Senior Director, Discovery Data Sciences

Discovery Data Sciences Group Leader

Do you share a desire to advance scientific knowledge and harness the revolution in data, automation and predictive sciences to deliver measurable impacts on the success and progression of GSK's medicine discovery portfolio?

The Data, Automation, and Predictive Sciences (DAPS) function of GSK Research Technologies focuses on large-scale data generation, curation, analysis, and prediction to increase the Probability of Technical and Regulatory Success (PTRS) of assets and unlock upper quartile ambitions.

Collaboration is key, as DAPS will only be successful by working in close partnership with matrix teams within Research Technologies functions, Research Units (all therapeutic areas), the Onyx Research Data Platform and Quality Engineering and Labs (QEL) teams (R&D Digital & Tech (RDDT)), R&D AIML, and Risk & Compliance.

We are seeking a dynamic scientific leader to direct our new Discovery Data Sciences (DDS) group, a team dedicated to accelerating the discovery of new medicines for patients. This role is pivotal in delivering transformative computational and data science solutions directly to our drug discovery portfolio. You will lead a unified team that partners deeply with research units across Research Technologies (RTech) to solve their most critical scientific challenges.

A key focus will be on driving our portfolio and priority technology builds, ensuring that our most advanced predictive models and platforms are developed and deployed to maximize scientific impact.

As the leader of the new Discovery Data Sciences group, you will direct a core component of the DAPS mission. Your primary responsibility is to forge a single, cohesive team from our specialized data science groups that support biologics, genomics, discovery biology, and more. This unified group will serve as the predictive engine for R&D, enabling our vision of automated discoveryincluding Lab-in-an-Automated-Loop (LIAL) frameworksby providing the intelligence that powers the experimental cycle. Success will be achieved through deep collaboration with your peer teams across DAPS, including Automation, Cheminformatics, Protein Design & Informatics, the Research Data Office, and Discovery Engineering & Integration.

This position is based 2-3 days per week at a GSK R&D site in the USA (Upper Providence, PA; or Cambridge Tech Square, MA), or in the UK (Stevenage).

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary data science partner to research line leaders within RTech, embedding your team to directly support portfolio projects across all therapeutic modalities.
• Translate pressing scientific challenges from the pipeline into actionable computational strategies and deliver solutions that accelerate decision-making and increase the probability of success.
• Ensure that data and predictive insights are delivered accessibly and interpretably, empowering researchers to make timely, data-driven decisions within their portfolio campaigns.
• Establish robust metrics to track the impact of predictive models and computational approaches on pipeline progression.

Strategic Vision & Organizational Architecture

Platform & Technology Leadership

Data Asset & Governance Leadership

AI / ML Innovation & Research Leadership

Talent & Culture Development

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications & Skills