Sr. Change Manager - GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance)

Job description

Site Name: UK - London - Brentford
Posted Date: Apr 29 2024
We're excited to be moving to our vibrant new home on New Oxford Street in central London from the end of June 2024. At GSK HQ, we're building an energising space where we can connect, collaborate and get ahead of disease together. Designed especially for us, it'll be one of the healthiest workplaces in the world, with best-in-class tech and bright, light spaces to help us thrive.

Role :Senior Change Manager - GRC ( Governance, Risk and Compliance )

Job Purpose:

GSK Digital and Tech is looking for an experienced, organised, self-driven, and results-oriented technology OCM manager to lead the various process improvement initiatives to help streamline and simplify the current IT Management System (ITMS), Smart Controls, Tech Policies and Procedures. As part of the GRC Transformation programme, you will contribute to GSK's objective to increase speed and agility of the business and improve the compliance and quality culture across Tech.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with appropriate leaders and project sponsors to understand OCM demands and requirements
• Ensure appropriate resource allocation and onboarding supplementary resources via Strategic Partners for support of global work packages
• Lead a matrix team to deliver solutions and processes in support of project objectives and requirements - leading the project team and motivation all team members with clear direction and communication
• Manage OCM plans, budget, risks and issues, calling out to senior management when appropriate
• Identify and actively monitor delivery of external dependencies
• Work closely with other GSK Tech groups to ensure adequate resources are deployed to ensure delivery
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across Tech to identify appropriate resourcing plans, leveraging both internal resources and contracting with strategic partners to deliver defined deliverables
• Ensure effective communications planning, leadership identification and engagement, regular status reporting to key business leaders, both within GRC (internal) and with the appropriate programme (customer)
• Build close working relationships with customers, engineering teams and relevant business contacts to ensure confidence is built and maintained, and all parties are informed and engaged during the project
• Establishes strategic direction in assigned area, by influencing and negotiating successful outcomes with senior leaders inside and outside of GRC (at SVP, VP and Tech LT levels)
• Recommends and manages intelligent risk taking, with high transparency and with a clear willingness to be held accountable
• Supports leadership address high risk, high impact situations with clear analysis, high transparency and a sense of partnership, even if faced with significant adversity or major obstacles

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Hands on experience in delivering large process improvement related projects in large scale global Life Sciences
• Significant demonstrable experience delivering complex projects/programmes
• Experience with managing project schedules, finances, risks and issues
• Ability to quickly grasp technical topics, particularly in the bot migration space in sufficient detail to effectively communicate with customers and Tech delivery teams
• Project governance and experience with Agile standards and procedures
• Completion of Project Management or Agile Training Curriculum
• Experience of managing matrix teams
• Experience of senior leader management

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• High tenacity in resolving and removing strategic obstructions and difficulties, so as to achieve the best strategic results in a timely manner
• Ability to make decisions as these have a direct impact on the organization's ability to achieve major organizational objectives or long-range goals and could jeopardize future business activity across a number of key areas in the organization if unsuccessful
• Ability and willingness to be flexible, adapting to the demands of the customers.
• Technical knowledge to understand projects and trade-off choice
• Lean Sigma

Job Application end date : 8th May 2024

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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