Senior Product Manager Omics

The Onyx Research Data Tech organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation data experience for GSK’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”.
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent.
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale to unlock the value of our combined data assets and predictions in real-time.

Onyx Product Management is at the heart of our mission, ensuring that everything from our infrastructure, to platforms, to end-user facing data assets and environments is designed to maximize our impact on R&D. The Product Management team partners with R&D stakeholders and Onyx leadership to develop a strategic roadmap for all customer-facing aspects of Onyx, including data assets, ontology, Knowledge Graph / semantic search, data / computing / analysis platforms, and data-powered applications.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Product Manager who will be accountable for designing and delivering the road map for tech products that enable all aspects of Multiomics project support within GSK Research & Development (R&D) that spans target discovery. The role will be pivotal in supercharging the Multiomics data capability with a fit-for-purpose cross-departmental strategy aligned to an enterprise level strategy. The Product Manager will enhance the current data-driven decision-making capability within Target Discovery and ensure that the delivery of digital and data solutions will bring the highest value to the partner business units with improved portfolio delivery and enhanced research productivity.

In this role you will:

• Partner closely with scientists from Target Discovery, Omics Technology, and the broader Research Technologies business unit in R&D, while also partnering with Onyx’s engineering teams (DevOps and Infrastructure, AI/ML analysis and computing platform, data & knowledge platform, data engineering, UI/UX engineering), along with the Onyx portfolio management team, to deliver industry-leading data products and solutions to accelerate drug discovery.
• Drive the product roadmap, guide product development initiatives, and ensure the successful launch and adoption of Multiomics products.
• Facilitate joint planning and execution of the product roadmap, ensuring a balance between strategic development and customer-facing deliverables. You will also play a key role in devising, tracking, and publicizing metrics that measure the impact and performance of Onyx data products.

More specifically, the Senior Product Manager for NCS will:

• Manage and support the development of multiomics platforms by adding AI/ML features, improving data connections, and making it easier for users. This will enable the business to use legacy and current portfolio Data as an Asset for making data driven decisions in drug discovery.
• Manage the cloud migration of vendor and internally developed applications/products and code developed for mathematical models by GSK scientists to ensure they are maintained/supported and are available to deliver safety evaluations to projects in Discovery.

Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Bachelors’ degree within Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with DevOps and/or cloud infrastructure product development or management.
• Technical Knowledge of Omics (Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, cellular imaging, Spatial omics, etc.), Drug Discovery, Computational Biology, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics.
• Experience in product management, with a focus on Omics (Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, cellular imaging, Spatial omics, etc.), drug discovery or scientific product development with a proven track record of successfully launching and managing high-stake, business-critical scientific products spanning multiple geographies and time zones.
• Significant experience in Agile program/project management, including the use of associated tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Master’s degree or PhD within Multiomics, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Data Science, Computer Science/Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Strong leadership abilities and a self-driven, proactive approach.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 28th April 2025 (COB)

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