At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
Position Summary
The Head Clinical IHD Data Product Strategy will lead the end-to-end lifecycle of clinical and individual human data (IHD) across R&D, owning strategy, operating model and product vision so that governed human data accelerates science instead of slowing it down. You will treat the lifecycle as a product, embedding consent, purpose limitation and protection controls that travel with the data, policy-as-code guardrails built directly into pipelines, and audit-ready evidence generated by design. You will connect IHD governance into privacy, Responsible AI and the broader R&D data platform ecosystem, ensuring compliant, ethical, AI-enabled use and reuse becomes a property of the system rather than a late-stage check.
You will lead a small specialist team and partner closely with Disease Area and R&D teams, Legal, Privacy, Quality, Tech and other DVO (Data Value Office) pillars to continuously automate, scale and optimise the clinical data lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set and continuously refine the end-to-end clinical and individual human data lifecycle strategy and operating model, aligned to R&D priorities and regulation, with strong senior leadership backing.
- Own the clinical IHD data product strategy and experience, defining data product standards and co-designing catalogues, APIs and self-service tooling with platform and engineering partners, including performance and guardrail metrics.
- Hold accountability for how clinical and IHD moves through its full lifecycle (acquisition to archive), ensuring clear ownership, robust controls, demonstrable compliance and lifecycle effectiveness metrics.
- Lead change, adoption and advocacy across R&D and the enterprise, turning lifecycle designs into everyday practice and representing GSK externally on human data governance and responsible reuse.
- Enhance, scale and connect the IHD process into a standardised, automated operating model, integrating privacy, Responsible AI and R&D data platforms so consent, purpose and protection controls travel with the data.
- Embed automated, tech-enabled compliance by working with platform and engineering teams to build guardrails, policy-as-code and audit-ready workflows directly into data pipelines.
- Drive innovation and team development, building AI-enabled stewardship and risk capabilities while leading and coaching a specialist team in automation, privacy-enhancing technology and responsible data practice.
*Why you?*
Basic Qualifications:
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals
- Bachelor’s degree in data management, Computer Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Life Sciences or a related field.
- Broad working knowledge of clinical development processes and the R&D data lifecycle.
- Proven experience in data governance, data management and the delivery of complex, cross-functional data programmes.
- Proven experience of GxP, data privacy and regulatory compliance requirements (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA, FDA/EMA expectations).
- Strong leadership, line management and stakeholder engagement skills, with excellent written and verbal communication.
- Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement and innovation in an operational process environment.
Preferred QualificationIf you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus
- Master’s degree in Data Management, Computer Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Life Sciences or a related field
- Certification in data governance or data management frameworks (e.g. DAMA/DMBOK, DCAM, EDM Council) preferred.
- Exposure to AI governance, responsible AI or machine learning operations (e.g. AI ethics programmes, MLOps/LLMOps certification) preferred.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Cloud Computing, Data Analysis, Database Design, Data Modeling, Data Privacy, Data Quality Assessments, Data Security, Data Virtualization, Data Warehousing (DW), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Machine Learning (ML), Metadata Management, Python (Programming Language)
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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.
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at [UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com](mailto:UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com) where you can also request a call.
Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the [Link](https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/locations/united-kingdom/) where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at [https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/](https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/)
We are 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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
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. Find out more on our [career site](http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/careers/).
