Director, PV Business Data Strategy and Owner

Job Purpose:

Data is central to the mission and strategy of Global Safety. This role will be instrumental in advancing the Global Safety data strategy enabling GSK to be at the forefront of defining the next generation PV Concepts. In this role, the Director, PV Business Data owner and strategy will develop the strategy to enable GSK Global Safety to collect or access, manage and analyse data of relevance to patient safety ever more effectively and extensively for rapid, richer and more robust insights, with the added benefit that we will be able to do more to contribute safety information at an earlier point in the drug and vaccine discovery and development process.  This role will advance our PV capabilities to enable and integrate GSK data with other rich data sources that up until now have limited or no routine use in PV.

Key Responsibilities:

The main responsibility of the role is driving the data strategy within the Safety/Pharmacovigilance (PV) domain(s) and thus increasing the value of GSK data. Other key responsibilities include:

• Drive overall vision & data strategy for PV consumption domain(s)

• Gain line of sight into other Domains across Development

• Ensure domain maximizes value to business end users & enables key Safety use cases.

• Establish and manage data-domain access policy.

• Grant and approve data access requests in line with policy / processes; remove users as needed.

• Collaborate with source domain data owners for data re-use requests.

• Gather & triage new demand/use cases from functions requiring access to Safety domain(s)

• Review and approve documentation for the Safety domain(s) (e.g., requirements, system & design specification, access plan)

• Ensure data is used in line with any terms & conditions on permitted users / uses.

• Ensure data meets required standards as per defined data governance policies.

• Define data classification, security, use & quality standards in order to adhere to compliance policies.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, data science, life sciences or related field. 

• 10+ years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry. Experience in pharmacovigilance, clinical development, or similar is preferred.

• 5+ years’ experience in data management, data governance, or related. Experience in developing and driving data strategies preferred.

• 3+ years’ experience in establishing and managing data access policies and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Certificate in data science or similar

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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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