Vp, Head of Development Performance

**Site Name**: UK - London - New Oxford Street, Belgium-Wavre, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
**Posted Date**: Aug 4 2025

**VP, Head of Development Performance**

**Business Introduction**
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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**Position Summary**

Are you ready to drive operational excellence and lead transformative change in a global biopharma organisation?

At GSK, we are seeking an experienced and visionary leader to join us as the **Vice President, Head of Development Performance**.

This critical leadership role will focus on optimising pipeline delivery, enhancing operational effectiveness, and driving strategic transformation across the Development organisation. Acting as a key advisor and strategic partner to the SVP of Development, you will leverage advanced data and analytics to generate actionable insights, establish performance metrics, and implement transformative programs that accelerate access to medicines and vaccines for patients worldwide.

**Responsibilities**
- ** Operational Excellence**: Deploy and manage business operations capabilities to support the Development organisation, driving improved processes and performance.
- ** Performance Monitoring**: Use data and analytics to generate insights, establish metrics/KPIs, and report on performance across Development. Facilitate decision-making and risk mitigation at governance frameworks involving R&D leadership and the Global Leadership Team (GLT).
- ** Control Tower Leadership**: Lead a cross-development control tower to optimise pipeline delivery and operations, collaborating closely with relevant teams.
- ** Outsourcing Coordination**: Drive and oversee outsourcing efforts across R&D, ensuring alignment and efficiency.
- ** Strategic Transformation Programs**: Lead implementation and engagement for cross-development strategic transformative programs, ensuring alignment and execution across the organisation.
- ** Data-Driven Insights**: Consolidate data from cross-functions into a real-time, interactive performance system, driving operational excellence and informed decision-making.
- ** Strategic partnering**: Act as a strategic advisor and partner to the SVP Development, ensuring effective leadership, execution, and alignment of priorities.
- ** Stakeholder Collaboration**: Build strong partnerships across functions and geographies, identifying operational challenges and implementing solutions.
- ** Change Leadership**: Champion organisational transformation and adoption of best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

**Qualifications/Skills**

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Advanced degree in a scientific, business, or operational discipline.
- Substantial pharmaceutical R&D or related pharma industry experience
- Expertise in leveraging data and analytics to monitor and improve performance in complex, matrixed environments.
- Proven track record of leading multi-cultural organisations and driving organisational change and transformation.

**Preferred Qualifications**:
You will stand out if you also bring the following:

- Advanced scientific degree
- Strong strategic analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with senior leadership and influence decision-making in complex and ambiguous environments.
- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills.
- High energy, creativity, and a commitment to delivering results.

**Work Location**:
This role is based in the United Kingdom, United States or Belgium and offers a hybrid working model

Join us in this impactful leadership role to help GSK deliver on its mission to get ahead of disease together.

**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 disease