VP, Head of Analytical Science

The VP, Analytical Science & Technology, is accountable for leading the global Analytical Science and Technology organization in MSAT, Global Supply Chain (GSC), to provide enterprise-wide (biopharma, small molecule, vaccine) analytical support and to integrate specialist analytical science capabilities that support quality control (QC), deeper characterization, and comparability. In addition, the role is accountable for driving innovation and modernization of analytical capabilities, industrializing new analytical technologies, implementing platform analyses and automation into modern QC, and establishing an updated regulatory framework for new product introductions (NPIs) and existing commercial projects in GSC.

This role manages the integration and translation of analytical and materials science outputs from R&D into GSC. It ensures late‑phase NPI assets have robust analytical and materials strategies that meet product lifecycle needs, and uses these insights to shape the strategic direction of R&D. It is also accountable for setting the strategic direction and developing analytical and materials science capability across the GSC network, and for overseeing the global rollout and implementation of business‑critical standards, including method and specification alignment, comparability protocol best practices, and the material risk assessment process across GSC.

Finally, the VP ensures the generation of critical data to support control strategies and to ensure quality, safe medicines reach all our patients, and delivers excellence in quality analytical methods, data, and knowledge to enable key decisions during technology transfer to commercial manufacturing and to ensure supply of all critical products.

The global Analytical Science & Technology function comprises a global team of multi-disciplinary Analytical Science & Technology Leads (ASTLs), MSAT characterization hub leads, and scientists at different sites, whose core responsibilities include:

•  Provide global technical leadership for analytical method transfer, development and optimization, qualification, validation, troubleshooting and investigation, including evaluation of impacts on product stability, control and specification strategy.

•  Deliver decision-making guidance and direct testing support for biophysical, biochemical, biological, immunochemical and immunological characterizations, reflecting the complexity and intrinsic heterogeneity of monoclonal antibodies and antibody-related products, and provide the technologies and criteria used to characterize them.

•  Provide strategic decision-making and direct testing for physical properties testing, spectroscopy, imaging, surface analysis and materials science characterization of established and new small-molecule portfolios.

•  Develop analytical methods for critical quality attributes and product characterization and provide strategic guidance across-product for critical quality attribute assessment, control strategy, specification setting and comparability criteria.

•  Present strategic recommendations across the analytical network and ensure the team of ASTLs serve as key scientific and technical representatives on cross-functional teams (CMC, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, R&D, etc.).

•  Develop analytical testing plans for internal laboratories or for contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs) and provide technical oversight for outsourced testing.

•  Build strong connections to the GSK Global Supply Chain regulatory and technical agenda and business interests by ensuring operational excellence while introducing new ways of working and interactions through the MSAT hubs and all supporting organisations.

•  Develop comprehensive product characterization packages to support regulatory filings and actively support GSK Global Supply Chain positions with EU, US and other regulatory authorities as technical expert leaders.

Key Responsibilities in Detail

•  Lead and deliver complex, business-critical projects across multiple supply chains and sites, requiring the ability to lead in an environment with a high degree of change and uncertainty.

•  Lead and develop a large, high-performing team of multi-disciplinary Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT) team of subject-matter experts to deliver business-critical projects (more than 100 per year) with continuously changing priorities and deadlines, to avoid significant supply and patient risks.

•  Serve as a core