GSK GCC Early Talent Program

GCC Transformation Role

• Opportunity to work directly with the Transformation CoE leads and global stakeholders
• Lead execution of the assigned programs & projects & responsible for all project phases
• Manage the day-to-day activities, including scope, financials (e.g. business case, budget), resourcing (e.g. Full-time employees, roles and responsibilities, utilization), timelines and toll gates and risks
• Flex across a variety of different transformation initiatives across all our global functions (Finance, HR, Tech, Communications, Compliance, Procurement and Legal)
• Identify and help drive improvement/efficiency opportunities across processes, working closely with the Global Process Owners (GPOs) and Technology Product Owners (TPOs) and their teams
• Lead engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures in accordance with agreed methodology across the continuous improvement initiatives within the GCC.
• May involve focus on one project or working across a portfolio of projects – typical types of projects would include operating model transformation / cost reduction, automation, outsourcing/offshoring and service transitions, regulatory changes etc. supporting both global and local geographies
• Engage with the wider GSK project management and continuous improvement and external process excellence communities to drive best practices and learnings.
• Perform process studies and basic data analysis and gather insight into improvements on Customer Satisfaction, Employee experience, Efficiency improvements etc in prioritized and identified areas
• Research and document best practices and benchmarks from external and internal communities in identified areas within GCC Operations
• Play a key role in providing inputs to certain critical day to day activities like Business Case preparation, creation of project plans etc.

GCC Technology Product Management Role

Strategy

• Create a product vision, strategy and roadmap, evidenced and defensible to stakeholders and yourself
• Determine and understand your customer’s needs better than anyone, through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Doing deep research on unmet needs and opportunities and have a good sense of what features would benefit GSK most. (internal and external)
• Drives customer centricity through persona creation and journey mapping
• Be the recognized expert in every facet of your product.

Operational Management

• Work with colleagues from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to set a clear and cohesive strategy for your product area, whilst still maintaining space to incorporate new ideas along the journey
• Rigorously apply the scientific method and lean start-up thinking to set hypotheses, design experiments, test assumptions and break-down complex problems into smaller chunks
• Interpret the data, work out what the next question to ask is then turn the answers into something stakeholders want to use.
• Maintain high credibility and deliver real value by shipping product that make our users’ lives easier
• Owns prioritization decisions of the product / sprint backlog

Communication and Adoption

• Develop and communicate the product vision, strategy, & roadmap
• Advocates for customers on their needs
• Sets and manages expectations on product capabilities, performance and delivery timelines
• Accountable for product performance and results (ex OKR definition and achievement, stakeholder satisfaction, adoption and utilization)

You’ll need

Experience

• Pre-MBA work experience of 18 month or more is preferable

Skills –

• Excellent interpersonal (communication and presentation) and organizational skills
• Problem solving abilities and a can-do attitude
• Confident, proactive self-starters, comfortable in managing and engaging others
• Effective in engaging, partnering with and influencing stakeholders across the matrix up to VP level
• Ability to move fluidly between big picture and detail always keeping the end goal in mind
• Inclination toward collaborative partnership, and able to help establish/be part of high performing teams for impact
• Highly diligent with close eye for detail. Delivers quality outputs

• Commercial awareness and business acumen – a real interest in Strategy, Transformation and Continuous Improvement areas
• Self-discipline and drive
• Resilience and the ability to adapt to change
• Confidence and courage to take key decisions
• Ability to understand complex products of a scientific nature

At GSK we value diversity and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution.

GSK adheres to legal and regulatory diversity requirement and set (in-country) aspirational targets to ensure balanced representation

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