Director, Clinical Supply Chain Systems

GSK
Stevenage, United Kingdom
2 days ago
£80,000 – £120,000 pa

Salary

£80,000 – £120,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Director
Education
Degree
Posted
5 May 2026 (2 days ago)

At GSK, theClinical Manufacturing & Supply Chain (CMSC) organization is responsible for the enterprise-wide delivery of GMP clinical manufacturing for the small and large molecule medicines pipeline, and cross modality clinical supply chain management, labelling, packaging and distribution for the R&D vaccines and medicines

The Clinical Supply Systems function within CMSC is dedicated to deploying and supporting innovative digital technologies and systems that advance clinical supply chain management. This includes maintaining the current systems roadmap and ensuring the modernization of systems aligns with business strategy to drive automation, leverage data for enhanced insights, and improve overall efficiency.

Position Summary

Provide leadership for a team of business professionals in the development, deployment, support, and maintenance of key IT systems used in the R&D clinical supply chain. You will work closely with clinical operations, supply planning, manufacturing, quality, IT and external partners. This role acts as a bridge between business objectives and system capabilities, ensuring CSMC delivers measurable outcomes, aligns with enterprise priorities and R&D objectives in delivering portfolio acceleration and innovation.


Responsibilities

  • Ensure systems are developed, deployed, supported, and maintained in accordance with GSK policies & procedures.
  • Ensure systems & supporting documentation are maintained in a constant state of inspection readiness.
  • Ensure team members are adequately trained and are performing effectively to develop, deploy, support, and maintain these systems.
  • Ensure these systems remain aligned to current business strategies and current regulatory requirements.
  • Provide effective leadership in support of quality deviations & investigations and system outages.
  • Develop effective networks with GSK R&D Tech and system vendors.
  • Escalate system risks when identified. · Ensure EHS risks are identified & mitigated
  • Responsibilities: List activities that comprise the job including aspects of budget control, people management,
  • Technical activities, health & safety, GMP and individual specific activities.
  • Ensure systems are developed, deployed, supported, and maintained in accordance with GSK policies & procedures.
  • Ensure systems & supporting documentation are maintained in a constant state of inspection readiness.
  • Ensure team members are adequately trained and are performing effectively to develop, deploy, support and maintain these systems.
  • Ensure these systems remain aligned to current business strategies and current regulatory requirements.
  • Provide effective leadership in support of quality deviations & investigations and system outages.
  • Develop effective networks with GSK R&D Tech and system vendors.
  • Escalate system risks when identified.
  • Ensure EHS risks are identified & mitigated

Basic Qualifications
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, /Data engineer/engineering related field
  • 8+ years of experience in product management, system access with 6+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or supply chain management
  • Relevant pharmaceutical/biotech or similar industry experience.
  • 5+ years' operational experience with the R&D clinical supply chain in following technologies: Signant Health Systems: PMD/SSF/SSP, RTSM, SAP/ERP, Veeva CTMS
  • 8+ years of professional experience in Product Ownership or Product Management.
  • Proficiency with Jira/Confluence and AHA
  • Experience developing, deploying, supporting, and maintaining IT systems in a regulated environment.
  • Experience managing external vendors.


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

  • Advanced degree in supply chain, engineering, life sciences, business or related discipline.
  • Hands-on experience with clinical supply platforms, warehouse management systems or serialization solutions.
  • Deep knowledge of supply chain systems data models and business contexts.
  • Experience managing vendors and contracts for outsourced supply or technology services.
  • Knowledge of global clinical supply regulations and good distribution practices.
  • Practical skills in data analytics, dashboards or BI tools to drive improvements.
  • Comfortable working in hybrid environments with distributed teams and flexible collaboration.
  • Proven ability to lead and influence teams without direct authority


Location and working model
This role is based in the United States and is hybrid. The role expects an on-site presence approximately 2–3 days per week. We will discuss flexibility during the hiring process.

How to apply
If you are excited by the chance to lead clinical supply systems that enable clinical trials at scale, we want to hear from you. Please apply and tell us how your experience and approach will help our teams deliver for patients.

Closing Date for applications is 19th May

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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.

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