Principal Product Owner – Data Capture Automation

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania - King of Prussia Posted Date: Aug 31 2022 Are you highly self-motivated, forward-thinking and like to explore new ways of applying existing and new technologies to solve Business problems? Do you understand the importance of prioritising according to business value and can communicate with stakeholders? Do you have an interest in applying modern technology to accelerate GSK’s R&D pipeline, to enable GSK to derive greater insights, reduce risk and optimise cost and timelines? We’d like to hear from you if you think you might make a good fit! The Product Owner (Data Capture Automation) within RD Digital and Tech is accountable for designing, delivering, and supporting the Technology products in their domain that will improve the user experience and enable efficiency and acceleration of the GSK R&D pipeline. The Data Capture Automation product set is foundational to our experiment data capture ambitions and will serve to automate the capture and flow of scientific data from generation at the instrument to consumption. This will serve to improve and simplify the user experience at the scientist level and provide high quality, analytics-ready datasets for decision-making and modelling activities. The Product Owner is recognized as the go to leader and trusted advisor for their product set – removing blockers, working collaboratively and adaptively to constantly meet the needs of their customers and deliver value to GSK. Each Product Owner will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders to agree on priorities for their product set and deliver against those priorities. They will deliver products that align with the overall GSK Digital and Tech strategic roadmap. The role will have ownership and responsibility for the products within the Data Capture Automation area across Research Solutions. There will be a key focus on the CMC Experiment Capture Agile Release Train, delivering value across the CMC area of R&D. In addition, the Product Owner will explore opportunities and synergies across other areas of Research Solutions to enable more efficient instrument and data capture and simplify our Digital and Tech application landscape. This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following: Technology Strategy & Enablement: in the role of trusted advisor, strong domain knowledge including business process, industry best practices, in market solutions. Maintains awareness of emerging industry trends related to their product space and uses this knowledge to drive forward-looking product strategy. Demand management: Collaborate with business stakeholders to manage and prioritize the product backlog with a focus on the highest business value. Accountable for the product backlog and product cost forecast. Governance: Establish business value, manage delivery and service performance and manage business risk within the scope of their product. Responsible for representing the product in governance boards such as Steering and Design Authority. Product/Project Delivery: Design and deliver the optimal set of products and services which meets the business strategy and requirements. Accountable for creation and execution of the product roadmap. May complete hands on configuration, providing detailed designs and wider impact assessments. The ability to think big picture and customer first is imperative. Quality, Risk & Compliance: Accountable for ensuring all products supporting the business are compliant with internal security, risk management policies and practices, external regulatory and statutory requirements e.g. GxP, and that Tech continuity plans are in place for all business-critical products Feature Definition: Proven ability to translate customer requests, competitive activities, and industry trends into value drivers of new technology solutions and product requirements that can be easily understood by product teams, developers and other key constituencies within the organization Service Management: Accountable for ensuring the right services levels are in place, to ensure adherence to those SLAs, and directly manage any Level 3 Support issues and escalations. Accountable for Life Cycle management of the product. People Management: Will work in collaboration with the broader team to drive and deliver business value to tight timelines adhering to the release management calendar where applicable. Depending on team structure, the incumbent will matrix or line manage the team Adoption strategy & change management: In the role of change agent, support both the product teams and the business in agile approaches to solution development and adoption, building excitement, momentum, visible success stories and clear value-based versions of vision as roadmap plans come to life. Why you? Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: Bachelor's Degree 2+ years experience e.g. R&D Application / Data Management experience and / or exposure to product management in a major global IT organization and / or Pharmaceutical discovery/development domain knowledge combined with data analytics experience. Content Knowledge of Scientific R&D operating models and processes and/or scientific data capture systems (ELN, LIMS, Historian). Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Scientific Bachelor's Degree or Higher Degree Demonstrable experience in working in an IT product related industry, with experience in IT software analysis, design or delivery. Good experience in relationship management, influencing and communication skills. Experience of Agile Delivery and DevOps Experience of vendor management Delivering business outcomes and simplification with a passion for science and advancing medicines to patients *LI-GSK Why GSK? 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. 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