize opportunities for leveraging data and AI technologies. The Product Owner will also be accountable for defining the product vision and strategy, managing the product backlog, and ensuring the successful delivery of innovative solutions that align with GSK’s Smart Manufacturing ambition.

Key Responsibilities :

• Understanding needs, business processes and data requirements of customer-groups and users, and manage key business relationships for your D&AI products

• Combining business understanding with knowledge of established and emerging D&AI capabilities to identify and cultivate D&AI use-cases from ideas into potential D&A products 

• Matrix-manage a mission based team focused on complex use case and platform capability delivery

• Thinking and acting with agility, using experimentation, user demos and other sources of rapid feedback to iteratively refine the D&AI Product Roadmap and backlog throughout the Product lifecycle

• Actively participating in quarterly and sprint planning, work with customers and other Product teams to reduce dependencies and remove blockers

• Engaging with D&AI Architecture team and others to ensure D&AI Product technical design aligns with target architecture and established standards

• Develop and oversee user training programs and provide ongoing support to ensure successful adoption and utilization of data and AI solutions by end-users.

• Ensuring overall quality and compliance of D&AI Product including GxP Validation if required

Knowledge/Education Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, science, or a related discipline

• Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

• Agile Product Management

• Chemical Engineering

• Biotechnology

• Data Infrastructure

To provide the necessary foundational knowledge, technical competence, analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and credibility to effectively lead and drive data and AI strategy, innovation, and delivery within the pharmaceutical industry.

Preferred Level of Education

Master’s Degree in Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science or a related Discipline .

• Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

• Value Delivery and Strategic Alignment

• Product Management

To demonstrate a deeper level of expertise, advanced knowledge, specialized skills, and a commitment to continuous learning, enhancing ability to lead and drive strategy, innovation, and delivery within the pharmaceutical industry.

Previous Experience Required

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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