Director - ERP Data Analytics, AI & Automation Platform

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

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  Lead the ERP Data Analytics, AI & Automation Platform, providing strategic direction, people leadership and operational accountability across analytics, data provisioning, visualization, conversational AI and automation capabilities.

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  Define and execute the platform strategy, roadmap and operating model, ensuring alignment with ERP transformation, enterprise data strategy, AI priorities and business objectives.

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  Lead ERP analytics and data platform modernization, including ECC to S/4HANA transformation initiatives and the adoption of SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere and Power BI.

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  Own the architecture, governance and lifecycle management of ERP analytics, data and AI platforms, ensuring scalable, secure and sustainable solutions.

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  Establish trusted, governed and reusable data products, ensuring data quality, integration, semantic consistency and a single source of truth across enterprise reporting and analytics.

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  Drive the adoption of AI, Conversational AI and Intelligent Automation capabilities, including SAP Business Process Automation, delivering measurable business value, productivity gains and enhanced user experiences.

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  Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, cyber security, audit, regulatory and pharmaceutical industry requirements, including validated systems and data integrity standards.

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  Oversee platform operations and service delivery, driving engineering excellence through DevOps, automation, performance optimization, service reliability and continuous improvement.

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  Partner with business leaders, ERP product teams and enterprise stakeholders to shape demand, prioritize investments and maximize adoption and value realization from analytics, AI and automation capabilities.

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  Manage platform budgets, strategic vendors and delivery partners, providing executive oversight of performance, risks, financials and strategic outcomes.

• SAP certifications in SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP S/4HANA or SAP BTP preferred.

• Microsoft certifications in Azure Data & AI, Power BI, Data Engineering or AI solutions preferred.

• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMP or equivalent project/program management certifications desirable.

• ITIL Foundation (or higher) certification and experience operating enterprise-scale service management models preferred.

• AI, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture or Data Governance certifications desirable.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.

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