Research Technologies Capability Lead

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12.08.2025

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26.09.2025

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Site Name: USA – Pennsylvania – Upper Providence, Stevenage
Posted Date: Jul 21 2025

About Research Technologies at GSK:
Research Technologies (RTech) at GSK plays a pivotal role in driving pharmaceutical innovation. The organization is responsible for discovering new targets, advancing the early pipeline up to First Dose in Humans (FDIH), and developing transformative technologies for drug discovery. With over 1,400 full-time employees (FTE), RTech is essential to positioning GSK as a key competitor in the pharmaceutical industry.

This role, Senior Director, Capabilities Lead – Research Technologies , is a strategic leadership position tasked with enhancing the capabilities and competencies of the RTech workforce to ensure sustained excellence and innovation. Through fostering a learning culture, developing robust training programs, and aligning skill sets to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving drug discovery landscape, this role will help build a competitive advantage for GSK.

Key Responsibilities:

Capability Development and Training:

• Lead training efforts and provide external benchmarking to grow capabilities across RTech.

• Develop curricula focused on areas such as technology use, people development, skill enhancement, pipeline progression, and industry trends.

• Leverage existing GSK leadership programs to drive employee development.

External Landscape Analysis:

• Continuously scan the external landscape for emerging trends, capabilities, and best practices.

• Identify technical training programs and collaborate with external and internal faculty to deliver these programs.

• Develop and maintain an external professional network and establish a competitive technical accreditation system.

Design and Implementation of Training Materials:

• Create and execute training materials and tools that align with external and local best practices.

• Partner with HR, R&D Ethics and Compliance, and global learning functions to integrate learning principles and enterprise-wide frameworks (e.g., leadership and coaching).

Capability Framework Management:

• Maintain and update the Capability Framework to ensure it reflects required competencies, proficiencies, and performance expectations for individual development.

Continuous Improvement:

• Evaluate programs and interventions to drive continuous improvement.

• Develop metrics to measure the effectiveness of training and ensure alignment with strategic goals.

Enhancing Ways of Working:

• Develop frameworks to clarify job responsibilities across RTech skill groups.

• Establish strategies to adapt to a rapidly evolving drug discovery environment driven by AI, machine learning (AIML), and data innovation.

Basic Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (PhD, MSc or equivalent) in a relevant scientific or technical field.

• 12+ years in pharmaceutical R&D, with a focus on capability development, training, and organizational change.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to lead large-scale initiatives and collaborate across diverse teams and functions.

• Experience or ability to build complex training and skills-based programs.

• Familiarity with AIML, data-driven drug discovery, and emerging technologies in the pharmaceutical industry.

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 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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