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This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.\nOur HR Digital & Tech team transforms how GSK attracts, develops, and retains talent through innovative technology solutions. From managing global HR platforms to delivering data-driven insights, this function ensures our people have the tools and experiences they need to thrive. Partnering closely with HR business teams, we create solutions that simplify processes, enhance employee engagement, and enable strategic workforce planning. If you’re passionate about technology that empowers people, this is where you can make an impact.\nJob Purpose:\nThe Associate Director, Product Owner - Development & Integration is responsible for maximising the value of their HR Product portfolio (MCP, APIs, Satellite Apps, SuccessFactors Integration ecosystem) by translating business needs into a prioritised backlog and leading delivery across the HR product lifecycle, within strategic and financial guardrails set by the SD Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech and VP of HR Digital & Tech. They work closely with business stakeholders to define outcomes and ensure delivered functionality is usable, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to product strategy. The Technical Development & Integration Product Owner guides Associate Product Owners and works with delivery teams to ensure requirements are clear, value-driven, and data-informed, while overseeing iterative delivery that improves product performance, adoption, and operational readiness.\nThis role operates under GSK's \"Performance with Choice\" hybrid working approach, typically expecting 2-3 days per week in the office, with the specific pattern agreed between the successful candidate and their manager based on role and team needs.\nKey Responsibilities:\nPartner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities, within guardrails set by the SD, Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech and VP of HR Digital & Tech.\nOwn and manage the Product backlog (e.g. Jira, ADO etc), ensuring requirements (e.g., epics, features, user stories) are well-defined and supported by minimum data inputs (e.g., cost drivers, user volumes, risk/sensitivity, process impact, dependencies).\nMake prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity, escalating only where strategic trade-offs are required by the SD, Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech and VP of HR Digital & Tech.\nLead the Product team’s delivery activities, guiding Engineers, Architects, and Testers to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to architectural standards.\nDrive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist covering support model requirements, training needs, continuity planning, configuration/runbook documentation, release notes, and user onboarding.\nDefine and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time/throughput, stability/defects, UX signals (e.g., CSAT, SUS, completion rates), and support effort; use performance insights to drive continuous improvement.\nEnsure product changes required security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes (GXP), obtaining approvals from relevant SMEs where required.\nSupport Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies, contract/interface impacts, and sequencing needs to support interoperability and consistent business outcomes.\nAct as an escalation point for the HR Product team and business users on functional product issues, guiding decisions within agreed financial, risk, and architectural guardrails set by the SD, Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech and VP of HR Digital & Tech.\nContribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product, promoting agile (i.e. SaFe, Scrum etc), iterative, value-driven, and data-led ways of working, including meaningful measurement of benefits and operational impact.\nLead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working, role-modelling responsible use and follow GSK’s Responsible AI, privacy and security requirements.\nRequired Skills & Qualifications:\nBachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience.\n15 to 19 years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.\nProven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements (e.g., epics, features, user stories) and managing a product backlog.\nExperience working directly with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible, value-led technology changes.\nDemonstrated ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value, process impact, risk, cost, and technology constraints.\nExperience leading delivery teams or analysts through the product lifecycle, from refinement and design through testing, release, and adoption.\nFamiliarity with enterprise governance requirements such as change control, security, data protection, and regulatory/compliance considerations.\nExposure to continuous improvement approaches (e.g., automation, process simplification, user-centred enhancements) that uplift product adoption, stability, or user experience.\nExperience working within agile delivery environments and using iterative planning, delivery, and release practices.\nIndustry certifications highly desirable (e.g. Agile Methodologies, CPM).\nPreferred Skills:\nStrong communication and influencing skills, able to explain technology constraints clearly and support stakeholders in making informed product decisions.\nSkilled in coaching and guiding Associate Product Owners and delivery team members to ensure requirements, documentation, and solutions meet business needs and compliance expectations.\nAble to interpret business processes, user feedback, and operational data to identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, and improved user experience.\nComfortable working within structured governance, security, and data protection requirements, ensuring product changes remain controlled, supportable, and compliant.\nStrong analytical mindset, able to weigh value, risk, complexity, and cost to make prioritisation decisions and sequence backlog items appropriately.\nAbility to work in a very fast-paced and fluid environment\nComfortable with ambiguity and change\n Skills\nAutomation, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Design Thinking, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Systems Integration, Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Integration Engineering, Microarchitecture, Microservices Architecture, Phenom (Platform), Product Strategies, SAP SuccessFactors, Services Management, Technical Designs, Workday Extend Development, Workday HCMWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK 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.\nPeople 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.\nInclusion at GSK:\nAs an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.\nPlease contact our Recruitment Team at  to discuss your needs.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. 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